On Tuesday 17 October 2006 21:10, Michael Fothergill shared this with us all: >--> Dear Debian folks, >--> >--> I have installed Debian on my PC here.
Which Debian? Sarge, Etch or Sid? >It runs a 1200MHz Athlon CPU and > has --> one 20GB disk on it with Fedora Core 5 on it and now after deleted > Windows a --> second disk (primary) which is 40GB in size has now got the > Desktop Debian --> installation on it. >--> >--> At least I think it does. >--> >--> I have a few questions about the installation process. >--> >--> I spent quite a while downloading the 15 or so CD iso images from mirror >--> site using wget and bittorrent (bittorrent was a waste of time - not > enough --> fellow downloaders). >--> >--> I then burnt them to CDs and checked them for integrity one by one with > the --> Debian installer. >--> >--> I installed the OS a number of times but I got problems getting the X >--> windows to work. As root:- apt-get install x-window-system-core or apt-get install x-window-system >--> >--> At the moment the OS is there and boots etc but only in command line > mode. --> startx >--> But before talking about this I have some other queries. >--> >--> When I loaded up the installer it automatically found and configured mu >--> cable broadband. It looked as though it made use of this to download > some --> security upgrades while installing from the CDs. >--> >--> After I got through the partitioning and base install (it never has a >--> problem with this) I got to the reboot and the tedious entering of > passwords --> for root and the user. Booted? >--> >--> I then rebooted and fired up the OS. Why reboot again? >At this stage it tells you to put > the --> first CD in. It scans through it for what it calls index files. > It then --> comes at you with a cryptic instruction that says something > like "If you --> have another CD in your install set please put it in now > and get it --> scanned". Well, I've got 15 of them...... Lucky, I have 19 and had a friend download them about 6 weeks ago, maybe longer, because I am on dial up. >--> >--> We are not talking feather linux here. >--> >--> So I experimented with this in a number of installs. I found that if > you --> scanned three of the fifteen CDs it seemed to be able give you the > option of --> installing the Desktop install and the other five or so > installs webserver, --> print server, donut server, Ronald Reagan neocortex > server etc, and it then --> seemed to be able to finish the rest of install > with some bugs in the font --> installation and some other quirks but > basically it seemed to work. --> Depending what you want as a window manager etc.. You have to scan 10 apt-cdrom add >--> But if you tried to only scan one disk it then omitted the Desktop > install --> option and only presented you with a choice of the remaining > five. If you --> tried to install then it worked ok but of course there > was no XWindows at --> all just the command line. >--> >--> I then tried instaling again and this time I made a mistake of scanning > the --> first binary twice before the others. Then there was a problem > with the apt --> get installation which was fatal and it had to be > abandoned. >--> >--> How many of these CDs should be scanned at this stage for index files? >--> >--> All fifteen? Would be good, but at least 10 >--> >--> I wish I had a DVD player on this machine. >--> >--> I installed again and scanned the first four of the CDs this time and > then --> installed the Desktop. My video card is an SiS 630/730 according > to Fedora. --> I put SiS in at what I think was the video card > manufacturer choice --> setting in install. What comes up as default? Try vesa? >--> >--> There was then some stuff about Power PCs and video card bus > identifiers. I --> do not know what the bus identifier is for the video > card on this machine --> and I am not sure how to determine this. >--> >--> But it seemed as though it only wanted the video bus identifier to be >--> entered if you were using an Apple PowerPC not an ordinary PC like mine. >--> >--> So I left it blank. Please let me know if I was wrong here. >--> >--> I got to the mouse autoconfiguration bit. I tried this but maybe it > didn't --> work properly. It sounded like it thought I had a serial mouse > but I think --> I have a 3 button PS mouse..... psaux or something like this? >--> >--> I think I should reinstall and then choose manual configuration of the >--> mouse. But maybe there is a way fire up the mouse installation routine > from --> the command line interface in my current install which does boot > and run (if --> you think this install is OK based on scanning only the > first four of the 15 --> CDs for index files). Nope..... probably enough for the mouse >--> >--> If you could give me the CLI command for this this would be useful. >--> >--> I also did what I could do configure Xwindows but was not successful it >--> seems. as root:- dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system >--> >--> The monitor I use is a 15 inch CRT Belinea device. Belinea is not a >--> manufacturer that X seems to know much about. But I have got X work OK >--> with it in Fedora. >--> >--> I don't know the horizontal and vertical refresh numbers for it. But > maybe --> I could use Fedora to tell me them and then put high quality > information --> into Debian when configuring Xwindows for it. >--> >--> Suggestions here are welcome. Select reasonable resolutions during the above reconfigure >--> >--> When I tried startx I got a little cross and a little box in the middle > of --> the screen that said things like "Xsession unable to start X no > home/mikef --> .xsession file or Xsession file, no window manager, no > terminal emulators --> found; aborting. >--> >--> Comments welcome here. apt-get install [window manager] to discover which are available apt-cache search window-manager or something like that >--> >--> The log messages before X tried to start contained things like"failed to >--> acquire AGP,AGPdisabled, xf86 open serial cannot open device" etc.... >--> >--> Comments welcome. >--> >--> How do I run the Xwindows configuration again using the CLI in the > install I --> have if it is good enough? dpkg-reconfigure x-window-system >--> >--> Do I have to reinstall again and then configure Xwindows again there to > get --> it to work? >--> >--> Where can I get Fedora to remind me the mouse type I have precisely for > the --> aid of Debian? >--> >--> Regards, >--> >--> Michael Fothergill HTH -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. ......................Voltaire >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Linux Debian Etch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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