Kris Murray wrote:
> 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? Go to ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/ Get all base*, recue*, root*, driver* (assuming you have a PC intel, normal 1.44 floppy drive) Using CA since US is always full. This will install a base system, with apt-get, dselect, etc (internet connection) Also you will need to read ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/README.txt and the tools from ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/tools/ if you are using windows or msdos > > > 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? > With the above the system itself will guide you through to continue installation over the net. This is the way that I have gotten mine the last two times, before I made my own cds > > 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? > The best is to dedicate a whole hard disk to Debian, if youy can... > > 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
