Re: Installing Debian Linux the hard way...HELP!
Hmm. I don't know much about null modem cables. Too bad you don't have
CD drive handy, but anyway:
> man doesn't seem to work on my machine. ( I get bash: man: command not
> found)
man's not on the base disks, because the manpages themselves take up
quite a bit of space.
> Linux/UNIX book I could get from the Web so I can start to learn my way
"Running Linux", by Matt Walsh. Get it from O'Reilly Publishers,
www.ora.com. Good book. There's also a book out on running Debian
specifically, but I've not had a chance to read it yet.
> around this machine? and last ( for now) how can I set-up my second Hard
> Drive to boot into DOS from Linux?
Via lilo, the LInux LOader. It can be configured to give you a menu on
boot and let you choose between linux and dos and Win95 and OS/2 and
anything else you can think of and squeeze onto your drive. I can help
you here, but you can also hit the linux HOWTO's at
http://www.linux.org/help/howto.html -- they're written by people with
pretty solid knowledge, and they generally assume you don't really
understand what you're trying to do. :)
> to the users list but it seems they tend to forget that not everyone knows
> how to use commands like getty or stuff.
Righto.
Will
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