On Tuesday 02 September 2003 18:20, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I have received my new Compaq Presario 2540EA and while Windows > works on it nicely I decided I prefer to install some kind of a > Linux distro. > > I found a set of Red Hat 9.0 CDs on my desk so I started to use them. > > boing: it got stuck quite at the beginning when it was trying to load > the driver for 1390 (I have a built in firewire in this notebook).
The sony vaios also come with a firewire-based CD ROM. I was unable to find a distribution that is able to detect it during installation (though it is bootable). But since you wrote: > Anyway I am quite sure I'll try to install Debian on this machine I'm willing to share with you what I did: I used the Debian installation diskettes to perform a network installation; that worked like a charm. AFAIK that's what all other vaio users do, so maybe it's the right solution for you... Of course, diskette + network installation will work for all distributions, not just Debian - but don't tell anyone :-) > I also would like to know if it is safe to use the > network installation of Debian ? Sure. During the network installation you are not running any services, so there are no entry points to your machine. If you're especially worried, install it behind a NAT gateway and no-one will be able to reach you from the Internet. (For the purists sake I'll mention that there is the possibility the Debian mirror will get hacked and some plants a special "Gabor Trojan" that will be installed there just to hack your machine. I doubt that's a realistic scenario, though) > > How secure is my computer during installation before I can harden it > manually ? "Secure enough". > > I attended Shachars presentation in August where AFAIR he suggested > to pick up a Debian derivative distro. Install that and then > get-apt to unstable. Is this what you recommended ? I wasn't in Shachar's presentation, but in one of Shachar's installations I attended (it was on one of my machines), he installed Debian stable and then distupgraded to unstable. That's what I've been doing since. -- "It was only a one liner. A semi-illiterate chipmunk could've written it. " -- MBY about his 2.5.73 kernel patch in tpam_queues.c - Aviram ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
