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Posted by "Anton Channing" <achanning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I subscribed to this list before with a different email address, back when I first planned on relocating to Plymouth. Well I'm here now, and eager to become a part of this limux community. However, there is a slight problem. I do not currently have Linux on my PC! (Shock horror!) Basically, the story is, I built a new PC from scratch a little while ago when I had some cash available to me. And of course it was my hope that I could expand my use of Linux (which I feel was quite limited on my old pc, and in fact I was never quite happy with my installation there anyway). Anyway, I left a sizable chunk of my new HD for linux, but neither of the current distributions I have discs for (Mandrake 9.0 and SuSE 8.1) were able to install successfully. In fact I can't even get the install programs running past the first menu screen. So anyway, what I always felt I needed to have was Debian. I'm a software developer by profession, and so I need a system I can get my teeth into. I feel like I will only really know linux when I can install debian, myself, unaided, and set it up to meet my personal requirements. SuSE and Mandrake were too friendly, lulling me into a GUI complacency and preventing me really learning Linux's strengths. Yeah, so I go to the debian site, and I want to do everything properly. You know, downloading the disk images with jigdo (no cop out buying the disks for me..., besides I'm broke at the minute :D ) Anyway, I want to learn all this stuff. So I've got jigdo-lite for windows downloaded, and I downloaded a whole load of .jigdo and .template files (I've opted for woody for now, thinking its best for me, a new user, to use a stable distro. Besides, if I remember correctly, debian allows you to download unstable components if needed, even on a stable distro). Well, I was going to write about a problem I was having, but I seem to have cracked it. It was as simple as jigdo-lite needing the .template files to be in the same directory it was running from. Didn't say that anywhere explicitly, I just tried it and it seems to be working. So I'm nearly a Linux User again. I'll let you guys know if I get really stuck, although I'm going to try and get through this passage of fire myself. Wish me luck! :D Anton -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Generated by the contributors page in the members area at D+C LUG http://www.dclug.org.uk/members/list.php webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.