[CLUE-Talk] Trying Out Debian

[Matthew Porter]

My Red Hat installation has finally outgrown the partition it lives 
on, so as I type this the good folks at UPS are delivering to me a 
new 8.4 gig drive (the biggest thing my creaky old motherboard can 
handle) which will be devoted entirely to Linux.

Thanks to Bdale Garbee's outstanding presentations at last November's 
CLUE meeting, I want to give Debian GNU/Linux a try.  So, I'd like to 
toss out a few general questions:

1 - Where's a good place around here to get an official Debian CD 
set?  I'd prefer to buy from a local store, but failing that I'd buy 
from a chain store or an online vendor.

2 - Anyone have hints/tips/warnings/dire prophesies for someone who's 
used to Red Hat and is about to install Debian?  

3 - Any particular problems I should watch for if I'm installing 
Debian to a second hard drive, rather than my computer's main hard 
drive?  (I'd like to keep my old Red Hat installation accessible on 
the first drive until my new installation is up and running and good 
to go.)

Thanks,

 --Matt.



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Matthew Porter
Golden, Colorado

mfporter at mindspring.com


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