On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:35:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/06/05 23:29), Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:05:34AM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > > > Now I'm worried. Note: I don't have a reiserfs file system, only an > > > ext3 fs since day one on all partitions. > > > > > > If anyone can help me to get the system bootable again, I think I can > > > correct the lilo.conf problem by myself > > > > > > at least if the initrd.img thing is covered in the lilo man. I've > > > totally reinstalled Debian about twice the number of months I've used > > > Debian(6 months) and most were due to config issues, one due to > > > filling up / even though I followed Debian recommendations. I had > > > Sarge 2.6.8-2-686 installed through dist-upgrade and, believe it or > > > not, the installation config questions asked were very much different > > > than the stable sarge. Maybe Debian will someday provide enough > > > explanations so a newbie doesn't have to guess what to select. Also, > > > > Debian is not reccommended for newbies. Ubuntu, Kantonix etc are more for > > newbies I think. The documentation is improving. There has been many > > times where I have read a HOWTO or similar only to be left scratching my > > head in wonder. :-O > > Hi Chris
Hi Clive, > IMHO this is misleading. Yeah, maybe ... "Debian is reccommended for average to advanced users but if you are a newbie stick with it; you'll be glad in the end" Don't know if average is the right word. > I was a newbie on woody (ppc) [..] I was a newbie on slink on old 386 (8M RAM + small HDD, 10G was big!) with no connection to net :-( -- had to use floppies 'n' back then libc6 would fit on one! Had to get shown how to mount a floppy, a real luser :-) Hell, that wasn't that long ago. The frustrating thing was making sense of the documentation; spelling and grammatical errors in key places. I wasn't aware of the open source concept of submitting patches/bugs. ooops starting to rabbit on ... -- Chris. ====== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
