I'm a non-unix person installing Debian on a PC (there
will only be one user) for the first time, and have a
collection of installation related questions. Perhaps
someone here can help. I've already run through the
entire installation process once, but during the
process I had to make arbitrary
The questions:
1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version info
right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity AT)
and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that this
will allow the system to access partitions larger than
1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound correct?
4. I decided to install the packages selected anyway,
just to see what that part of the process is like. This
bit took a long time, with many interruptions to ask me
questions that I couldn't comprehend. Like What
priority should I give this package?. The help seemed
to indicate that
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 05:01:34AM +, Kevin Grant wrote:
I'm a non-unix person installing Debian on a PC (there
will only be one user) for the first time, and have a
I'm sure you'll get several responses, but you may want to look at
the URL in my sig. It details (my own) step-by-step
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