Hello,
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +0000, David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on
> my Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for
> me, a Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an excellent release!
> Whoever has worked on this has done an excellent job. The price was pretty
> good too--$12 from Linux Systems Labs for 4 CD's (2 source code and 2
> binaries).
>
> I do have several questions I'd appreciate some help with:
>
> 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and would
> like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the family won't
> even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything working properly.)
> I created a boot floppy during installation, and when I boot the system with
> it in the floppy drive, Debian does indeed come up, but it takes a very long
> time. Is it possible to set up the boot floppy so that the system does boot
> from it, but once it does, transfers to the Linux kernal on the hard drive
> (/dev/hdb1)? Is that a sensible question?
After taking care of question 2 try the following:
Read
man lilo.conf
man lilo
See
/usr/doc/lilo
>
> 2. My installation does not recognize the Linux "man" command. How can I
> install it, and the man pages for system commands?
To install the "man-db" package, look in the "doc" sections in dselect.
There is also a package called "manpages" which has man pages for the Linux
system in gereral.
Application specific man pages are installed when you install the "*.deb"
packages.
>
> 3. How can I mount my Win98 FAT32 partition on startup? It mounts fine after
> Linux boots up if I enter the command "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98".
>
Read
man fstab
See file
/etc/fstab
> 4. When I boot Linux, I get a message about hdb1, the Linux hard drive on my
> system, not having been cleanly unmounted. How do I shut down Linux so that
> the Linux partition is cleanly unmounted?
You need to stop the system properly so file system can be sync'd and running
programs terminated cleanly.
Commands for halt and reboot are:
shutdown -h 0 (halt system now)
shutdown -r 0 (reboot system now)
Read
man shutdown
>
> 5. I've installed release 4.0 of XFree86, and run xf86config. When I enter
> "startx", I get the message "xinit: error in loading shared libraries.
> libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory". I
> can "find" libXmu.so.6 in directory /usr/X11R6/lib. How do I tell the system
> where this file is located?
Not sure about this, sorry.
Regards,
Robert
>
> I know this is basic stuff, and I'd be very grateful for any & all help
> getting myself going.
>
> David Jenkins
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