wipe off hard disk?

As follow-up to my previous posted question. I have two moer questions for everyone.   1.  Do the existing non-linux partition on hard disk affect the linux partition during the installation?   2.  Nomatter what the answer for 1 is,  is there a way to "wipe off"     the hard disk?  I men

sbpcd cdrom driver

Hello All,   Where can i get a sbpcd cd-rom driver?   I'm trying Red Hat, it asks me for this driver during installation. -Cong

Re: condemn a Debian distributor!!!

I do have a cable modem connection on aother machine. Just tell me the instructions and I'll do it. Thanks man. Cong - Original Message - From: "Max Salviejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fti International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04

condemn a Debian distributor!!!

Hi All:   I recently purchased a 3-cd set of Official Debain Linux 2.2r5 i386 from Tuxcds.com.  Unfortunately, the disc1 is bad: apt cannot build the index of packages from it.  Since disc1 contains the most important packages for linux,  and the Tuxcds.com won't send me a new cd (you cannot

man

Hello All,   I have the base of linux installed on my pc.  Typing man at shell gives me " bad comand or file name" eorror.  What am I missing here?     Cong 

package installing

What is the command that you can type at shell to invoke the program that presents you the option of choosing Simple and Advanced installation methods for packages?   I know "apt-setup" and "modconf" will do apt and moudle (re)congfiguratons, so I guess there should be a program  to do wh

apt

I initially configured apt to install packages in Advanced way, but I found out that there are too many packages to choose and the navigation scheme is too much text.    My question is:  how do I (or can I) to reconfigure apt to install packages in Simple way?    I tried the command "tasks

cd-rom Help!!!

Dear All,   I am tring to install Debian on an old pc (486).   The BIOS on the old pc does not allow me to boot from cd-rom anddoes not recognize the existence of thecd-rom drive.  It does not allow me to specifiy the cd-rom on the BIOS setup menu.  There are two IDE adapters (0 and 1) withma

debian

Hello All,   A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"? dee-bean? da-bean? or something else. -Cong

rawrite2

Hello all,   When I use rawrite2 to wirte root.bin to a floppy, the resulting floppy contains files with their names corrupted, not readable at all. I did this from the Dos box within Win98,  by double-clicking on the rawrite icon, and even reboot my PC into MS-DOS mode.   None of these work

rescue floppy

Hello,   My question is simple.  The size of the rescue floppy on debian web site, under the directory /...1.44/, is 1.4mb.    But a floppy labeled "1.44mb", once formatted by DOS or Windows, has only 1.38mb available.    How can a 1.4mb-size file fit into a 1.38mb-size floppy?