Hello, I am new to Debian Linux. I have a very slow internet access and its not flat rate. How would I go about downloading the bare minimum in order to get a Linux box to boot? My system is an AMD Athlon 1.33GHz, with 1GB RAM. I need no sound, I do need Ethernet drivers, my cards are Kingston KNE100TX, and AMD PCnet. I need a bare minimum kernel with which I can build the 2.4.17 kernel; I therefore need GCC and the kernel package. I need not have X to begin with, just be able to get it once the kernel is booted.
My mainboard is ASUS A7V 133, my harddisks are on a Promise ATA100 RAID controller and two are in RAID-0, two are in RAID-1. My cdrom drives are on the standard IDE controllers. I have Windows 2000 (SP2) installed already, so ideally would like to dualboot. I have had some bad experiences with Linux installers overwriting the windows bootloader, how do I avoid this? Thanks, Paul
