franardia@the-fastest.net franardia@the-fastest.net wrote:
For some strange reason commenting out the network apt sources in the sources.list file made the installer read packages from the cdrom again and not complaining anymore, I figured updates could be run later after uncommmenting those network sources.
It might not be that strange a reason. From the sources.list manual page:
The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a variety of source media. The file lists one source per line, with the most preferred source listed first. [...]
Did you add the network sources higher up the file than the cdrom ones?
Now I have another problem, X window system does not start up (but it did start once after installation, using xdm) because of some IO error, it says it fails to lad some module, namely APM I think. Any one knows any possible solution?
Wow, that's a strange one. Two possible attacks come to my mind instantly: make sure that APM is enabled in the kernel ("apm=on", without quotes, on the boot line); or purge xserver-xfree86, make sure that discover, mdetect, read-edid etc are installed and reinstall xserver-xfree86, but that's drastic.
If you want more ideas, you'll need to send the X server startup messages (especially errors) and probably the graphics card part of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Hands up all those who think Debian 3.0's X server installation process isn't quite as polished as it could be ;-) Thank $DEITY you only normally have to do it once.