Re: Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)

2000-05-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
Firstly, don't fake a new message by replying to an old one and changing the subject. Everyone gets annoyed because it screws up threading in their email programs. Compose a completely new message instead. Andy Krietemeyer wrote: With the DOS tool, fdisk, I deleted a little used DOS partition

Re: Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)

2000-05-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Andy Krietemeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the DOS tool, fdisk, I deleted a little used DOS partition from my 8.4 gb hard drive to provide ~2 gb freespace and rebooted the Slink rescue floppy into the installation program. As part of the Debian installation, I divided

Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)

2000-05-24 Thread Andy Krietemeyer
I attempted to install Slink as dual-boot to Win98 on my Dell PII300 last night, and, I think, narrowly escaped disaster. Here's what I did and what happened. Maybe someone can tell me where I went wrong. I do very much want Debian as a second OS on this machine. With the DOS tool, fdisk, I

Bad installation :(

1998-02-27 Thread Erik Rodríguez
Hello: I checked my file system and it's ocuppied more less 60 MB (14%). I know this is a very incomplete installation I have de Debian CD-ROM so i could reinstall or patch. It's recomendable to install all over again? or is more recommendable to patch my actual installation so i could

Re: Bad installation :(

1998-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
I checked my file system and it's ocuppied more less 60 MB (14%). I know this is a very incomplete installation I have de Debian CD-ROM so i could reinstall or patch. It's recomendable to install all over again? or is more recommendable to patch my actual installation so i could