SV: HELP!!!
Hi Kyle
Im a newbie too! I've got almost the same problem as you do. But: are you
installing from a CD? You might want to try specifying the path to the cd
when using the dselect command.
There seems (from my limited experience w/ dos and Linux) to be a problem w/
the partition table, some little flag or toggle must have gone wrong. I
tried a couple of times before it worked. If you still have a dos/windows
section (partition) on your harddisk, you should have three: one which is
dos (usually /dev/hda1) and two for Linux: a file system partition (e.g.
/dev/hda2) (which is where you store your stuff) and a swap partition (e.g.
/dev/hda3). This is the way it worked for me. (I had to install the thing
from the dos partition, since the machine aint got no cd-drive).
>From what I can gather from various sources of information, though I haven't
gotten as far as to installing the lot, it seems that linux is really "just"
a unix-like os, and if you want a graphical interface, you have to install
it. I believe it's called X-windows or just X. There is supposed to be both
win and mac emulators out there too.
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Kyle Landon [SMTP:sculptors1@hotmail.com]
> Sendt: 29. maj 1999 09:03
> Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Emne: HELP!!!
>
> Hi all,
>
> First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all
>
> files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working.
> I
> can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program. I cannot
>
> seem to do much at the $. I run dselect with my root account but cannot
> find the packages.cd. I thought Debian had a graphical interface. What
> might I be doing or have done that is wrong? I get the error message
> /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kyle
>
>
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