[ Date Index ][
Thread Index ]
[ <= Previous by date /
thread ]
[ Next by date /
thread => ]
OK. Judging from the replies so far I think I will try again but this time use the first CD and lay of chossing any additional packages usind tasksel or dselect. After I manage to get that working ( Hah ! ) I shall configure X and once that's sorted (Hah again !) I shall use the rest of the CDs to configure the rest of the system. Ray On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 18:56, Simon Waters wrote:
Ray Smith wrote:I'm glad I'm not the only one, not that I.m glad you're having problems of course !My Debian install works fine apart from XFree86 resolution (and ATI driver bug) and sound (which works after a fashion), so you're definitely not alone. I'm going to pull my old XF86Config-4 from backup and try that, something seems seriously screwy with Woody and my laptop, although I remember one of the other distro's took a lot of convincing my Laptop screen can handle more than 800x600.My problem is that when I try to use dselect I am merrily choosing packages then I must be doing something wrong because a whole list of packages suddenly scrolls up the screen followed by imformation that the following packages are going to be removed from the system, most of them ones I can't remember choosing as I thought I was choosing additional stuff and items I'm told will be removed include Xfree86 !Hmm - I just went through tasksel and picked a minimal workstation setting, you can always add or remove stuff later, the install even tells you how to rerun tasksel dselect (which is by typing tasksel or dselect if I remembers correctly). Better still you can use "apt" command line directly which is a lot cleaner, or one of the GUI installers if you manage to get Xfree86 in. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
-- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.