Thanks, Ben. Copied to hard disk and backed up. Bruce<+>
----- Original Message ----- From: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³» > On Saturday 02 February 2002 08:22 pm, Bruce Burhans [a newbie] wrote: > > Ben. Thanks. I've seriously looked into the dual-boot approach and > > concluded that I'm very likely to end up with two non-working OSs. If I > > had more experience or a pro like you for a neighbor, sure. But I'm > > basically on my own and a true newbie. > > I'll just set the BIOS for standard VGA, no sound, no > > winmodem (have external, controller-based one) and boot order- > > CD-floppy-HD. Put the boot partition on the first part of the disk and > > let Linux have its way with the MBR and format and partition table. Turn > > off PnP in LILO config, etc. I'm getting it, and I *really* want to be > > firmly in the Linux world. Looked into them all, and Debian is where the > > action is, so here I am. > > > > Bruce<+> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > then maybe the first thing you need to set up is a solid backup and retrieval > system, so that you can feel assured of being able to restore what you had > before you started. i see you standing at the precipice, having read all the > maps and knowing there's something to land on on the other side, but > confounded by the fog, doubting you can do it. once again, if an honest count > were made, you'd find a lot of company. the fact that you know where you're > at, right here, tells me it's just a matter of time. debian, if you'll pardon > the *, is the sh*t. i've had a lot of varied experience with linux, from > first downloading 13 floppies to run the umsdos version (unix[like] on a > pc--no way. yes, way) that i'd read about way back in a tiny article in > computer currents, the sears catalog for tech junkies, then finding slackware > (solid but troublesome, as oxymoronic as that may seem) and on through > redhat--the nearest thing to what you're using now that linux gets to--into > suse, which has, sadly, long since gone the same way. i can' remember when it > was that i became aware of debian, but it piqued my curiosity from the start, > but had the rep of being hardcore, like forget everything else you thought > you knew. as my resentment of suse's dive into corporate market share reached > it's zenith, i thought, okay, the only thing between me and the sh*t is > mandrake. got it, did it, got real bored real soon. mandrake, sweet as it is, > is just like the one that you know who will, like going to macdonald's and > pretending it's food. after a while, you know that what you really want takes > a bit more effort, but it is really what you want. that's why i'm here, and > it sounds to me like that's why you and everybody else are here. > > do whatever it takes because i know that you'll feel the same satisfaction > that i do, as i imagine does everyone else here, when you know for sure that > you're in a good place where the quality of your experience depends only on > the quality you want to see in yourself, where the same rules of honor, > decency, compassion, and truth that we all wish the world ran on actually > happen here, however silently it sometimes seems. mistakes are made, toes are > stepped on, words are written that are often regretted, but nobody with any > sense challenges anybody else's right to be here because all of us benefit > from all of us being here. for example, i get the chance, right now, to try > to find words for all of that. i ain't no pro, and there are many more here > who are all just trying to do the right thing and find that this is a great > place to do it. > > do it, bruce. jump. flying has its own rules that still have a lot to do with > gravity, and it sounds like you know that. it's like going to a foreign > country--they might speak funny, but they still eat dinner and put their > pants on the same old way. i guess that's not really true--it's a bit more > like going to live in that foreign country and hoping to assimilate as soon > as possible. the thing that you have to keep in mind is that the same > divisions--here, in terms of expertise--exist as in the place you come from. > the deal here is that this is the language you want to speak, the food you > want to eat, the weather you want to wake to, the revolution you might > imagine that will make the world more like the place you want to live in. > > secure the life critical stuff--backup/retrieval--so that you can do what you > need to do, and make the jump. you have nothing to lose but your chains, > because--though i fashion a dialect--the chains of bill g(r)ates. > > ben
