On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:28 PM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> writes: > >> an operating system isn't for you. The "bare metal computer on a >> desert island with nothing but a CD" situation you're imagining simply >> doesn't happen. Camaleón is exactly right. > > Yeah, nobody needs a computer because they can always use someone elses. > Everyone will let you have one of their computers at your disposal at > any time because they have so many of them at home while they don't need > one and aren't concerned at all that you might break it or get their > data. > > What you call "desert situation" is the most likely one to have. If you > didn't have it, you were lucky.
You missed the rest of the quote. I'll break it down into numbered points: 1. The installation media you are using was created on a working computer. Use that one to read documentation or print manuals. 2. If you got the disc from a magazine, then read the article in the magazine the CD came with. 3. If it was handed to you by a friend, then that friend is your resource. 4. If you found the disc in the trash and have absolutely *no idea* what you're doing, then I guess installing an operating system isn't for you. The desert island situation is not only *not* the most likely one to have *it simply doesn't happen*. So, 1. If your install media was magically created without using a computer and 2. You did not receive the CD with a magazine or book that documents the install process and 3. It materialized in your hand without being handed to you by someone else and 4. You found it in the trash with no access to another computer, no access to a book or magazine, or no access to a friend who can help then Installing Debian (or *any* operating system) is a dream you're going to have to re-evaluate and probably give up on. It's nothing to do with luck, other than yours being bad. There is, in every endeavor, what we can call an "acceptable level of ignorance" before getting started. There are things it's okay to not know or not understand before undertaking the task. You have proposed questions in earlier emails you feel should be in the installer, "what is a hard disk?", "what is a computer?", "what is an operating system?", and so on... If you do have even rudimentary answers to these questions, some grasp of the concepts in your head before attempting to install a operating system on a computer's hard disk, then you have an "unacceptable level of ignorance." At that point, basic computer education is what's necessary, not stuffing the the Debian installer with a copy of "Computers for Dummies." -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOEVnYtgQnRMcf7T2b-smbC2-atz9t=7t0am1m5u7rbm3ac...@mail.gmail.com
