Re: stymied by Deb, went FreeBSD instead
i have 13gb hd and have installed FreeBSD, Mandrake, and SuSE...but the best
for me is Debian/Stormix. I use Partion Magig to create the linux ext2 and
swap.
Then go to Stormix.com and d/l the newest iso named hail. Its really Debian
potato with 2.16 kernel and helix-gnome for really good measure.
I burned the iso cd in FreeBSD with burncd. Then set your bios to boot from cd
and boot the Debian/stormix. I think Stormix has the easiest installer . You
can easily select the packages you want installed or just take the
default--about 500 pkgs and 600mb.
Debian/stormix installer recognized my sound card and ethernet card. It set up
my monitor in X just by clicking on the model number. I've done it the long way
with XF86Config and modprobing the sound etc.....this will get you up on the
net with sound in less than 20-30 minutes.
I then use Debian apt-get and dselect to add packages after the install but i
have to tell you that Stormix package mgr which is a graphical front end for
apt-get is much easier to use especially in selecting available packages , and
it tells me I have 525 pks currently installed from a grand total of 4360
available from my sources list which is also easier to edit with stormix pkg
mgr.
I am using Gnome/Sawfish with the Helix gnome updates which as i said is in
the base Debian/stormix install and its a pretty amazing desktop. I have left
FreeBSD on my hd but Debian is the what i like.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, "Greg Strockbine." wrote:
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:26:41 -0700 (PDT)
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: "Greg Strockbine." <gstrock@hitachi-hkis.com>
> Subject: stymied by Deb, went FreeBSD instead
>
> I have a 14 gig drive I wanted to devote
> entirely to Debian Linux or FreeBSD.
>
> I made the Deb boot floppies, booted up,
> and got stymied at the Partition hard disk
> step in `cfdisk'.
>
> It showed me the whole disk, which at the time
> had FreeBSD 3.1 on it.
>
> I figured I needed partitions for
> root = 100 Mb
> swap = 512 Mb
> /usr = rest of disk
>
> so.... I couldn't figure out how to size the
> partition. Did I need to make a Linux Partition
> first, then size that. And why does the Linux
> Swap partition appear as a seperate entity in
> cfdisk->type list?
>
> Gave up. Went over to FreeBSD, made 2 floppies, followed
> steps, defaults for everything including partitioning.
> Started a network install, went to
> bed, woke up and rebooted into FreeBSD 4.1.
>
> with Debian I couldn't figure out how to go.
> I copied a bunch of files onto a DOS partition on
> a second drive in my machine, not the one I wanted
> Linux installed on. Got confused.
>
> Then decided to make a CD-image, but never finished.
>
> Then while scanning the documentation,
> found something that said you could do a network
> install and you only needed 2 floppies. But then
> I thought I remembered reading on the mail list
> that its not supported.
>
> plus in the install manual for Debian 2.2, it
> says you probably will need 2-3 gigs for /var
> so you can do an `apt' update in the future.
> what's that all about??
>
> After all this, I'm still interested in installing
> Debian Linux. I guess I just need to experiment more.
>
> hmmm.... I have partition magic 4.x, and it lets me
> created a Linux extended partition - what's that?
> Can I use that?
>
> running out of midnight oil
> - greg strockbine
>
>
>
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