Re: A few misc. question / installing Debian
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 08:38 +0000, users@linuxforums.org wrote:
> 1. What is the most common "packages" that people use with "task
> installer?"
I habitually select none, and add what I need when I realise it's
missing, so I'll leave this to someone with an opinion on the matter ..
> 2. I'm asked to "Configuring Locales" What do I choose??????
Whichever languages you (and your users, if any) expect to need. locales
are defined as language_country, ie en_GB for English/Great Britain, and
en_US for English/United States (.. de_DE for Deutsch/Deutschland, etc)
> 3. I want to do a dual-boot using windowsnt and Debian..... when I
> cfdisk in Debian the hard drive is recognized as:
>
> 14451.82 mg
>
> BUT Windowsnt see it as 13782mg. What do I do about this?
short story - they're the same number, worked out differently
long story -
A megabyte was originally 1024*1024 bytes. With the newer "SI binary
prefix", a megabyte is 1000*1000 bytes and a MiB (mebibyte) is 1024*1024
bytes.
14451.82 * 1000*1000 = 14451820000 bytes
13782.00 * 1024*1024 = 14451474432 bytes
So it'd appear cfdisk is using the modern definition of MB, and windows,
the older definition. imho the numbers are close enough that the
remaining discrepency is simply rounding differences.
( see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html for details on the
new "binary prefixes")
> Thank you in advance for any help.
HTH,
Shaun
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