I ATTEMPTED to install the Debian 1.2.4 off of a CheapBytes CD and the boot disks hung on the md driver and I could not go any further, I have a working Slackware, so I compiled a Ramdisk enabled kernel, stuck it on the disk and rebooted, that worked fine, but the kernel seemed to hang on running rc, but when I switched console I found on console 2, an active prompt, so I ran dselect and everything went ok. Is there any fix for this.
Also once I installed Abuse (video game) I couldn't get the mouse to work and it went quickly through the opening screens (the text didn't scroll it just faded the screen in and out again). I tried turning the mouse off (unloading gpm). But it just hung Abuse. My Mouse is a Microsoft/MouseSystems flip-switch type and it works fine with gpm.