Re: Help with installation
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:38:14PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 18:44 GMT, Robert Benjamin penned:
> > I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall
> > Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat. I have iso images 1 and 2
> > on CD roms and the drive is bootable. Using the iso 1, I get stuck
> > at the part where it asks the server:/path for the root
> > filesystem. I'm a Linux newbie and I guess I don't know what this
> > is, or what to enter there. Things were going fine to that point.
> > This is a i386 system. The HD is 30 gig and has ONLY Red Hat 9.0
> > on it. Can you help me install Debian or get me past the point
> > where I don't understand what it asks. I have no problem removing
> > Red Hat, if I knew how to do that. This is a learning experience
> > for me, and there are no files that need to back up. I can start
> > from scratch. Thanks for the help. benjie1@cox.net
> >
>
> I have a feeling that if you try to install debian "over" an existing
> redhat install, bad things will happen ... the location of their
> runlevel files is different, for example. It may get very confusing
> trying to figure out what is redhat and what is debian, if you can even
> get the system far enough to boot.
>
> I may be wrong, though; I haven't tried it.
>
You are right. That will not work. RedHat will be trashed, and Debian
will be a crippled installation, if the installation manages to complete
without crashing.
Robert, look for instructions at www.debian.org. Read them. If there
is stuff in the instructions that you don't understand, come back here
with questions. This is the place for fast answers to specific
questions. Debian is a great distribution for learning. You start learning
before you even install it!
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@peakpeak.com
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