On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:44:00 -0500, Robert Benjamin wrote: > I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall > Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat. I have iso images 1 and 2 on CD > roms and the drive is bootable. Using the iso 1, I get stuck at the part > where it asks the server:/path for the root filesystem. I'm a Linux > newbie and I guess I don't know what this is, or what to enter there. > Things were going fine to that point. This is a i386 system. The HD is > 30 gig and has ONLY Red Hat 9.0 on it. > Can you help me install Debian or get me past the point where I > don't understand what it asks. I have no problem removing Red Hat, if I > knew how to do that. This is a learning experience for me, and there are > no files that need to back up. I can start from scratch. > Thanks for the help. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First thing, remove Red Hat and start from scratch. Or set up a separate debian installation on different partitions. In any case, start clean. JMO, of course -- ....................paul "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, Winner of British Plain English Campaign's 2003 "Foot in Mouth" award. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
