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Old 01-29-2006 , 08:33  
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I think you need this one:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...86-netinst.iso

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Old 01-29-2006 , 11:28  
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Old 01-29-2006 , 12:10  
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Debian almost destroyed my computer...

I installed it, it took a while, but it worked quite well, repartitioning my computer slightly, after it failed to partition my iPod correctly.

It installed GRUB, so I could load it, my other distro's of Linux, and my Win32 OS's without a problem (I realyl didn't have a problem just sticking in a boot disk to load the OS I wanted before, but eh.)

It loads up...and this is where the problems hit. Normal Debian refuses to load, I have to load in recovery mode. It stops connecting to the internet, so its just the very basic command line, with no tools. And then, when I restart to fix it, GRUB is corrupted, and I can't boot to ANY OS.

Luckily I had a Live CD for Ubuntu, or I wouldn't be online right now. I managed to fix the boot loader, but then discovered that the act of repartitioning had NOT repartitioned free space (I had about 20 gigs of free space, I wanted to repartition 5 of that) but had indeed repartitioned still used space, making my Windows install inoperable.

So I partitioned out Windows (The OS partition I had repartitioned for a bit of space for Debian) and reinstalled it. Luckily, I back up all my stuff, but none of it was damaged.

Maybe I just got unlucky and got a version of Debian with a corrupted version of GRUB, or did SOMETHING wrong (I can't see what though, as the installation was absurdly easy), but let me tell you, I never had any troubles like this with even some of the harder Linux Distro's to install....
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Old 01-30-2006 , 00:57  
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Ubuntu saves lifes..... computer lifes... <o/
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Old 01-30-2006 , 13:24  
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hmm, i have tried the following linux distro's:
debian, demolinux, mandrake, college linux and suse
and i think every1 has his own favorites
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Old 01-31-2006 , 09:37  
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Hmm, I think I should try all Linux versions I have right now and see which one I like (even though I like Kubuntu and Slackware most)

I'm downloading SuSe linux as we speak, I'll give that a try too as it looks gooood
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