I have tried a seperate experiment with the boot partitions which as far as I can tell has seemed to work.
The installation of Debian however was an entirely different matter. Being armed with "Learning Debian GNU/Linux" published in 1999 was of dubious value. The installer presented me with a plethora of questions which I didn't understand, let alone know the answers to, still blundered on and succeded in getting a poor broken thing which it will be kinder to re-format. One problem being that my hardware seems to be too new for the version of X, perhaps I could have got round that but I sem to have borken it so that it won't let me log in as root on a console. Another try is in order, as I don't know what I did wrong I'll just have to blunder through until I get one I can mend after installation.
On 2004-05-27 18:12:21 +0100 John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk wrote:
[...] The installer presented me with a plethora of questions which I didn't understand, let alone know the answers to
Which installer are you using? The 3.0 one or the newer one? If it was 3.0 and someone can tell me where to get CD images for the newer one and I'll make you a copy for Sunday.
problem being that my hardware seems to be too new for the version of X, perhaps I could have got round that but
I seem to recall that there was a "magic order" to install packages in order to get a painless X installation in 3.0. Sadly, I don't remember which order. read-edid was certainly one of them.
I sem to have borken it so that it won't let me log in as root on a console.
Yikes! That's worse than not having X. What does it do? Just return to the login prompt?
Have we some fun for Sunday, then?
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