Re: wannabe newbie

1999-02-16 Thread claydona
On 15 Feb 1999, Spencer Marks wrote: I'm writing to you from my second installation on an i586. I didn't have the cd so I downloaded everything and copied to an msdos partition. I got all the *1440.bin files but I booted successfully both times having the base2_0.tgz file on a msdos partition.

wannabe newbie

1999-02-16 Thread Spencer Marks
Hi, I've been running Red Hat 5.2 for a while and now want to try out Debian. To that end, I purchased the user guide which came with 2.0 cd. I am installing on a ThinkPad 600. I can boot from the CD. However, when Linux loads, the machine hangs. I really don't want to the 9 floppy disk thing