Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

[Brian Durant <durant@cbn.net.id>]

OK, due to a download problem with a couple of the large CD iso files, I
am trying the bootbf2.4.iso Andrew Bloch net install. When I get to the hard
disk partitioning, I am not really sure what to do. My hard disk looks like
the following at this time:

/dev/hda7    reiserfs    9.29 GB    (mount point) /

/dev/hda5    ext2        15.1 MB    /boot

shmfs           shm         57.9 MB    /dev/shm

This is from a SuSE 7.3 Pro install. I don't have a problem with the setup,
if it will work with Debian, but I am unsure as to how to proceed with the
Debian install prompts:

1) prompt for /dev/hda6 as swap I guess this is OK, I assume that shmfs is
swap? I got this info from KDE Control Panel under SuSE 7.3. It uses KDE
2 something.

2) prompt for hda disk partition. I assume this provides an opportunity to
reformat the entire hard disk, but all I really want to do is reformat the
partitions at the same size for the same uses as I have now, unless there
is a reason not to.

Cheers,

Brian


Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 08:04, Brian Durant wrote:
> > I am a relative Newbie to Linux and totally new to Debian and this list. 
> > My first questions, which I hope aren't like the above subject, is how 
> > closely related is Xandros (formerly Corel) to Debian? Is it close
> >   
> I've never used Xandros, but I assume it's mostly the same except for
> some customizing in the installer and 'desktop' department.
>
> > enough that list members wouldn't mind me posting problems to this list 
> > or is that verbotten? I know that Debian has a long and honored 
> > reputation of not including commercial software, but does that mean that 
> > no attempt is made to support commercial products, for example getting 
> > Win4Lin, Star Office or Codeweavers' Office and plug in products to run
> >   
> For commercial software you can usually get good support from the
> provider of that commercial software... that's what your paying for.
>
> I've never used Win4Lin, but I know OpenOffice is working great for
> debian, and it's also included in debian-main (unstable anyway).
> Crossover also works perfectly.
>
> > At this time, I am trying to get a working Linux version installed on my 
> > daughter's Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC. This PC has no legacy serial 
> > or parallel ports, supports USB 1.1  and like the iMac, comes without a
> >   
> Should not be any problem... as long as it boots from cd-rom
>  
> > built-in floppy drive. I have tried Mandrake PowerPack 9, SuSE 7.3 Pro 
> > and Xandros 1. I have had problems with all of these with regards to 
> > getting the SiS 900 Fast Ethernet driver (Ethernet built into 
> >   
> Get a debian (mini- or netinst-)cd and boot it with the 'bf24' option to
> use a 2.4 kernel. The 2.4 kernels in debian support the sis900 out of
> the box (I have them in my laptop and desktop systems)
>
> > motherboard) to work properly. As the computer is connected to our home 
> > WAN/LAN, she hasn't been able to access the Internet or brows the 
> > Intranet. I am now in the process of burning the Debian 3 rev1 CDs and 
> > was wondering if there were any helpful comments or suggestions to any 
> > of the above.
> >   
> On the isolinux prompt enter 'bf24'