On Sep 9, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Stephen Allen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote:
Hello Stephen (and everyone else),
Howdy Nicholas,
Being polite this time ;-)
Glad the step by step worked. Please make sure you acknowledge
Rick as well, without this help, I would never have gotten my
install working either.... The list works!
Absolutely. I believe he has some additions for the SxS as well.
Having read the other posts about the expert installer setting, I
would add that in my experience setting the installer to expert
did not allow me to avoid the installer trying to install quik. On
older versions (eg Woody) even without putting the installer in
expert mode one could stop this (and the install manual explained
how). With Etch, the installer just pushed ahead regardless of
what I tried to do to stop it. Fortunately, since quik does not
work with ext3 file systems, it aborted.
I consider this a bug. Perhaps I should file one then ? What's the
best way to do this;
reportbug ? Rick perhaps you can chime in here ...
I consider it a bug too! The "expert mode" hack allowed me to skip
the "install quik" step, as I described in my previous email, but it
didn't do any good; the object of skipping it was to allow OS9 to
boot cleanly, but as reported, it's still necessary to do the
"refresh the disk drivers" trick with the OS9 install disk.
I was using Lenny beta2, and your tests were with Etch, if I
remember. Maybe the "barge forward and install the boot loader, even
in expert mode" mis-feature got dropped somewhere in-between?
I'm planning to do some experiments to see just where the boot info
gets clobbered -- when I get some time... (Sigh!)
Hope you enjoy your new system. I have found Debian to run
extremely well on these systems.
Yes it is quite a bit snappier then MacOS X, and my SCSI Agfa
scanner, "just works". Xsane
autoconfigured it !
That's good news. I have tried to get xorg and gnome running on my
test machine, but it seems that the video chip it has isn't very well
supported. I need to open a bug report on the subject.
--
Regards,
S.D.Allen - Toronto
Enjoy!
Rick
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