Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread Esko Lehtonen
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 10:04:28PM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ... Maybe MicroBilly does not want people to try different OS's. > > > He does want you to try other OSs, but rather to do it on a permanent

RE: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread J.T. Wenting
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 September 2000 21:42 > To: debian-users > Subject: Re: newbie question concerning linux install > > > > On 03-Sep-2000 Paul T.McNally wrote: > >> > > Are you con

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread Pollywog
On 03-Sep-2000 Paul T.McNally wrote: >> > Are you contemplating dual dooting between Windows NT and > Linux? NT does not like to share the machine with other > operating systems. Hard to believe isn't it? I was completely > shocked when I tried once. It really changed my perception > of Microsoft

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-03 Thread Paul T.McNally
Richard Swen wrote: NTFS: 5GB NTFS: 4GB Linux Swap: 256MB Linux EXT2: 4GB Are you contemplating dual dooting between Windows NT and Linux? NT does not like to share the machine with other operating systems. Hard to believe isn't it? I was completely shocked when I tried once. It really

Re: newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-01 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:06:59AM -0700, Richard Swen wrote: > I can complete every thing but make the drive bootable. > When I try to make the hard drive bootable, it seem > like the CDROM is detected as having the MBR. I may > be mistaken on the device names but here is what I > remember. >

newbie question concerning linux install

2000-09-01 Thread Richard Swen
Currently with much effort I have been able to finish part of the install on my computer configured as follows: p3 550mhz 128megs of ram vodoo 3 3000 soundblaster live 3com 3c905c Maxtor 13.0gig UDMA/66 ABIT BE-6 II Motherboard IOMEGA 250MB Zip Drive 3com 56K Fax/Voice/Data Modem Currently I ha