Hi Kyle Im a newbie too! I've got almost the same problem as you do. But: are you installing from a CD? You might want to try specifying the path to the cd when using the dselect command. There seems (from my limited experience w/ dos and Linux) to be a problem w/ the partition table, some little flag or toggle must have gone wrong. I tried a couple of times before it worked. If you still have a dos/windows section (partition) on your harddisk, you should have three: one which is dos (usually /dev/hda1) and two for Linux: a file system partition (e.g. /dev/hda2) (which is where you store your stuff) and a swap partition (e.g. /dev/hda3). This is the way it worked for me. (I had to install the thing from the dos partition, since the machine aint got no cd-drive). >From what I can gather from various sources of information, though I haven't gotten as far as to installing the lot, it seems that linux is really "just" a unix-like os, and if you want a graphical interface, you have to install it. I believe it's called X-windows or just X. There is supposed to be both win and mac emulators out there too.
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Kyle Landon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 29. maj 1999 09:03 > Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: HELP!!! > > Hi all, > > First of all I am a newbie. Second I cleared my c: and wipped win and all > > files gone. Not to upset about that, I just want to get Debian working. > I > can log on as my superuser and user so I can access the program. I cannot > > seem to do much at the $. I run dselect with my root account but cannot > find the packages.cd. I thought Debian had a graphical interface. What > might I be doing or have done that is wrong? I get the error message > /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > > Thank you, > > Kyle > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
