On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:41:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thus spake Martin Weinberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > In short, (nearly, see below) everything worked out of the box. > > Lucky you. I've installed two machines from the RC1 disc one a desktop > (AMD Athlon) one a Toshiba A30 notebook (my wife's machine). > > What puzzles me is the differenes between the two installs, both of > which involved keeping the home partition from a previous (MEPIS) > install. > > On the desktop XFree386 wasn't installed although chunks of KDE > were. The X configurator produced a non-functioning config file - > fortunately I had the MEPIS-generated one backed up and that worked > fine. > > Also, I rashly answered 'auto' to the question about sound wrappers > and sound doesn't work. > > On the notebook: tasksel didn't offer me the options of 'desktop' or > any of the languages (distinct contrast to the desktop system), so no > KDE, no gcc, no make etc etc. > > However sound seems to work perfectly (and no question about > wrappers). > > I installed XFree386 and the configurator produced a perfect config > file. I installed KDE - or thought I had. Turns out that kde-base > doesn't seem to be required as a dependency by the other KDE > components, but it won't run unless you do have it installed. > > The biggest problem, though, was the inconsistency of tasksel. >
Since I end up with stuff I don't want if I choose a task, I selected manual install from tasksel and used aptitude to get what I wanted ex post facto. So, I selected the basic xfree86 packages, compilers, autoconf stuff, gnome-desktop-envirnoment and a few other things to start. Too bad, in retrospect, that I didn't select "desktop" just to see how complete the configuration was. Anyway, after I had the basic system up and running, I filled in the few blanks by hand. I think I forget a few things that I needed for X on the first go around (a font package) and ssh, vnc, and a few other goodies, but the apt dependenicies automatically sorted out most of the missing pieces before I realized that I had neglected them. I'm used to iterating with aptitude; I guess I'm jaded. I used the debconf script for XFree86 to get a skeleton but adjusted it by hand for my non-standard laptop hardware. The changes were very minor: 1400x1080 resolution, radeon driver (not in the debconf list), get the mouse device pointing to the correct hardware. I was impressed with the much improve hardware detection. So by "worked out of the box", I suppose that I really mean that there were no (or almost no) Debian ununsported bits needed to get this machine up and running. The whole process, inserting the CD to a usably configured machines was about 2 hours. Another 45 min for a new kernel and buidling the madwifi drivers so that I could unplug my ethernet cable. --Martin > -- > |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| > |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | > |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | > |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- =========================================================================== Martin Weinberg Phone: (413) 256-3044 21 Gulf Road Pelham, MA 01002
