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Well, Linux came in the post today so can I be the first (and most likely the only) person to say WAHOO!
Now that's out of my system, I think I'll need some help installing it. I was going to try myself, but when I read 'a wrong choice could wipe my hard drive' I thought I better get some help.
The partition is done, and the drive is just sitting there to be Linuxified. My dad seems to think I need the UDMA66 setup or something but I think he is just guessing. Also, it doesn't give any specific steps on how to make a boot-up floppy.
I found the installation web site thing quite vague so I will probably asking for quite a lot of help :). Cheers.
Now that's out of my system, I think I'll need some help installing it. I was going to try myself, but when I read 'a wrong choice could wipe my hard drive' I thought I better get some help.
The partition is done, and the drive is just sitting there to be Linuxified. My dad seems to think I need the UDMA66 setup or something but I think he is just guessing. Also, it doesn't give any specific steps on how to make a boot-up floppy.
I found the installation web site thing quite vague so I will probably asking for quite a lot of help :). Cheers.
Exxcellent.
Potato - Stable version. Oodles of software, 100% stable, 100% ancient
Woody - Testing. Newer, more software available to APT, less stable. Hence "testing".
Sid - Unstable. Bleeding edge software available to APT, less stable althuogh still very. A few software bugs, although your average bleeding-edge new Unstable version in Sid is a damnsight more stable than, say Office 2000.
Note:
You can upgrade easily between the types (and back), and also there is a difference than "Software available to APT" and "Software available". APT software is pre-compiled, like your Windows .exe files, and is extremely easy to aquire and install.
Potato - Stable version. Oodles of software, 100% stable, 100% ancient
Woody - Testing. Newer, more software available to APT, less stable. Hence "testing".
Sid - Unstable. Bleeding edge software available to APT, less stable althuogh still very. A few software bugs, although your average bleeding-edge new Unstable version in Sid is a damnsight more stable than, say Office 2000.
Note:
You can upgrade easily between the types (and back), and also there is a difference than "Software available to APT" and "Software available". APT software is pre-compiled, like your Windows .exe files, and is extremely easy to aquire and install.
Turbonutter wrote:
> "Linux" is very vague, like "Oh, I got a game
> yesterday". Precisely what version of Linux is it?
*goes to get the disk*
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5
Official i386 binary 1 non-US
Potato
That's the only info on the disk apart from all the copyright stuff.
> "Linux" is very vague, like "Oh, I got a game
> yesterday". Precisely what version of Linux is it?
*goes to get the disk*
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5
Official i386 binary 1 non-US
Potato
That's the only info on the disk apart from all the copyright stuff.
Debian, whats the Potatoe for? I remeber you saying something about the differnt flavours a while back :)
"Linux" is very vague, like "Oh, I got a game yesterday". Precisely what version of Linux is it?
Well, Linux came in the post today so can I be the first (and most likely the only) person to say WAHOO!
Now that's out of my system, I think I'll need some help installing it. I was going to try myself, but when I read 'a wrong choice could wipe my hard drive' I thought I better get some help.
The partition is done, and the drive is just sitting there to be Linuxified. My dad seems to think I need the UDMA66 setup or something but I think he is just guessing. Also, it doesn't give any specific steps on how to make a boot-up floppy.
I found the installation web site thing quite vague so I will probably asking for quite a lot of help :). Cheers.
Now that's out of my system, I think I'll need some help installing it. I was going to try myself, but when I read 'a wrong choice could wipe my hard drive' I thought I better get some help.
The partition is done, and the drive is just sitting there to be Linuxified. My dad seems to think I need the UDMA66 setup or something but I think he is just guessing. Also, it doesn't give any specific steps on how to make a boot-up floppy.
I found the installation web site thing quite vague so I will probably asking for quite a lot of help :). Cheers.