Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread Carson Christian
Ok here goes. I am an experienced PC user. I've been into it since the days of 486SX chips. I have had in interest in Linux for quite some time, but have always hit serious walls when trying to get it set up. I have tried Caldera's distro, about 2 years ago on a 486 and found it basically useless.

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Carson Christian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have partitioned a separate physical disk into 3 partitions: /hdb1 is 3GB for my root. /hdb5 is 800MB for /usr, and /hdb6 is 128MB for swap. My primary OS is Win2k Pro. I want to be able to dual-boot when it's all said and done, which is why

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread Carson Christian
built ISO? Also: What would the advantage of starting with SuSe be? Is it just simpler? Thanks - Original Message - From: Sebastian Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Carson Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Questions i can't answer I dont

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread Robert Guthrie
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 10:55, Carson Christian wrote: I have partitioned a separate physical disk into 3 partitions: /hdb1 is 3GB for my root. /hdb5 is 800MB for /usr, and /hdb6 is 128MB for swap. My primary OS is Win2k Pro. I want to be able to dual-boot when it's all said [...] First:

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread Griffith Feeney
At 06:58 AM 12/12/00, you wrote: Ok here goes. I am an experienced PC user. I've been into it since the days of 486SX chips. I have had in interest in Linux for quite some time, but have always hit serious walls when trying to get it set up. I have tried Caldera's distro, about 2 years ago on a

Re: Questions i can't answer

2000-12-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
programs in a typical linux distro, outside of core linux: including emacs, vi, TeX, LaTeX, Gimp, Apache, etc... HTH, Daniel Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:32:43 -0500 From: Carson Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Questions i can't answer I