Bright was my heart and high my hopes when first i places a "slink" disk into my cdrom in the year of our lord 1999.
Those first early skirmishes resulted in crushing defeats. I will bear the scars to my grave. In recent months the battle has intensified... a long grim week with an installed system where X would not work, communicating with loved ones via command line ICQ, surfing the net entirely in lynx, before admitting defeat and returning to the limbo of mandrake, to await the arrival of the potato. The first skirmishes with potato did not bode well.... an accidental install of / over the /home of the distro it was meant to share with was sickening blow. But last night... with a less ambitious install (X, dial-up tools, thats it then apt-get off the disks for things as i need them) victory was acheived... debian with pictures.... & dial-up-internet. Special thanks to Matt Hawkins for his patience and advice. Things still to do: a) change the colour depth. do i need to re-run XF86Setup? or is there a better way? b) fix helix-gnome. I downloaded helix-gnome... on reboot i get the gnome login manager but an attempt to login to gnome makes the monitor go "clunk" and then returnms to the login manager... it will let me log into WMaker so its not the end of the world. c) sound.... i scavenged the sound card so make and model is a mystery... the Rhat sndconfig always used to sort it out for me... will alsaconf do the same? thats it... it doesn't take much to make me happy..... thanks for your help. John
