On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Bernhard Heger wrote: > I've been reading this mailing list for a short time now, but from what > I've read so far, Debian 2.2 is not yet elaborate enough for installing > it on a laptop with a PCMCIA card.
I'm running Potato on my laptop from the moment I had my laptop (or more accurate, when I've found a working HD for it..), 6 months ago. Installed from Slink and then kept regulary updating it with the latest Potato. I don't think it's less stable than Slink, but it is much more up-to-date and has lots of new packages to chooce from. > I have a cheapo 10mb/Ethernet card that is ne2000-compatible in my old > IBM Thinkpad 750P (486/33). At the moment I'm running Debian 2.1r4 > without any problems, but my desktop PC is a SuSE 6.3. I want both > systems to run the same distribution, but unfortunately XFree 3.3.2 that > comes with Debian 2.1r4 doesn't support my PC's graphic card. > > Can I get Debian 2.2 to run without any problems or should I wait for > the final release? It's almost final :) > I've been using Debian 2.1r4 for about 2 weeks now and I still haven't > found out how to 'configure' packages that are already installed. I > know, that several packages include a *conf programme (pppconf, etc.) > but not all of them. I had to --purge and -i apsfilter several times > before I could get my printer to work, since I couldn't find any setup > utility that I could invoke after installation. Well, currently most packages are including debconf support in Potato, and that will solve your problem :) If you want to reconfigure a package that has no reconfigure script, look at the /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.postinst script, maybe that will give you a clue how it's configured at install time. -- Tot ziens, Bart-Jan
