First off, I had cooker current on my hd as of 14 Jan, '01 0000UTC.
Good news: It didn't touch the Windoze partitions.
Bad news: Most everything else.
Booted with a floppy containing hd.img. Everything went OK 'til I selected
my wheel mouse when it jumped forward to the partitioning screen (presumably
because of the mouse acting erratically).
Backed up to the mouse screen when it was working again and clicked OK.
Backed up to the keyboard screen and selected US International and clicked OK.
Back to where I belong if there hadn't been the jump ahead.
Selected hdb1 as /boot and hdb5 as /.
Selected packages and started install.
Called my fiance in El Salvador but every time she answered, she couldn't
hear me. Should have known it was going to downhill from there... <lol>
I got several error messages during packages installation saying that various
packages couldn't be installed. Pressed on just to see what would happen.
Once packages installation finished, install was normal.
Rebooted and popped up into LILO. I had selected GRUB.
Other than that, boot was normal except for httpd not being able to find a
shared library. Didn't bother to write it down 'cause I was planning on
re-doing the install before reporting anything here.
XFree was configured better than before. No flashing screen (between
resolutions?) like with 7.2 before finally presenting me with KDM login
screen.
KDM presented EVERY user ID on the system, i.e. uucp, bin, daemon, shutdown,
etc.... Only WMs selectable were KDE, failsafe and default despite having
installed all the WMs. (None of the WMs were part of the error messages
during install.)
KDE came up with only KTelnet and Lyx available in the applications menu.
Exitted to the KDM login screen to restart. Didn't find that option. Not
available anymore? Used the three-finger-salute from a VC to reboot with my
7.2 rescue floppy.
Intended to update whatever had changed before doing another install. Found
that my partition containing the mirror of cooker had been wiped clean.
Anybody interested in any of the files install leaves behind in the /root
directory? It's going to be a number of days before I have a cooker to
install again with this 56k connection...
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Thomas M. Beaudry - k8la/ys1ztm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Useless Invention: Inflatable anchor.
