Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi Giuseppe > First a quick introduction. > The debian installer you used will probably be superceded by a new > installer that is being written from scratch, i.e. it is not an > improuvement of the dbootstrap code you are using. If you are courious > you could probably try it from CVS: > http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/ Will look into that (as well as dbootstrap). > 1. The documentation about the sb module and all its arguments is > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/sound/Soundblaster > Of course the actual path will be different for a different kernel > version.
> 3. To setup the modules after the installation of Debian you need to > create a file in /etc/modutils/. The files already there will be > useful for understanding how they work. You still have more > documentation on this in > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/modules.txt > In that document you will find how to know what parameters a module > needs (/sbin/modinfo -p sb) Now that I have found the kernel source on the BINARY CDs I can go on. > 4. About the cdrom mount point. I *think* that Debian have a 'preferred' > cdrom. Once you have a system set up, you should make a link from > your /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom. In this way every program that try to > access your cdrom will find it in /dev/cdrom regardless of which is > your real cdrom device (scsi, ide, ...) > The usual mount point for the cdrom in /cdrom. After Debian is > installed you usually find a line like this one in /etc/fstab > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,exec,noauto I would like to have apt read from /mnt/cd32. Which file do I have to tweak now? I. e. whre does apt store ist predilection for /cdrom or is it compiled in? > 5. The ide-scsi. Some program require a SCSI device. The ide-scsi > software emulate the SCSI interface on an IDE device. If you need to > activate it then you have to load the module *AND* use an argument > during the loading of the linux kernel (i.e. in LILO or grub). If you > do not set the argument for ide-scsi during boot then you do not have > to worry about it. It is probably opened by some program but will not > actually work since you did not provide the argument. An example of > the argument is hdc=ide-scsi that means: create a faked SCSI device > controller and a fakes device chain and a faked SCSI disk device that > the emulator should map to the hdc device. I have 3 SCSI CD-ROMs and a SCSI harddisk, so most programs should be happy. No compiling a no kernel, ide-scsi will be dead. Never had any problems befor w/o it. > 6. About the matrox driver. I am not an owner of a matrox card but I > understood that XFree requires a driver for that board that is > available from the matrox web site. I looked at xfree86.org again. They say it's part of the svga-driver. I think I will ask again in debian-x with copy of my config file attached. > 7. The CVS for the documentation is not available only under Linux. You > use any CVS client on any unices or user WinCVS under MS-Windows. > Moreover you have the HTTP interface in http://cvs.debian.org/ Good to know. > > 8. The apt.conf file is documented in man. To have more information just > type 'man apt.conf'. It this doesn't show up, then prabably you have > a misconfigured man. Did you tried mandb? Found it now, it's /etc/apt/sources.list > 9. mail. On a Debian system you need at least local mail in order to > deliver mail from cron. If you use exim, then you may choice from a > menu that will permit you a 'local delivery only' installation. You > may run eximconfig anytime to change it. Local mail is installed and will soon be configured, but I have to retrieve mail from several ISPs and also want to read several languages not using Roman characters. Will ask this again in debian-isp. > > 10. Security update. This a different source for your apt. You may > insert it in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run the apt frontend you > like. The question about using root is strange: you need to have root > privilege to install any package in Debian. There is no special rule > in using security update since they are normal packages that fixes > security bug in a stable distribution like woody. To run apt-get, you must be root, so that means to access the web as root. I don't like the idea. Is there a way to do this wothout being root? > 11. tcpwrapper is way to secure your network connected machine at > application level. To have more information on it look for the > package tcpd. OK > 12. The X resolution is shown in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Look for a > line like 'Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)'. You may also find > the actual resolution using the command xdpyinfo. Should help. > 13. When you boot your system using the Debian kernel than you have a > lot of driver installed. This is the reason that during boot you see > many SCSI drivers trying to find its own hordware. To avoid it you > have to recompile your kernel without these drivers. Will compile my own kernel. > > 14. The kernel source are available in a *BINARY* package and not only > in the source package. You may install it via the package > kernel-source with the correct version (the one you like.) Have already found them. Thanks for the help Axel Schlicht -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
