Drop to Winblows DOS mode without loading the GUI... You can do this by pressing F8 during bootup or by choosing Shutdown to MS-DOS from the menu.
Then locate the disks-i386 directory on your CD, and then run 'install'. At 11:16 AM 1/13/99 -0800, Sam Franc wrote: >I bought the second edition of The Debian Linux Users Guide. >There are 3 CDs included. >I have a FIC VA503+ with Win95 b installed on the first partition of an >8 gig drive. >I have a second 1.2 gig drive I setup with a 1 gig Linux partition and >a 100K swap partition with Partition Magic. >Reading the Debian manual is confusing. It talks about a lot of floppy >disks. It sounds like the days of when windows came on 28 floppys. >Isn't there something that says like "Put CD in drive. Type setup and >follow instructions." >Most all of the messages on the list have very cryptic commands in them >that look like Greek to me, so I am afraid I won't know what to type >when the CD starts processing. Where does one find what all the commands >mean? There is no Glossary in the manual. >HELP! >TIA >SAM > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
