Hello there, There have been a couple of postings recently regarding Storm Linux which uses Debian as it's base. I just thought I'd post my experiences with this dist. I downloaded the iso image that is available at http://www.stormix.com/download/index_html and burnt a CD from this image. I then proceded to install on a HP 4100 laptop and a PII 400 with multiple disks. In both cases the graphical installer failed to work, click text install and all is ok. On the PII 400 I wanted to install on the second IDE hard disk, there is already a /usr 'Slink' partition at /dev/hdb1 on this drive, the installer would not let me do this! It created the partitions, a 4G / and a 96 Meg swap partition but refused to install to these. It also left the partitions on the drive, but to no avail, I removed these with fdisk. So on to the laptop, I set up a 16 Meg /boot, a 4 GByte / and a 98 Meg swap partition. The installer asked me what I wished to install, when I clicked details for the various sections of the install no packages were shown! Oh well, I'll just install everything, which I believe is the default anyway! The installation completed normally and I presumed that everything was installed. At least that's what I asked for. However after examining the installation I see the following problems.
i) The PCMCIA package appears to be missing ii) The kernel headers are in /usr/src but there is no kernel source The CD does not contain a packages file so I couldn't run dselect on the installation CD. The apt/sources.list file points at Stormix's ftp site, fine but if I have no network or I use PCMCIA ethernet? The storm package manager, (a graphical front end to dselect) looks very spiffy but is of no use if I can't use the installation CD and have no fast http/ftp access to the ftp site. So in conclusion I'm rather dissapointed, if I had been at work on the network fine, but on a standalone laptop? These are just what I found, perhaps I missed something? Don't flame me if you disagree, they'll just go to /dev/null. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _/ Power Innovations Limited _/ _/ Manton Lane, Bedford. MK41 7BJ, England _/ _/ PGP - Public key available _/ _/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ Tel: +44 1234 223002 Fax: +44 1234 223000 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/