I Heart Sarge! He is great. I used the 100MB Network install. And then let the new installer* make all the right choices. Took about more than an hour start to finish. Then I installed MythTV and got that working. Sarge doesn't come with support directly for Lame, (presumably due to licensing issues.) but I finally got a good apt URL for one. 2.6 kernel out of the box. (typed linux26 when booting the Net install CD.)

Directly supported my 1GB network card, SATA controller and ATI vidcapture. So far so good. I'll let the dust settle a bit and then try out other stuff.

*Despite being text based, the installer is a real joy. I even like it over Anaconda. I'll have some CDs made for tonight's AdvLUG meeting if anyone is interested.

Ed


Robert Citek wrote:


On Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005, at 17:05 US/Central, JT Moree wrote:

That's the problem with Debian.  There's always a next because getting a
fully working system is like pulling teeth.
~ ;)


That's been my experience in the past. I'm hoping that Sarge with the 2.6 kernel will be less so. We've had excellent fortune with Red Hat and Fedora Core, so I don't see switching any time soon. But it's nice to have another distro as a backup plan.

BTW, if you are running Debian on VirtualPC, add vga=791 to your kernel options in the /etc/grub/menu.lst file. It makes the screen much more viewable and usable. I discovered this option by booting Knoppix and then typing:

$ cat /proc/cmdline

which lists the command line options passed from the bootloader (e.g. grub) to the kernel.

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