Re: Preparation for Debian Installatin
While all of this is true its only scratching the
surface. Thats just the basics. Kinda like bringing
your pencil to the test.
You also have to know how Debian 'thinks'. Worse yet
if you deal with Windoze all day long and have studied
Microsoft's way for a few years.
There are only a few places one needs to look within
Win32 to get it working. There are tons of commands,
programs, utils and worse yet configuration files
within Linux to get it working. Im sure most of this
is because Microsoft tries to hide much of this, but
nonetheless simply knowing the IRQ settings for the
sound or NIC card will not get you close to a nice
Linuc installation.
My 2 cents.
--- Harold Bibik <hwbj@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 03:03:40PM -0500, Kent West
> wrote something like this:
>
> > alex wrote:
> >
> > >All the furor about the difficulty in installing
> Debian makes me wonder.
> > >
> > >What kind of preparation will improve your
> chances of doing a successful
> > >Debian installation?
> > >
> > >
> > >2. Study the documentation (TFM) that describes
> the installation and
> > >the options
> > > before doing the installation.
> > >
> > 1. Know what hardware you have.
> >
>
>
> Yes...find out as much as you can about your
> hardware and if you plan
> on connecting to the net ( and I suppose you are)
> make sure you have
> written down all the information you'll need to
> connect to your ISP
>
> I really liked Dwarf's Guide
>
> http://people.debian.org/~psg/ddg/
>
> the install guides are available from the Debian Doc
> page
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/
>
> Also a quick Google search on "Installing Debian"
> should give you a
> few useful hits
>
>
> ...and actually I thought the Debian install was as
> easy as RH's or
> Suse and bit more to my liking since I didn't feel
> like I was giving
> up all power and choice to some cool looking graphic
> installer.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Someone had to put all that chaos there
>
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> Harold Bibik hwbj@twcny.rr.com
>
>
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