Where and how to save Alias at?

I tried to set up an alias for shutdown -h now and worked fine. When I rebooted it was gone. Is this a one time thing each session or can I save my alaises to a file for all sessions? Thanks Paul Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumI

Any help before I go and spend $49.99 on a Book with the disks?

Can anyone help me? I am about 10 seconds from going and buying a book with 1 CD in it. It may have more, who knows, I'm tired of sitting here with my laptop laughing at me. Peace Paul Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=117294

Let's make this easier!

It's a disc with /contrib /debian /non-free folders, for 2.2 Anyway to upgrade from 2.0.8? from CDROM? Peace Paul Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1172947&a=8635040 Join my new Knife Collector's Forum at: http://pub26.ezb

Ok folks help really needed! New Debian install

Someone brought me a disk with Debian 2.2 on it and the packages. My problem is I have a laptop with CDROM and floppy interchangeable, but not resident together. I also have part of a Debian shell on the laptop, no DOS partition, etc., just Debian and a Swap partition. When I go to the CDRO

Download from FTP

What should I download from ftp.debian.org so I can start setting Debian up? Peace Paul Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1172947&a=8635040 Join my new Knife Collector's Forum at: http://pub26.ezboard.com/bcollectorsknives935

Serious newbie needs help!

Hi, I'm really quite new at this. Just installed 2.0.4 of Debian on my laptop, wiping out Windoze completely. :-) I just have the basics as the person I got it from just gave me the basic files, no packages, just the base system. Anyone have the whole set on CD? Oh and I also have a problem.