[plug] debian install

[Bernard]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:19:42PM -0800, Wayne Vovil wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I hope you PLUG Debian people are ready to receive about 3,903
> questions from me as I attempt my second run at installing Debian
> 2.2r2. On the first run, there were so many things that I didn't
> even understand the question, let alone the answers.

Sounds human. Maybe soon you'll be able to do a Debian install with
your eyes closed and hands tied behind your back (well maybe not, I
sure as hell can't yet :)

> Firstly, when I boot from the cd, it seems to think it is a
> recovery diskette. And even though I have both PCMCIA slots
> occupied, it says "as PCMCIA is not needed, do you want to
> uninstall it?"!!!

AFAIK, the CDs double as rescue disks, but if you just press enter
on the first screen (before the kernel even boots) then it's a plain
installation disk.

As for PCMCIA, I haven't had much experience with it, but perhaps
you need to tell it to load the kernel modules for your pcmcia
setup? Easy way (the debian way) is with modconf to track it down
and load it. Then see if it still whinges. Do the PCMCIA devices
work yet?

> Secondly, I would like to have Chinese Simplified environment
> installed as I am studying Chinese at TAFE (Chinese 2A -
> Mandarin). I notice that later in the install, it asks for your
> default language (English). Does this mean that I can use this
> normally; but have Chinese chars in my wordprocessing docs too!

Never done it before, but "apt-get install xfonts-intl-chinese"
might help you start out.

> Do I need to install SAMBA Server, if I only want to acces my FAT
> partition from linux, and sometimes connect to my other machines'
> FAT partitions? Or is this only needed when someone else needs to
> access MY linux box?

To access your own FAT partitions, simply use the mount command
like:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows

where /dev/hda2 would be your windows partition (fdisk -l will list
them) and /mnt/windows is any empty directory you've created
somewhere, then all your files should be under there.

To connect to other peoples machines, doesnt matter if they have FAT
drives or what, use the samba client (smbclient). You're right in
assuming that you only need the samba server if you want other
people to connect to your drives.

> Wayne

Good luck!

Bernard.

-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au