On Monday 09 July 2007 17:13:07 samwise wrote:
- does the Debian install process still re-boot after installing the
base system? If so, you could try setting the boot parameters to GRUB when it boots by pressing ESC to cancel the timeout, then e to edit the boot commands. Try adding "vga=791" (for 1024x768) to the end of the "kernel" line.
Might be of some use?
Ahah. Finally turned out to I had to set the vga=771 line to stop it from screen corruption which I also found documented on the loader help screen. Got as far as a command prompt now ... which is a good start. :)
Cool. Did you ask it to install any stuff automatically? I normally don't. I also normally don't install the great big, all-you-can-eat kde metapackage either. You can get a list of more subtle kde packages like this:
$ apt-cache search "kde.*meta"
The main ones are: kde-core, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kdeutils, kdepim
You'll also probably be looking for this some time soon:
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/mirrors.html
You should add the following to your /etc/sources.list:
deb http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia stable main deb-src http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia stable main
but be aware that these packages have a habit of moving on an almost weekly basis.
You will probably also want to do this:
$ su # cat 1> /usr/sbin/apt-add-key #!/bin/bash gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $1 && gpg --export --armor $1 | sudo apt-key add - ^D # chmod 750 /usr/sbin/apt-add-key
and then when apt complains at you that it can't find the gpg key for various sources, just get the key id and pass it as an argument to that script:
# apt-add-key 07DC563D1F41B907
Though you probably know all this already.
Have fun!
Cheers, Richard