-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Mohan Khurana wrote:
> > > On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > > > Don't worry about that, but be ready to mess up a couple of times as you > > learn how everything works. Remember the warning to back up any drives > > that you can't afford to lose! > > hehehehe... okay. > > But I have all my real important data on my C drive, /dev/hda, I will be > installing linux on my D: drive, /dev/hdb, so I don't need to worry about > my C drive, right? > > Not right! It's can be easy to mistyped /dev/hda altough to have it in 2 differents hd is less (possible? sorry for my english!) Try to do everything in a regular account and be `very careful' when you change to root. You have really more power when you're root then you would never have in DOS/Windows and without warning much of the time (Although the debian are more secure about it than other distributions I try in thepast...) Good Luck! - --------------------------------------------------------------- "Old software engineers never die, they just fail to boot" - --------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien Ninoles aka Baffouille || Running Debian-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Lover of MOO, mountains, http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || poetry and Freedom. - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMqInxlX6fc7jcjhFAQHODgQAmbzs8ZTZ0Dlk7+KohQuzRQsaYhoFaCYJ CUIcYfOx30+P4kIOsHG5E+Xa6crclllbeDCDTkaoXWqTrVB9lD8RFZ6ln0W74v+d xBYt/11++gUV/opTgw0yHhUtEyFVPQVuTicBY2+sdqX2WK7jDhr6E5dXzsKbeKmM +dn6w1Dc7/g= =uR3e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
