RE: Newbie install help
I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit),
would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than
buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them?
Thanks,
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:faheem@email.unc.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, 23 February 2002 5 59
> To: Paul McKinley
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Newbie install help
>
>
>
> On 23 Feb 2002, Paul McKinley wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its
not
> > flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in
order to
> > get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with
1GB
> > RAM. I need no sound, I do need Ethernet drivers, my cards are
Kingston
> > KNE100TX, and AMD PCnet. I need a bare minimum kernel with which I
can
> > build the 2.4.17 kernel; I therefore need GCC and the kernel
package. I
> > need not have X to begin with, just be able to get it once the
kernel is
> > booted.
> >
> > My mainboard is ASUS A7V 133, my harddisks are on a Promise ATA100
RAID
> > controller and two are in RAID-0, two are in RAID-1. My cdrom drives
are
> > on the standard IDE controllers.
>
> I would have thought that the best thing to so was to burn Debian CDs.
It
> sounds like you will need woody. There are unofficial woody CD images;
> check out www.debian.org/CD. Of course you will need access to a CD
burner
> and a fast connection, but you can also buy the CDs.
>
> Keeping Woody up to date over a slow non flat rate connection would be
a
> drag, though. If you have somewhere with a fast connection, perhaps
you
> can take it there to be updated periodically.
>
> > I have Windows 2000 (SP2) installed already, so ideally would like
to
> > dualboot. I have had some bad experiences with Linux installers
> > overwriting the windows bootloader, how do I avoid this?
>
> I'd use grub. Easy to use, but be careful to modify menu.lst before
you
> reboot; read the documentation carefully. The Debian packages doesn't
> create quite the right menu.lst automatically. Grub will write over
the
> MBR but you should be able to boot Windows anyway. My understanding is
> that it hands over the booting process to the Windows bootloader.
This is
> called chainloading. Check out the documentation. The default for
Windows
> generated in menu.list always works for me, but note that I've always
had
> Windows installed in the first partition. I think it is a little bit
more
> complicated (but not much) if you don't have Windows installed in the
> first partition.
>
> Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
>
>
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