On 1/12/06, Gayle Lee Fairless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I wish to thank the two individuals who answered my previous
question about the time needed to install Debian etch onto an ASUS
P4P800E
deluxe motherboard with a 250 GB Seagate drive.
On 12/15/2005 Adam James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Installation method is another factor. If I were you I'd download the
100Mb netinst CD image for Etch [1].
If you're anything like me, you'll spend more time configuring the
system than installing it!
[1] Available from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
On 12/16/2005 Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I gess it should take less than hour for standard desktop instalation.
Testing version is bether if you install desktop station. Stable is good
for server.
On 1/12/2006 Brian Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It sounds like you at least have the base system installed since you
mentioned you rebooted the machine. In order to continue on with the
installation of the selected packages, simply bring the system back up
and log in with the credentials you set up for the root user and type
"base-config" without the quotes and hit enter, that will rerun the
configure script where you can select the packages again to download.
Regards,
Brian
The system came back up into aptitude where I added a few of the
recommends and completed the download. The base system does indeed have
the 2.6.12 kernel that I wanted. Later I hope to pull the smp kernel
for the hyperthreaded Pentium 4 Prescott. I have indeed spent more time
changing the configuration here and there such as changing
/etc/papersize from a4 to letter, downloading one of the CUPS files, and
getting the resolution to something readable. I also learned how to get
gdm to let me shutdown the system cleanly so that fsck doesn't have to
clean up at boot and reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is handy for making the
X-system give me a decent view of gdm for login and shutdown. However,
I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-function key [F1 -- F6] to get into the text
terminals. How do I restore these keys? I also tried to download KDE,
but it doesn't appear to be available. Is that because the KDE packages
for etch are not quite complete? I noticed that a number of packages
were being held back.
I hope to 'borrow' the DSL at my club but here at the house I have
dialup. I could 'rob' an external modem for the serial port from one of
my other computers if I have to. Nonetheless, I also have an external
USB modem. Is there a way to use eth1 for either of the two possible
modems? (I'm saving eth0 for the occasional DSL.)
Thanks for all the new information and the reminders!
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