On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:22:56PM -0000, uklinux wrote: > Hi: > > I'm about to install Debian 2.2r2 from CDs for the first time. I have no > previous Debian experience, but have some experience with Mandrake 7.0. > > I should really appreciate some guidance on the strategy for installation. I > assume that most people select specific packages for installation, but my > instincts are to install everything (plenty of disk space), live with it for > a while, and then remove what I *know* I don't need when I'm familiar with > the system. That way, I assume, I am less likely to run into some of the > problems raised in this list the solution to which often seems to be to > install this or that package. Are there major disadvantages with this > approach? >
First off please set your mail client to wrap at 72 characters when sending to this list. I don't see any disadvantage to installing everything, if you have the HD space, in order to learn. > Another issue is that there are several packages I need that I know to be > reasonably stable (like Blackbox 0.61) but which are not in 2.2. Am I > correct that I should just download the deb packages for these and install > them, putting them on 'hold' in dpkg? > You can search for available packages at - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages You will find blackbox is .61 is listed in testing and unstable. What you could do is upgrade to say testing or if you want a more stable system you could compile the .61 source on your potato machine. > Finally, one specific query: I have a Matrox G450. There have been some > comments from people implying that the drivers for this are (a) not very good > (b) only work with XFree 4.xx. Could someone tell me whether this is just a > 3D acceleration issue? I'm not overly concerned at the moment with 3D > acceleration and would be quite happy with good 2D acceleration and XFree > 3.xx. Am I likely to have any problems with getting a decent X display after > installing 2.2r2? > I really don't have any experience with this card. I put "linux Matrox G450" into google.com and the first hit was - http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1322 seems fairly informative to me. I'm sure you can find more in the same way. hth, kent -- >From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
