Hi all, I am new to the Debian fold and I am afraid that I am having trouble adjusting from my RedHat/Mandrake familiarity. Some of these questions may not be so Debian related so sorry in advance.
I am in the process of setting up a potato test-cycle 1 system that I bought from some very nice people at the Linux Conference in London recently for £7 including source. A good deal I would say :) Can anybody recommend a Debian specific users guide (for the not so newbie)? I have an advansys scsi controller and 4GB IBM scsi hard drive. I also have a brand new Maxtor Ultra ATA 66 29GB drive with promise controller. I installed the system to the scsi drive without a hitch. The boot up script system is similar enough but where is chkconfig? I get a really strange NFS timeout error complaining about AF_INET not being set, any ideas? I would like to install Debian to the ATA66 drive but I can't find a kernel compile option to do this. The prebuilt IDE kernel image recognizes this but cannot mount it as there is no filesystem on it. Do I have to download a patch to the kernel sources provided? I cannot get X to play nicely with my Creative Labs Geforce DDR. Is there some utility besides the horrendous xf86config that I can use? I really like the attention to detail that is apparent in Debian. I like the package system, I just need to read up on it more, I guess that's what the FAQ is for. thanks in advance, Anthony