I've two questions tonight which seem simple but not... straight forward. I downloaded three ISO images and burned them to CD's.
1: I've booted from disk (CD) 1 and 2: both state they are recovery disk/boots... but then allow you to go into the installation applet. The only other ( very limited ) experience I have with Linux is with RH 7.x I don't recall RH indicating the system was booting to a recovery disk... Am I interpreting the start up correctly? Are both/all of these Cd's intended to allow access to a damaged system? 2: Related to #1 above: How many CD's should there be for Debian's current release? I have three however in reading the man (manual?) page for cfdisk at debian.org they reference 4 CD's. My concern is working/playing with Debian Linux but not being able to apply what I find in help and MAN files properly as the references are off in the set I obtained. That set of 3 was downloaded from http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html, for the Intel 386 architecture. 3: I assume dbootstrap was started upon bootup with the CD noted above because the commands I am working with are not command prompt commands but echo what the MAN pages and installation manual show for CFDISK. I've ( many times ) deleted and created new partitions on the 40 gig HD I have in this system. I believe my goal here is to create a 'kernel' partition of 5 megs, a 10 meg Swap partition, and whatever for general file use. I can create all of the partitions and can make one of them a 'swap' partition, however the .... GUI? ( Graphical interface of dbootstrap which uses keyboard command to negotiate through it ), after I write the changes to the drive, tells me I need to create a swap drive. If I try to activate the partition I just created and marked as a 'swap' partition the program states there are no new 'swap' partitions on the drive. It's late. I've spent the day giving massages and a pedicure to Microsoft networks.. so I'm pretty sure the answer is in front of me.... However I'd prefer not to throw this system out the window ( the descriptions I read indicate I'll prefer Debian over other Distributions ). Could somebody provide a late night hint? Thanks! Paul
