Dear debian-user List Friends: I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and it works - at least with Red Hat. I have unsuccessfully tried the Potato-Helix combination on two completely different computers, so the problem must be mine. I begin with the the Potato installation, and when it gets to the apt-get section, I include the Helix-Gnome CD. Potato sees the Helix-Gnome CD fine, and I select the three Helix-Gnome boxes in the apt-get "simple" selection area. I then continue the installation, and all works fine until apt-get begins the actual installation of the packages. Then the messages (describing which packages are to be installed) appear at different starting points on the screen. The last message is: "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" At this point the computer freezes and will not respond to a typed Y (enter) or any other keyboard action.
My hope is to use the Debian/Helix-Gnome combination on computers at an elementary school. Any help on this problem would be very much appreciated!!! p.s. I have also tried installing Helix-Gnome after completing a Potato-only installation. Potato installs fine. But when I begin the Helix-Gnome part, directly from the CD as per Helix-Gnome instructions, the same screen freezing occurs.