Summary Information: Name: Brandon Mitchell Date: 1998-12-20 Source: ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/ Method: 3 1/2 Floppy rescue disk and base disks Machine: P 90, 16M Ram, 850M+540M HD, Modem 28.8 Cdrom (ide) Result:
Process: Used cp to make the floppies. Ran into the waiting error on modules, enter worked fine. Configured apt to use llug(frozen) for use within dselect. Over the days it took to download (28.8 that could only be used at night), I added a few more packages than the stuff in the custom package group section. Did a dialup with little trouble, and even got X running in a very short time. Notes: Some more descriptions for the modules would be nice, but maybe you are waiting of the translations to catch up. I like the status bar on the floppy reading section. Small nit-pick: top of the window is messed up in the custom package category screen. Dselect didn't register changes to package list and only wanted to remove pcmcia-cs. I needed to run "update-modules force" to successfully remove pcmcia-cs. I also had to go through the "select" step despite the meta-package tool's note that I didn't need to do this step. There were some 404 errors from the packages.gz file being out of date. I wish there was a perfect solution to this. My modem hung up for some reason over night, but I didn't want to dial again in the morning. I reran setserial to give it the strange irq that it has and all was better again. There was a util-linux -> slang unsatisified depends (supposidly fixed already), so I put util-linux on hold. Over the day or two that it took to download, the util-linux problem was fixed. I had to give up on non-us for now. Also, my problem with my modems irq changing seems to have stopped. All and all, this was a quick and relatively painless install. Even got X running after I forgot to save my XF86Config (oops). Looking good folks, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
