Chris Chapman schrieb:
> Hi; hi chris > (My System:QDI 430TX motherboard,CyriX 200MMX CPU and 96MG Edo Ram) > > I am new to Linux & Debian, Also I am not a programmer. I have > tried to install Debian 2.0 (Intel)from CD. I have Win98 on my 4.3GB > hard drive so I cleared 2.4G and managed to create a 200Mg root > partition dev/hda3, a 96MG ((is this much necessary? ) it isn't, IMHO, but it won't hurt > swap partition > dev/hda7 an a 2.1+GB linux partition dev/hda8 and have reached the > "Configure Device Drivers" step; but I am unsure what settings to use. > Here is a list of the additional hardware I have: > > HP 7100i CD Writer ( uses Direct CD for writing data and Easy Cd for > writing audio ) > > Philips DRD 5200 DVD ROM > Matrox Millennium II ( 4MG ) > Real Magic Hollywood 2 Mpeg2 Card > US Robotic Sportster 56.6K Fax\Voice Modem > Flyvideo II ( TV Tuner Card ) could be a problem > Standard serial mouse > > Can you please let me know what I must do to get them to run in > Linux?. Also at one attempted to install I left "Configure Device > Drivers" blank, then when I reached the "list of access methods" in > Dselect, when I chose cdrom it requested the "Block" I do not know > what this is. block means the block device, this is /dev/hdb for an atapi-cdrom on first ideas slave > I read the "Dselect documentation for beginners" but it > has no mention of this. It does talk about mounting your CD could you > explain what mounting is and how I can mount the CD drives mentioned > above. mounting means, that you have everything in one tree. you don't have a driveA,C and D,in linux you've got A=/dev/fd0, C=/dev/hda1...7 etc. and your cdrom is "built" in your filesystem at a mountpoint. do as root: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom where the folder /cdrom has to exist. after that, you find the data of the cdrom in the folder /cdrom. > > > Finally can you recommend the best learning materials for learning > how to use and get the most out of Linux ( remembering I am a beginner ) a very good online-manual (html) is at http://www.lunetix.de --> Downloads --> LHB-7.0.tar.gz but i recommend you to buy yourself a book > > > Thanks > > Chris > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Peter Rabenecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] one night is all that stands between them and freedom- but it's going to be one hell of a night
