Re: Installing Morphix/Accessing Floppy

Questions are answered on-list, not off-list :)

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 22:07 +0000, Don Parris wrote:

> Guess I got in a hurry. ;)  
> 
> Ques. #2 - How to write something to a floppy disk if I'm on the bootable CD.  I cannot give myself write permission for the floppy.  I guess I need to be "root" for that, but M-G won't accept a password - at least not any I could guess at.

http://www.morphix.org/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=5&#q6

mount /floppy could work too though, don't remember actually.

> I'll be sure to give that a shot.  If I tell cfdisk to format ext3, do I need to use that when I return to the installer, or can I change to Reiserfs without causing more grief?

Do choose ext3. the 0.4-1 installer had problems when installing to
anything else. What you try after installing is all up to you.

> I'm new to Debian-based distros, so bear with me.  I tried to install Debian, but couldn't manage to get through the package selection process.  O.k., it wasn't an official Debian set, but I think I just didn't quite grasp the process.  I'm used to being able to select my packages graphically.

Reading the friendly manual tends to help :)

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