Hello, Today, I installed Debian on a friends computer (so, sorry, but I can't test any solutions). this went mostly to plan, however several minor problems: - selecting "configure device drivers" (or what ever) did nothing, so I had to configure the network driver for the Intel Etherexpress 100 manually. - debootstrap kept aborting with unidentified errors with ftp.monash.edu.au, ftp.au.debian.org, ftp.us.debian.org, but went OK for ftp.debian.org (sometimes, but not always, I saw file not found errors on the 3rd or 4th console); I think it needs to be able to recover better from errors, and more information on what went wrong would be good, too... It is possible to continue installing, if debootstrap won't work? - on reboot, as I manually configured the eth0 driver, I had to redo it again here, and put the result in /etc/modules. - I selected to use the Australian download (ftp.monash.edu.au) site, but it didn't use the Australian mirror of non-us.debian.org (which is stored on the same server). - selecting install X desktop environment did not install stuff I considered very important, eg. a window manager. So I installed sawfish-gnome manually. - I found it difficult to locate information for the video card in question - a Matrox G450. Apparently, it is not supported by X 4.0.3 out of the box, and the driver needs to be downloaded from the manufacturers website (let me guess: this is probably a closed source driver...) I think it should be clearly documented in the documentation of xserver-xfree86 what to do in cases like this. Everything else went exactly to plan. Anyway, just my feedback, I hope you can use it to make Debian even better! -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
