Hi, Here are some of the issues that I faced while installing and upgrading debian on my iBook G4: (if I am writing to the wrong list, please let me know)
$ cat /proc/cpu processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1199.999000MHz revision : 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102) bogomips : 73.47 timebase : 18432000 platform : PowerMac machine : PowerBook6,5 motherboard : PowerBook6,5 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (iBook G4) pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld 1. KDE as a desktop while installing Etch - there is no option to install KDE as the desktop manger, instead of Gnome. Surprisingly, at the tasksel stage of the installation process (even in "expert") mode there is no mention that the "Desktop environment" is actually GNOME and only GNOME!! Note that, I have tried the netinst, xfce-cd-1, and kde-cd-1 discs from this page: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/powerpc/iso-cd/ and each of these installs Gnome (xfce does xfce though). More agonisingly, even after adding "task=standar, laptop, kde-desktop" at the boot prompt of the installer I end with a GNOME!! Why? What is the purpose of *-kde-cd-1.iso? Why is there no simple option to choose between Gnome/KDE at the tasksel stage? OK, so even after repeated formats and installations, I end up with a Gnome DM - fine, I'll change to kde later.... 2. I upgraded to unstable, using dist-upgrade, and the locale is screwed.... To be fair to the Debian folks, I was surprised and impressed to find that almost everything else worked fine, if not better, after the dist-upgrade. Anyway as of now, apt-get <cmd> gives the a combination of the following two error: perl warning: Please check that your locale settings LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US" are installed on your system ==AND== locale:cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: no such file or directory locale:cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: no such file or directory locale:cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: no such file or directory As expected the locales package is broken... Is this the situation, or is it because of my dist-upgrade? What is the fix? -- Regards PK -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
