Re: SATA - How to access disk ???
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ieb wrote:
> Hi Joe, ....
>
> I think the posting twice was more of a duoohhhh-moment, than an 'oops'....
> but anyway.... back to the question.
>
> You have solved my problem.... THANKS
>
> Downloaded the image .. burn .. boot ... (allow it to do it's thing) ..
> and voila... a system that works. I could have saved myself more than 2
> weeks of 'learning curve' if I'd but asked the question in the first
> place. (But then I learned more about the way that linux works in the
> past 2 weeks than I had in the past 5 years).
>
>
> I must admit though... I hadn't looked at Debian prior to 3 weeks
> ago.... it has to have the most confusing bunch of documentation I have
> come across in a long time. As I wrote initially... I found 7
> descriptions as to how to create the RamDisk image; and the best
> description actually came from an IBM site rather than Debian itself.
>
> I'm going to enjoy getting to grips with Debian ... I can tell !
Sure thing. That's what the mailing list is for, to help people.
As for your problem with the documentation. You're not alone. One of
the reasons I left Ubuntu was the poor documentation (and the fact that
it's most of what they do have is written for morons). The opposite is
true of the Gentoo documentation. It is usually very good.
Debian documentation is in between. The problem with Debian docs are
that they are usually rather old, and while much of the information
contained in them is pertinent, not all of it applies to the modern
version (ie. Sid) so it needs to be read with a filter. For example,
even the cvs version of the Debian Reference refers to changes in Woody
and Potato.
The best documentation are the man pages that come with the each
application. They can be sometimes quite terse, but armed with the man
and a good search engine on the web, one can usually figure out what
needs to be done. All else fails, find a geek.
There are also some very good tutorials on the web.
Joe
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