I just installed the (slink) Debian distribution. It worked ok and seemed to be rather painless. I got lilo working even though I installed to a second disk in my system... So what's my problem? Here goes:
I read the readme's and found that for my video card SiS 5597/5598 I would need the 3.3.3.1 Distribution of XFree86, so I went to their ftp site and D/L it. I followed the installation instructions and when I got done, I ran XF86Config. This seemed to run ok, however, when all was said and done, startx wouldn't show me anything on the screen. I could have lived with that, as I might be able to troubleshoot it, however now when I try to boot the system, it goes until I get he message that it is loading xfs and it just sits there and does nothing further. I assume this is not normal. However, the only advice I am getting from people on IRC is that I need to reinstall. This would only be my 6th reinstall (as that thought already occurred to me, and I had other problems earlier) but there should be something I can do when I shell in from the rescue disk to bring this system back to life. Can anyone help me? Please? Bradley