Yesterday I related that the standard CD isolation wasn't going past the attempted Graphical interface setup. During today's snowstorm around Wash DC, I did achieve a work around.
First I knew that my multiaged PC hardware was basically OK, because a Debian installation was already working well. But the CD installation aborted both on my machine and my neighor's standard Hewlett Packard PC box. The following is basically shortcut slang for those familiar with Debian Linux installation and update. If anyone is interested in more detail, email direct to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0. Specify loadlin in your Win95/98 config.sys to do your boots: [MENU] MENUITEM=WIN95, WIN95 MENUITEM=Corel, Corel installation with LINUX_2.0.38 kernel MENUITEM=LNX22, LINUX_2.2.13custom [WIN95] [Corel] INSTALL=C:\UTILS\LOADLIN.EXE C:\UTILS\VMLINUZ2.038 ROOT=/DEV/HDA1 RO VGA=3 [LNX22] INSTALL=C:\UTILS\LOADLIN.EXE C:\UTILS\vmlinuz2.213 ROOT=/DEV/HDA7 RO VGA=3 [WIN95] 1. Set up a 500-1000 Meg partition for the Corel installation 2. Therein do a minimal, standard Debian Linux installation 3. Use dselect to modify this initial installation a Use the Corel CD as the source *.deb repository for the non-US sources option specify the .../corel/binary-i386 directory b For the already installed packages, compare the version #s against those on the CD and make a list of the few for which Debian packages have a higher version. c exit dselect 4. Use dpkg -i CorelPackages.deb to reduce the version of these listed Debian packages 5. With dselect install CorelPackages.deb needed to support XFree86 windows Use an already tested XF86Config. 6. Install the desired Corel desktop once X is working. This is not for the Novice. It took me some 4 hours to work/learn my way through it But the Corel Linux is working on my motley clone and is pretty. My guess is that the Corel hardware diagnostics is not mature enough to deal with the diverse PC hardware and doesn't sometimes "deduce" the right XF86Config. Probably it would be good for Corel to provide a console based menu as backup when the graphical installation aborts. MarvSdeb