Re: Newbie attempting to install Debian

2002-06-08 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002, Rick wrote: > The beginning of the installation went fine. I created my swap and boot > partitions, and selected a file image for the kernel (selecting everything > from the directory woody/main/disks-~1/current). Hi, the first directory for the kernel images is dists/potato/

Newbie attempting to install Debian

2002-06-07 Thread Rick
Hello, I recently got excited about the possibility of switching to Linux, and never having to use Microsoft Windows again. While I am a programmer, and used Unix many years ago, I am a complete newbie to Linux. I've chosen to try to install Debian because I respect open source code and because of