Le 10-Dec-98, Frank Gerhardt a pris ses électrons pour écrire: > Dear Patrice, > > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:43:48 -0500, "Patrice Bertrand" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have installed Linux on my laptop and i have now to use 'dselect' to >> install X and others packages. > > I'm in exactly in the same situation. Installed it last night. I > have a Laptop with PCMCIA modem too. After the setup program I was > absolutely lost. I will probably not be able to help you much, but > maybe we can share our advances.
If i can help i installed debian twice on my laptop. once entirely from cds and recently everything through pcmcia ethernet card. > I installted via the CD. I selected the "secondary controller/first > drive" and to my surprise it worked (without mounting). But now that > the minimal system is installed, I can't find access to the CD any > more. Which /dev should I mount? Unless I figure that out I can't > proceed with dselect. if you cdrom is on the secondary controller first drive you should mount /dev/hdc first controller = hda, hdb (first, second drive) second controller = hdc, hdd (first, second drive) > Also, I can't see my fat32 partitions although I selected the > Win95/Long Filenames option during the install. Where are my other > partitions? how did you partition your disk ? they are all probably on /dev/hda so your win partition is *probably* /dev/hda1 you are installing a dual boot system aren't you ? >> Problem : i can't find my way and i'm stuck with dselect from the >> beginning. > > Me too. > > If someone helps I'm willing to write some documentation (or at > least participate ;-). what's the exact problem with dselect ? its use ? or something else ? /\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\ Patrick M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.patoche.org/ Sysadmin of patoche.org, globenet.org, bde.espci.fr
