Hi!
I'm installing Debian (hamm) in two machines, a 386SX with
4 MB RAM and 80 HD and a 486 with 22 MB RAM and 323 HD.
I was very pleased to see the two new (?) preselections,
a basic system that fits in about 40 MB of disk, and a
standard system that occupies about 120 MB. Great, that
was precisely what I needed!
Sorrowfully, I had problems with both installations. In
the basic system, libc5 conflicted with libc6 and I was
left with a system without manpages, among other things.
In the standard system I got errors in a couple of
packages (modutils and bibtex, I think -I could check it-).
The standard system also tried to replace my passwords
and group files and asked me twice to select a dictionary
(american/british) ... and keeps asking me that *every*
time I run dselect.
Of course the resulting systems are usable and work fine,
but I'd like to get rid of those little annoyances ...
How can I:
a. Install manpages (which depends on things that depend
on libc5) and libc6 on the basic system? I suppose it's
not a problem, since the standard system probably does
something like that. BTW, something in perl also
depended on libc5, but dselect seemed to work fine (?).
b. Tell dselect passwords, group and dictionary are
alive and well and don't need to be reconfigured
every time? This trouble I had also in a machine I
debianized a month ago (after freeze, before deep
freeze).
Besides, I might do some testing on the installation
procedures if that helps ... I mean, I can keep installing
on these two machines from scratch and reporting errors if
that's of any use. I think an absolutely clean and smooth
installation might do a very good first impression on every
new user, and the basic/standard preselections are a big
step in that direction.
Other than that, I have only the most positive things to
say about Debian 2.0, the system and the community (develpers
and users) behind it. Thanx a lot for your *excelent* work!
JulianC
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