On Monday 01 August 2005 17:48, Gene Schafhauser wrote: > 1) My only Internet access is via dialup. I wanted to do a net > install, but could not connect directly to the Internet with this > computer. I had to network to a second computer and use that as a > gateway.
Did you try installing in expert mode and loading the optional ppp-modules? That should give you the option to set up a modem. > 2) I have a parallel printer, but udev refused to create the lp0 device > node. That's not an installer problem I'm afraid. Please follow up on that issue on the user lists and/or, if you can confirm the problem, file a bug report against udev. > 3) The Ali M5451 audio controller is using ALSA, but the ALSA support > packages were not automatically installed. After experiencing sound > problems, I finally figured out that these packages were necessary for > proper operation. True. Again not really an installer issue. Maybe we will decide to install alsa-base by default if a 2.6 kernel is used and a soundcard is detected sometime in the future... > 4) I used tasksel (desktop environment) for automatic package > selection. Both KDE and Gnome were installed. It might be better to > allow the user to choose which one(s) to install and not be forced into > having both. That is an often heard suggestion. We may have recently convinced the author of tasksel that this is in fact a good idea... (FWIW, I agree with you here.) Thank you for your installation report and your comments. I'm leaving the report open because of the dial-up issue. Could you try that? Cheers, FJP
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