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. -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001 145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- "if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more" ------Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .