hello - i have just been installing Debian Sarge Stable on an old apple powerbook 3400c.
it wasn't easy but it was fairly straightforward. however i found the directions and help from the debian web site very poorly organized etc. how i did this was using a business card image burned d/loaded from debian.org, then a network ie custom install. i had tried MkLinux (RedHat5) before and never got the network working so this here my idea was to have it from the start. i sent in my install report telling debian.org about my issues installing. there were tricky parts. also after the install there is a lot of setup more for package selecting and installing. i had several crashes during this. it seems best to just do a few package installs at a time. twice i had to use deselect when aptitude crash leaving packages confused. once i had to use debian reconfigure and once replace package info by hand from /var/backups. there was once fsck by hand that created much lost+found files but i think they were all just intermediate from crash package installs. anyway this system finally works after about a month fooling around, more or less. it is really nice to have an up to date OS on it for last apple was 2001. this is my spare laptop but i do like it much better to type - low stress. thanks, debian p.s. now thinking about reorganizing my newer laptop to take linux - unsatisfied with mac os X. not sure best way tho, probably i will stick with debian. gentoo would work tho as well as kubuntu or mandriva. (the latter two i believe both Debian forks). one of my concerns is installing outside ie foreign or alien packages. anybody have any luck there ?? i would like to have ability to build more or less generic unix based experimental stuff ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
