Re: Installing Debian
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:16:23 -0800 (PST) Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > Question I've always had regarding Debian install: why a _rescue_
> > disk when I'm doing a virgin install?
>
> Seemed intuitive enough when I switched from Windows four years
> ago...but that might just be because I read the instructions. (Though
> someone else in the lab that morning suggested they were rescuing you
> from the MS-Borg)
Well, I _did_ read the instructions, and I didn't explicitly see
where the rescue disk is the boot disk.
Back in the days when you regularly started the install with a
floppy, other distributions (read: RH) were clear that you initially
booted off the, well, _boot_ disk.
Only when I remembered tomsrtbt is a rescue disk did I realize that,
since (boot == rescue), that I should mentally s/rescue/boot/gc as
I read the manual.
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