High, On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, David Witbrodt wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm in the process of backing up a decade's worth of old files I > want to keep, burning to CD-R. Once finished, I plan to partition and > install 4 OS's, including Debian. > I have the CD from a book, "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleased", but the > kernel there is 2.0.36. From the reading I've done, especially the > "Large Disk HOWTO", this kernel won't work with my 40 Gb HD. It looks > like I'll have to make boot floppies and download the rest, or have > someone burn a CD for me. > > My first question is: will potato work with my 40 Gb HD, or do I > need sid or woody? potato works fine > My second question is: even if potato would work, should I get sid > or woody anyway? (It looks like most people are running the "testing" > version even though it might crash more, right? Bear with me... I'm > new to Debian... haven't even installed it yet!) > I suggest that you use potato for a while until you are comfortable with Linux/Debian. If something goes wrong in sid (unstable), you would not know if a package is borken or if it is your own inconveinience. If you need a newer package, go woody: it is near to stable now. > Then, the computer that I just got was a gift, and it was packaged > with a Riptide chameleon combo card with modem and sound on the same > card. I've looked around and it looks like this card won't work with > Linux, so I need to replace it. (It's crap anyway, so I'm going to > replace it even if it is supported now.) So my third and fourth > questions are: > > If you had to pick a new sound card, which would you pick? I am using a Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Works great, good sound. I have read test where this was the card which worked best under Linux. > If you had to pick a new modem, which would you pick? External modems does not matter much. Just go external, will always work. Well, serial modems then. Greetz, Sebastiaan > > Thanks, > Dave W. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
