A NEWBIE inquiry......
Hey folks, this is the LURKER again with an inquiry on installs on the same
drive. I purchased a copy of "Mandrakesoft?'s Linux® Mandrake©" v7.0/w 3
CD's (installation disc #1, source disc #2 and extra #3) about a year
ago. To make a long story longer, NOT really, there were some major
problems I had to deal with here and had to put it to one side. Well about
2 weeks ago I saw a copy of "SAMS Installing Debian GNU/Linux®" with one CD
v2.1. Could NOT pass this up so I purchased it to learn as much as
possible about these two systems.
I am running Windows SE 98+! V4.10.2222a on a PCChips PC100 MBD/w AMD K6 II
3D 400meg, 163.48meg RAM, USR 56k INT MDM plus a PCTEL WinModem (that is
NOT being used at this time), two 8.4 gig IDE H/D's. One is setup to run
WinBlows 98 the other I have set to 7 partitions, three for Debian v2.1 and
three for Mandrake v7.0, there are 6 of them the other is just FREE
SPACE. Hope to be able to access that from which ever one needs added space.
Now my question is what would I have to do to set these up so I can access
one from the other? I can now access the WinBlows from Mandrake, have NOT
set things so I can do that from Deb just yet. The other is how can I get
both of them to acknowledge my USR MDM, neither one will recognize it and
MD never has even from my first install? I know there are HOWTO's and many
other MAN pages and various other thingys, I spend most of a day just
attempting to keep up with these messages. THE END. This has gone on far
enough, I am going to give you the chance to do what most people DREAM of
being able to do, TELL ME WHERE TO GO to reach my END.
ONE more for the ROAD, please.....where is a GOOD place for a NEWBIE that
is NOT a programmer nor very familiar with UNIX or Linux to learn how to
get started. I Know READ, READ, READ, etcetera, at 61 I do NOT have that
much time left to do all of that.
TIA,
don Hodges
odak@stic.net
San Antonio, Texas
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