Re: Help with installation

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/03/03

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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:10:40 -0500

    On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:44:00 -0500, Robert Benjamin wrote:

    > I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall
    > Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat. I have iso images 1 and 2 on CD
    > roms and the drive is bootable. Using the iso 1, I get stuck at the part
    > where it asks the server:/path for the root filesystem. I'm a Linux
    > newbie and I guess I don't know what this is, or what to enter there.
    > Things were going fine to that point. This is a i386 system. The HD is
    > 30 gig and has ONLY Red Hat 9.0 on it.
    > Can you help me install Debian or get me past the point where I
    > don't understand what it asks. I have no problem removing Red Hat, if I
    > knew how to do that. This is a learning experience for me, and there are
    > no files that need to back up. I can start from scratch.
    > Thanks for the help. benjie1@cox.net

    First thing, remove Red Hat and start from scratch. Or set up a separate
    debian installation on different partitions. In any case, start clean.

    JMO, of course 

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....................paul
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