At 02:02 PM 06/15/02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I would suggest going with some woody netinst cd's.
You mean download and ISO and burn a CD? >I don't have any >urls handy, but I'm sure that a quick look at google will show you what >you want. I've used both a disk with a 2.4bf kernel flavor which worked >quite well and supported everything, and the disk I used to install this >laptop was a 2.4.18-xfs plus a bunch of other things. I would highly >recommend and xfs install, particularly on a laptop. Over ext3? Ok, I'm game. You mean: http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ Hum, I wish that all made more sense to me. I haven't built a CD from ISO before, but I'm not clear from that page if I need to. The network install sure is easy, not that it actually got me where I wanted today... I just posted about my experience on debian-user. But in summary, I was reminded of my last install problems. The idepci (2.2.20, I think) disk is nice since it has the eepro LAN drivers -- makes moving onto the network install a snap without the need for all the driver disks. But, same as last time, the network download of the base system hangs trying to access the US debian archive. I had to ^C and manually pick another archive, then it proceeded normally. The other problem was I used the woody idepci disk, but it only put stable in my sources.list file. That made tasksel selections fail until I updated to woody with sources.list (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.) I then tried to install X11, but it did not install 4.1. Although dpkg showed both 3.<something> and 4.1. I then apt-get install xserver-xfree86 which seemed to install the 4.1 server, but it didn't install the XF86Config-4 file. When it was first installing xserver it asked if I wanted to maintain the config file, and I said yes (as I typically hand edit that file). But my guess is not it's not creating that file because of that. I just would like to start over on X11 setup. I think these things go more smoothly for others than it does for me.... Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
