Hi all,
I just received the Debian CD's from Linux-Central, in addition to the
Linux-Central Archive Discs and must admit to being to confused by a few
things. Any help for a Linu newbie would be greatly appreciated.
Issues:
1) The installation goes well, up to the point where dselect attempts to
install the various packages. I have selected several different types of
installations from Dial-Up to Developer to Std. Workstation and have
encountered problems with all. It seems many packages are failing to
install and configure due to missing dependent packages. For instance,
e-macs.
2) Although the Dial-Up Installation installs gom, I do not see anyplace
where the actual sound card driver is installed. Thinking that I needed
to do this after the installation, I read the Linux Documentation
Project's Sound Card How-To and attempted to install the sound card
driver into the kernel. However when I try to execute 'make config',
'make menu-config', or 'make xconfig' as detailed in the How-To file, I
get an error from make, saying that the particular object specified is
not available. Is there a different process for Debian?
3) I am able to get XFree86 installed and configured and running using
fvwm95, although the performance seems to be about on par with running
Windows 95 on a 386 with 8 megs of RAM. I have a ATI Pro Turbo PC2TV
card with 8 megs of RAM and 32 megs of system RAM and a 200 MHz Cyrix
Pentium clone. Win 95 (without IE 4.01) runs very well (when it isn't
crashing) on my system and from what I had heard about X-Windows, I
could expect much better. However, when I drag a window about, the
redraws are annoyingly visible. Am I expecting too much?
Overall, I must say I love Linux. It's wonderful. It's like I'm back in
college hacking the DEC-VAX and VMS (no groaning out loud! ;) -- not
like I'm using a toy computer (which is what I feel like using Windows).
However, I just can't shake this feeling that Debian is *missing* a
whole bunch of stuff. Of course, I'm sure that trying to install Linux
for the first time, just from the CD's without any documentation or
books, other than the on-line info and man pages is not what the average
person should be doing, but then, buying Red Hat and having everything
taken care of for me wouldn't be half as much fun! :)
Anyway, thanks in advance to anyone who wants to help out.
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