[Sussex] debian and stuff

[john]

Hi list,

Amongst, other things, I am looking into installing debian (whatever the 
current stable version is), as a third OS.

I am currently dual booting Mandrake 9.1 and eckspee on a single 120gig hard 
drive. I am using lilo as the boot loader.

So, apart from the obvious, i.e. a seperate partition, what other preparations 
would I need to carry out, before downloading (or where do I get a "boxed 
set" copy, which incidently I prefer).

Also, this business of different file system types. If I remember correctly, I 
currently have my mandrake partition set as ext2 (I think). Having heard of 
other "linux file systems" such as ext3, reiserfs, and stuff like that (well 
I think that's correct anyhow), are there any specific things I would need to 
know/do/select/etc during install - bearing in mind that I know little or 
nothing about command line controls (I am currently reading O'Really's 
"running linux", but the impending arrival of the new "Harry Potter" will 
over ride the O'Really book - God the anticipation is boarder line 
intolerable).

regards

John D:-|

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