Hi Kris: go to www.debian.org/ for all your answers. hth Dean ----- Original Message ----- From: Kris Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:29 PM Subject: downloading debian GNU/Linux 2.2
> To the List; > > My name is Kris Murray. I am interested in downloading this Linux OS. > However, I have some questions and concerns. > > 1. To download it, do I have to ftp the entire OS from the ftp site to my > hard drive? Or can I just download an installation program that will take > care of downloading each individual file? If I need to ftp the files, which > ones? > > 2. After I download it, what do I do? I read on the website that I can boot > from floppies or my CD-Rom. But I don't think that is for downloading. What > exactly am I supposed to do to initialize and start up the OS? > > 3. I also read on the website that installing Linux might wipe out some of > my other files. How frequent is this? Is this something that I should be > concerned about? And if so, what is the scope of the files that it will wipe > out? I have a whole partitioned drive dedicated to Linux. Will other drives > be affected? > > I would appreciate it if someone could help me out and answer my questions. > > --- Kris Murray > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
