David Millet said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700: > 1) are these instructions > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob > like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere?
They are probably best. > 2) i have 2 harddrives, hda and hdb, hda has win2000 on it, its divided > into 3 fat32 partitions, hdb has an old install of mandrake on it, i > want to put debian on hdb, is the filesystem manager on the install cds > comprehensible enough to where i'll be able to format the partitions on > hdb without messing up hda? all my important data is on hda, so if > something happens to hda i'm screwed Then, if I were you, I would back up hda before doing anything. Mistakes can happen. That being said, you shouldn't have any trouble installing onto hdb; I have done it before. > 3) i see that lilo is the default bootloader, i know that if i put the > windows lines in lilo.conf and i run /sbin/lilo it should let me choose > between booting into windows or linux when i restart, are there any > hangups or problems i need to look out for? i have some experience > editing the lilo.conf file with good success in mandrake... Nothing that I'm aware of; it's always worked well for me. You no longer need to make the 10MB /boot partition. > 4) once i get debian up and running, i want to set it up to where the > second partition on hda, my win2000 fat32 drive, is mounted as my home > directory as a user. in other words, i want one of my fat32 partitions > mounted at /home/david/ after i create the david user account. can that > be done? Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it. The FAT filesystem semantics aren't the same as Unix, and it's not a very good filesystem anyway. I would leave your Unix homedir on a Unix filesystem, and mount the fat32 partition somewhere else. If, however, you wanted to do this, you could by putting /dev/hda2 /home/david vfat defaults 0 0 in your /etc/fstab. > thanx in advance for the help. i'm really excited about debian. Good luck. M
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