Re: Debian Hamm Installation Questions

1998-10-21 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 05:01:34AM +, Kevin Grant wrote: > > I'm a non-unix person installing Debian on a PC (there > will only be one user) for the first time, and have a I'm sure you'll get several responses, but you may want to look at the URL in my sig. It details (my own) step-by-step de

Re: Debian Hamm Installation Questions

1998-10-21 Thread M.C. Vernon
> 4. I decided to install the packages selected anyway, > just to see what that part of the process is like. This > bit took a long time, with many interruptions to ask me > questions that I couldn't comprehend. Like "What > priority should I give this package?". The help seemed > to indicate t

Debian Hamm Installation Questions

1998-10-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The questions: >1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version >info >right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity >AT) >and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that >this >will allow the system to access partitions larger than >1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound c

Debian Hamm Installation Questions

1998-10-21 Thread Kevin Grant
I'm a non-unix person installing Debian on a PC (there will only be one user) for the first time, and have a collection of installation related questions. Perhaps someone here can help. I've already run through the entire installation process once, but during the process I had to make arbitrary