I was able to successfully install Linux from a bootable CDROM, without a
serious hitch. The system is Debian 1.3.0, installed from a two CD set from
Paul Wade. I did not have to install MSDOG at all.
The installation went almost flawlessly. Debian's installation frontend has
been cleaned up in the over a year since I installed my last system. There
was some confusion over the device name of the CDROM drive during different
parts of the installation script, that made it problematical to even try
dselect. I therefore used dpkg, installing by hand. I have found few
problems other than that involving the CDROm Drive:
The (ATAPI) CDROM drive was on eide channel two, as a single drive on that
channel. It became /dev/hdc, for better or worse. That is, /dev/hdc is the
name I now use to mount the CDROM drive (note no number used---it won't work
with a number, 1 or 2). During installation, it was identified as two
different numbers at different points during the install script: either
/hdc1 or /hdc2, I'm not sure actually whether it was known as hdb2 at one
point. This is somewhat problematical, but it now works. It should
probably be fixed, if it is a general problem, not my system only.
The system is a homebuilt, using an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard, 32MB 50ns EDO
RAM (for future experiments), an AMD K5PR120, WD Caviar 1.6GB Hard Disk.
I owe a great debt to the many programmers who have devoted themselves to
producing free software, as well as to the many Debian maintainers who have
made this an even tighter system than in the past.
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Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10
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