Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a > lot friendlier than dselect. > Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;)
The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with boot floppies from woody, skipping the brief potato phase of the installation. But as I understand it, there are no boot floppies or netinst CD images available for woody that don't suffer the configuration-stage infinite loop that's been discussed here lately, and my attempts to circumvent it by swapping around inittab and inittab.real haven't worked (a little knowledge...). At this point, I suppose I'll either wait for fixed boot disks to become available or give up and install potato as such for the time being. I'm not seriously complaining; certainly there are things I _could_ do if I _had_ to have that machine running Debian (or some other) Linux by nightfall. My timing is unfortunate, is all, and I should pipe down and let those who are working on the next release get on with it. I may even tackle some of the real work on the desk beside me to take my mind off Linux. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]