Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:49:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Alpha isn't a version of the OS, its an architecture (wikipedia Alpha > server) that never ran Windows. I once installed debian on a aplhastation which previously had windows NT installed, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alph

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:03:20PM -0800, michael mozenko wrote: > Hello, I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but > Linux sounds great and I want to try it out. I have already > partitioned my hard drive to accept the new OS, and I downloaded the > ?alpha? version of Debian and

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Tim Channon
michael mozenko wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but Linux sounds great and I want to try it out. I have already partitioned my hard drive to accept the new OS, and I downloaded the “alpha” version of Debian and burned it to a DVD-RW, then I restarted my compu

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 00:30, Rich Healey wrote: >> michael mozenko wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Michael Mozenko >>> >> What archtype are y

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 07 March 2008 00:30, Rich Healey wrote: > michael mozenko wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Michael Mozenko > > > > What archtype are you using? if you don't know then it's x86. Well, give us more informatio

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael mozenko wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but Linux sounds > great and I want to try it out. I have already partitioned my hard drive to > accept the new OS, and I downloaded the “alpha” version of De

Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread michael mozenko
Hello, I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but Linux sounds great and I want to try it out. I have already partitioned my hard drive to accept the new OS, and I downloaded the “alpha” version of Debian and burned it to a DVD-RW, then I restarted my computer and set the BIOS