Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700, David Millet wrote:
> ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now,
> started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to
> debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install
> instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install but
> before i got started i wanted to ask you all a few questions:
>
> 1) are these instructions
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob
> like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere?
> 2) i have 2 harddrives, hda and hdb, hda has win2000 on it, its divided
> into 3 fat32 partitions, hdb has an old install of mandrake on it, i
> want to put debian on hdb, is the filesystem manager on the install cds
> comprehensible enough to where i'll be able to format the partitions on
> hdb without messing up hda? all my important data is on hda, so if
> something happens to hda i'm screwed
It has already been suggested that you back up /dev/hda , but if you
don't have a means for doing that, you can keep your Windoze stuf safe
by opening your computer box and disconnecting the power cable from
the /dev/hda drive before you attempt the install on /deb/hdb (do this
with the power OFF). In fact, I would recommend disconnecting the hda
drive whenever you are doing major surgery on /dev/hdb . During the
surgery, access to Windoze is not needed, so put that stuff in a
condition where spilt blood won't damage it.
After the patient recovers from the operation, you can give it access
to the Windoze stuf.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@peakpeak.com
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