Re: A NEWBIE inquiry......
On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:40, d wrote:
> 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
Greetz Don,
Good questions. I already seen prior posts to your query about the local LUG
and setting up /etc/fstab. I don't share any user space, only my swap space
when playing with other distros. You will be able to set up debian to access
both mandrakes drivespace and windoz drivespace. You will not be able to see
any linux drivespace from windoz however.
Need further info on your modem. If it's pci, best bet is it's not really
even a modem, but a win-modem. Forgetaboutit or start doing google search for
a linux driver that could support it. Externials really are nice and seem to
give the very least problems of them all, and only require a few minutes to
make dialup scripts to automate getting onto the internet. Here in debian
land, pppconfig (as root) is your friend.
The community college could be a good place too, but I'm concerned becuase
they typically base these classes on red hat, a non-free distro. Hopefully,
more schools will adopt the GNU code (like debian) and base courses on this
instead of ~... Not just distros, but the software packages too. I know in my
local college, CIS is based comletely on windoz *GASP*.. I have about a year
before I start the CIS training, and I hope beyond hope that it will no
longer be based on something as evil and vile as M$where. If not, then I will
have to either move or decide on alternate class work.
Good luck to you on your journeys, and post us with updates!
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