Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

2005-12-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:36:03 -0500, [KS] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > J Merritt wrote: > > I recently installed Debian on an old Dell Latitude XPi. Because of > > limitations of the system, I had to forego booting from CD and ..if it cannot be set to boot off the cd from a bios settin

Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

2005-12-27 Thread J Merritt
> > Anyway, every time I boot up from GRUB, it goes straight to the login prompt, and once you login, you're left at the command line. I am used to the autoboot sequence where it goes directly to the GUI login screen and you just load KDE or Gnome or whatever environment you want. In this case, I a

Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

2005-12-27 Thread [KS]
J Merritt wrote: > I recently installed Debian on an old Dell Latitude XPi. Because of > limitations of the system, I had to forego booting from CD and instead create > boot and driver diskettes on floppy and load a netstat CD to get the base > install done. I installed a minimal set of packages

Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop

2005-12-27 Thread J Merritt
I recently installed Debian on an old Dell Latitude XPi. Because of limitations of the system, I had to forego booting from CD and instead create boot and driver diskettes on floppy and load a netstat CD to get the base install done. I installed a minimal set of packages including kde-base, amarok,