Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-08 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "ScruLoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 23:32 Subject: Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help I bow to experience guess I was just afraid. Ho

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:22:18AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > In linux or windows I dont qualify as smart but I have some experience with > this subject. I think you are under some misconception about whats > happening. I really don't think I'm the one with the misconception. > I had a wind

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread cr
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:22, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "ScruLoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 21:47 > Subject: Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help &

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:22:18AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Consider the following when windows is mounted on the linux system it > is just a file on a directory (mnt/windows) windows isnt running! > Should you write a file to /mnt/windows there is nothing to check for > free space, nothing to r

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "ScruLoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 21:47 Subject: Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help In linux or windows I dont qualify as smart but I have some experience

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now, > started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to > debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install > instructions on http://w

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:56:44PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > hey thanx so much for your help, just one quick question > > >Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. The FAT filesystem semantics aren't the > >same > >as Unix, and it's not a very good filesystem anyway. I would leave your > >Unix > >

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
David Millet wrote: 1) are these instructions http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere? These instructions cover lots of different methods of installation and lots of different situations. As a result, they

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:32:33PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > David Millet said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700: > > 4) once i get debian up and running, i want to set it up to where > > the second partition on hda, my win2000 fat32 drive, is mounted as > > my home directory as a user.

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
hey thanx so much for your help, just one quick question Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. The FAT filesystem semantics aren't the same as Unix, and it's not a very good filesystem anyway. I would leave your Unix homedir on a Unix filesystem, and mount the fat32 partition somewhere else. i wa

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
David Millet said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700: > 1) are these instructions > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob > like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere? They are probably best. > 2) i have 2 harddrives, hda and hdb, hda has wi

heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread David Millet
ok so i've been doing this linux desktop thing for about a year now, started with redhat, then went to mandrake, now i want to move on to debian, i'm still a noob so i've been reading up on the install instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install but before i got started i