Returning
Well last week I had a massive system's failure, that took out my linux system. In my haste to repair it, I destoryed my windows drive too. I managed to rebuild my XP drive, but I'm stuck on Windows for now, as I wait to rebuild. The office's burner is dying, mine is already dead. So I can't burn a copy of Debian 6.04 to a disk, until I get a new burner. I bought a new burner, and made an error of buying a pure SATA drive, and I need PATA :\ So now when I'm paid I'll have to buy a converter. That'll work out, for this system was a hybrid; PATA and SATA. If/when this system dies finally, my new system will be pure SATA and hopefully this drive will work in the new system.
In the meantime I have I think, worked out how you install Debian. When you try to install it via the text installer, it has an annoying problem. Even with a 650+ meg download, it wants to download everything from the servers. At my speeds, that can take 6+ hours, which frankly I see no need for. After all I spent 6+ hours downloading the CDR version of it.
I knew if I pulled the modem at the right time, it would only install what was on the CDR. But if you do it at the wrong time. Well your wasting time. I've seen all sorts of errors - like GRUB, or lilo not installing, to even more bizarre and deep errors.
After trying 3 different versions of Debian I've finally come to the conclusion that turning off the modem when it's time to re-partition the harddrives, will force it to install via the CDR, and not the net. I tried it with Deban 5.04/Gnome, Debian 5.04 XFCE, and Debian 5.09/KDE.
Now why it is, I couldn't restore from my PARTIMAGE, is another matter. I tried several times, with several versions but keep getting problems. They may have been corrupted. Which may be possible; the backup drive is using NTFS, so I can back up my windows drive.
Hopefully in a week I'll be back in a stable, and secuire (not to mention faster) linux.
In the meantime I have I think, worked out how you install Debian. When you try to install it via the text installer, it has an annoying problem. Even with a 650+ meg download, it wants to download everything from the servers. At my speeds, that can take 6+ hours, which frankly I see no need for. After all I spent 6+ hours downloading the CDR version of it.
I knew if I pulled the modem at the right time, it would only install what was on the CDR. But if you do it at the wrong time. Well your wasting time. I've seen all sorts of errors - like GRUB, or lilo not installing, to even more bizarre and deep errors.
After trying 3 different versions of Debian I've finally come to the conclusion that turning off the modem when it's time to re-partition the harddrives, will force it to install via the CDR, and not the net. I tried it with Deban 5.04/Gnome, Debian 5.04 XFCE, and Debian 5.09/KDE.
Now why it is, I couldn't restore from my PARTIMAGE, is another matter. I tried several times, with several versions but keep getting problems. They may have been corrupted. Which may be possible; the backup drive is using NTFS, so I can back up my windows drive.
Hopefully in a week I'll be back in a stable, and secuire (not to mention faster) linux.