On two different desktop machines, neither of which had any challenging components(1), it just worked nicely(2). Granted, I haven't gone any further with either of them than the post-reboot minimal add-ons and updates in aptitude...
The other machine I tried was a Dell Inspiron 8000 that already had a scratch install of Woody (serving as the master boot dispatcher and place to stand while using a lever on awkwardly-placed partitions), a fairly complete Libranet, and of course a Windows game partition. I had a nice empty 4G of disk set aside for Sarge, but it's not going to get there the netinst-tc1 way. Everything went fine until it came to starting card services, at which point it locked up. After 5 minutes, the only thing responding was the power switch. :-( I tried the aix7xxx=no_probe option, not because I really expected it to work, but because it was there nect to the word "Dell". Well, except for hw-detect/pcmcia-start=no (or however that was spelled), which, naturally, got right past the former sticking point... and turned very red a moment later because, oops, the PCMCIA ethercard (a nice old Xircom, Prism chipset, and BTW that was the only card plugged in) wasn't working. Not a surprise, alas. So that's how it's been going over here. Mostly good, laptops remain sometimes troublesome. Oh, I didn't think to try the 2.6 alternative, did I? Wouldn't be very relevant, since I'm not interested in degree of instability right now - Sarge on the dual-boot project box will absorb enough spare time. :-) Predictably, I'm not subscribed to the list, so I probably won't see replies sent only there. (1) P3/850 on an Asus CUBX-E with 384MB, Matrox Mystique on PCI; the other was an XP2400+ on a G7DXE with 512MB, old TNT2 AGP video. Both had boring IDE HD and CD... nothing challenging, every part has helped make Linux run in some earlier configuration or another. :-) (2) I'm not yet certain whether the new [manual] partitioning is great or just not too bad. I miss the usual [c]fdisk listing, but the integration with formatting and mount point assignment is sweet. I may have to do a few more installs to help me decide. -- That is the real business of communication - finding out stuff. And it certainly can happen in reading too, but there is this difference: in communication that's all that happens; in reading it is the barest beginning. -- Richard Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
