Re: Help with installation
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:44:00 -0500, Robert Benjamin wrote:
> 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
First thing, remove Red Hat and start from scratch. Or set up a separate
debian installation on different partitions. In any case, start clean.
JMO, of course
--
....................paul
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting
to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we
know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we
know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
- Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, Winner of British Plain
English Campaign's 2003 "Foot in Mouth" award.
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