Re: Linux and DOS: was Linux the hard way

1998-05-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After loading most of the .deb files to my Linux partition on hda, dselect > ran out of space to actually install! I finally decided to just start over. > I have swapped the hard drives around so DOS is on hda and Linux is now > re-installed from floppy on hdc. The sys

Re: Linux and DOS: was Linux the hard way

1998-05-30 Thread John_Gay
The first drive is 800M with DOS 6.22 installed and nothing else at the moment. I plan to install DJGPP on this drive for C Programming. The second drive is 600M with 128M for swap disk and the rest for Linux. I originally had the drives the other way around, but was told that DOS won't boot from a

Re: Linux and DOS: was Linux the hard way

1998-05-30 Thread John_Gay
Since this system is only currently installed from the Base floppies, I don't have access to the 'man' command. I am new to the UNIX and Linux environment so I appreciate simple, step-by-step assistance. When I get the system installed and running right, I can get comfortable with it and start to s