I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them?
Thanks, Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Faheem Mitha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 23 February 2002 5 59 > To: Paul McKinley > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Newbie install help > > > > On 23 Feb 2002, Paul McKinley wrote: > > > 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 would have thought that the best thing to so was to burn Debian CDs. It > sounds like you will need woody. There are unofficial woody CD images; > check out www.debian.org/CD. Of course you will need access to a CD burner > and a fast connection, but you can also buy the CDs. > > Keeping Woody up to date over a slow non flat rate connection would be a > drag, though. If you have somewhere with a fast connection, perhaps you > can take it there to be updated periodically. > > > 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? > > I'd use grub. Easy to use, but be careful to modify menu.lst before you > reboot; read the documentation carefully. The Debian packages doesn't > create quite the right menu.lst automatically. Grub will write over the > MBR but you should be able to boot Windows anyway. My understanding is > that it hands over the booting process to the Windows bootloader. This is > called chainloading. Check out the documentation. The default for Windows > generated in menu.list always works for me, but note that I've always had > Windows installed in the first partition. I think it is a little bit more > complicated (but not much) if you don't have Windows installed in the > first partition. > > Sincerely, Faheem Mitha. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
