On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Mark W. Blunier wrote: > > i have next to no experience with Unix. Now i installed debian, and > > let's say my partitions are completely messed up, i don't know how the > > file system works etc. > > the filesystem, 1 for swap, then only use these two. Why make things > harder than you have to? This is pretty true. It's not tough to move things around later, assuming you've left some free space (unpartitioned) on the disk -- I have a 2.1 gig drive, and only about half of it's even partitioned at the moment.
> I need to read a book, but i seriously need help The standard one is "Running Linux" by Matt Walsh, from O'Reilly -- www.ora.com. There's also a debian book out ... hit http://www.debian.org for info. > > it runs dselect, how do i get it to install x-windows etc. (i keep > > getting the message: not a valid block) (i need SO much help). This sounds like a filesystem problem to me, but I'm not a filesystem guru. > > can't even boot to anything except linux using the boot floppy. How > > would i create a partition that would be named C:\ using a FAT16 or > > FAT32 file system so i could restore windows95? aghh!! > format /mbr Yes, the problem is that you must do this from within DOS, or Win95 Dos mode. So you might have to make a dos boot floppy from your Win95 installation media. > There are of course, many different ways to do this. My suggestion is > to use dos to format and partition your hard drive. Make 3 or 4 > partitions. With your size drive, space shouldn't be to much of a > problem. What I recomend, > > ~1 Meg for dos/win 95 (bootable) > ~1 Meg for Linux > ~1 Meg for Linux/Dos, whatever > ~32 Meg for Linux Swap I'd assume Mr. Blunier meant 1 gig rather than 1 meg... Good luck. Will -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Float away here with me an evening just wait and see, | | But tomorrow go back to your man -- I'm back to my world | | And we're back to being friends. | | Wait and see me, Tonight let's do this thing. | | All we are is wasting hours; until the sun comes up it's all ours | | On our way here | | Tomorrow back to being friends. | | - Dave Matthews | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
