custom install

2003-10-07 Thread Brett Ryland
Gidday,     I have an ECS g732 laptop, that I want to install debian on. I have tried installs using the official cds, a jigdo cd and a knoppix cd and each time I run into the following problem... An install with a 2.2.x kernel works fine but I would like to use reiserfs and 2.2.x doesn't su

custom install

2003-10-07 Thread Brett Ryland
Gidday,     I have an ECS g732 laptop, that I want to install debian on. I have tried installs using the official cds, a jigdo cd and a knoppix cd and each time I run into the following problem... An install with a 2.2.x kernel works fine but I would like to use reiserfs and 2.2.x doesn't su

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Gidday,     I had a quick look at the portugese kurumin distro via babelfish.altavista.com but it didn't look particularly useful for a decent debian install. So I successfully followed your suggestion of installing 2.2 on a small partition (overwrote a 2GB FAT partition for transferring stu

Re: Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Being careful is always good, but it worked in this case... maybe a more sensible version of cp? e.g. cp -rp /lib /mnt/ will preserve the symlinks whereas cp -p /lib/* /mnt/lib/ won't. Anyway, I now have kde3 running, but I'm struggling a bit with my ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (ticking over slowly w

Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Gidday,     I had a quick look at the portugese kurumin distro via babelfish.altavista.com but it didn't look particularly useful for a decent debian install. So I successfully followed your suggestion of installing 2.2 on a small partition (overwrote a 2GB FAT partition for transferring stu

Re: Re: Re: custom install

2003-10-13 Thread Brett Ryland
Being careful is always good, but it worked in this case... maybe a more sensible version of cp? e.g. cp -rp /lib /mnt/ will preserve the symlinks whereas cp -p /lib/* /mnt/lib/ won't. Anyway, I now have kde3 running, but I'm struggling a bit with my ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (ticking over slowly w