The story so far (2): Success with Debian 4.0?

Finally re-installed Debian 4.0 “etch” on the Toshiba Satellite Pro M10. It’s a dual-boot installation with Windows XP. I installed from a CD (I only used CD 1, .iso image available on the Debian website here. Using Jigdo to download is highly recommended. Find out more here).
One thing to note when burning an .iso image [...]

Installing Debian: A noob’s viewpoint

Yey, so I managed to get back my old Toshiba laptop (the one where the Ubuntu fiasco occurred) and install Debian on it. It has the advantage of not being used so if anything goes wrong I can just wipe the entire system and install Windows over it (sadly it is a rather reassuring thought).
Here [...]

Installation revisited

Got the itch to install Linux again. Let’s hope this time it works better than the previous unhappy experience.
This time, I chose to install Debian–though it’s relatively more technical than Ubuntu: eg. you have to install and configure the graphics thingy yourself (X windows system and GNOME/KDE–otherwise no nice graphical desktop and windows). Not exactly [...]

Pre-installation worries

So I was lucky to receive a copy of Ubuntu 5.10 installation CD and live CD (thanks to these guys! =) ). I’ve been curious about trying out Linux already, but the main things keeping me back were:

Having to dual-boot means having to partition–I’ve always thought partitioning puts your hard drive at risk
Hardware [...]