Compaq DeskPro 4100, 32MB RAM, Cirrus Logic GD5446, installed to second of two IDE disks. 'Standard Workstation' installation from scratch, via apt over FTP, initial base via NFS, removed XEmacs, Emacs19 and TeX from preselection.
Install disks 2.1.8 worked perfectly! Various small problems: XBanner tried to grep through /usr/lib/X11/xdm-config, but xdm hadn't been installed yet so it came up with errors. Something unidentified complained /etc/mailcap didn't exist yet so it couldn't configure itself. I said Y to SVGA X server as default, but it didn't run XF86Setup - I had to do that manually afterwards. This is an improvement on it trying to run XF86Setup before it had been installed, but it's not ideal - maybe a message to tell the user they'll need to run it manually after? Even running xserver-configure manually didn't do anything - perhaps that's the problem? WMaker did not offer to be the default window manager. Fvwm2 did, but although I said Y, it did not appear in /etc/X11/window-managers and Fvwm95 won instead. When I chose Emulate3Buttons on XF86Setup, this wasn't saved to the config in /etc/X11/XF86Config. After dselect had finished running, and had gone back to its main screen, update-menus: Can't remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid appeared twice, overwriting the text on the screen. Call me a pedant, but it still says 'Starting X font sever: xfs' on every bootup (Bug #28907). Also, install-docs still doesn't know about ps, info or texinfo (Bug #33509). Otherwise, everything went successfully and I have a happily working system. I then installed DHCP and Netscape without further problems. Ian Redfern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
