I've just picked up a magazine with a copy of Sarge (DVD) on the cover. Since I don't have the bandwidth to get it directly, I thought this would be great, and started to install.
I've had Woody on the T20 for quite a while (along with Vector, Mandrake, OS/2 and Win98), but my Woody install had suffered some damage due to the partitioning software in Mandrake, so I decided to start from scratch. First problem I had was the installer. When it attempted to install Grub, the machine locked up. I have seen this problem with grub-install in the past, so I decided I'd let it install Lilo and clean up later. However, when I picked the Lilo option from the installer, it came up with a long and (to me) fairly meaningless path as to where it was going to install. And failed. I tried again, using /dev/hda1. But from this point on, it simply went back to the menu, with the install grub entry preselected. After more fiddling around, I was able to boot the base system from my existing grub installation (never used an initrd before, so I had no idea of the syntax needed to get it to boot). Having done that, I tooke the simplest option to get packages installed, intending to fine tune things afterwards with dselect. The install hit errors on wwoffle, since the machine is not connected to anything at present, and has a winmodem which needs to be added after install. I had some difficulty seeing just what the errors were, but the main one seemed ot be wwoffle waiting for a connection. When X started, I got the opening dialogue from KDE, it started to load and never did anything else - got as far as 'initialising services' and sat therre. I killed the xserver and tried Gnome, which complained about lack of a network connection. said it would not be fully functional(?), did I want to load it anyway. When I said yes, it put up the Gnome splash screen and got no further. I've now tried multiple installations, but I'm really no forther forward. And I have not been able to find the errors which are causing it go die so completely. Console seems to work fine, but I've not been able to get any more than an emergency xterm to work under X. Can anyone tell me where to look to locate the error which is causing this? Or has anyone seen similar problems? Any help would be most appreciated... I'm using the 2.4 kernel, since I need it for the winmodem drivers and the Savage xserver module. paul. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marwick Computer Services - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK OS/2, LAN and general Computer Consultants
