Re: Questions i can't answer
At 06:58 AM 12/12/00, you wrote:
>Ok here goes. I am an experienced PC user. I've been into it since the days
>of 486SX chips. I have had in interest in Linux for quite some time, but
>have always hit serious walls when trying to get it set up. I have tried
>Caldera's distro, about 2 years ago on a 486 and found it basically useless.
>I've tried Corel's distro, but got so ticked trying to get X running
>properly that I gave up. Now for the first time I am trying Debian. I now
>have a cable connection to the internet, so winmodem support is no longer an
>issue as i can just use direct TCP/IP.
>
>I have partitioned a separate physical disk into 3 partitions: /hdb1 is 3GB
>for my root. /hdb5 is 800MB for /usr, and /hdb6 is 128MB for swap. My
>primary OS is Win2k Pro. I want to be able to dual-boot when it's all said
>and done, which is why i've used 2 physical disks to try to keep things sep.
>and clean.
>
>I have downloaded the latest disribution and burned it to CD. When i try to
>install debian however (after the partitioning/keyboard steps) it says it
>cannot find the files it needs on the CD in /images-1.44/. the directory
>exists, and the files should be there as i have not modified the structure.
>My rescue and root disks work ok. I'm using the "vanilla" package.
>
>First: is this partition scheme OK before i continue?
Discussions of partitioning go on and one, but you definitely want a swap
partition. With this much space you almost certainly want a /home partition
for your data to minimize risk of loss and ease of upgrading. This is more
important that /usr if you want to minimize the number of partitions.
>Second: will dual booting be easy to accomplish? if so, how?
Shouldn't be too hard. Suggest looking at Michael K. Johnson's 1996 article
in Linux Journal, for specifics, online at
http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue27/1275.html
But I don't know about Win2k.
>Third: Why can't it find the files?
Can't help with this.
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