On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:40:34PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > >Use IDEPCI image. You may not even use driver disks. :) > > Yes, I wondered. Any idea of a rtl8139 network driver is in that image? Not as compiled in kernel but as module, I think but not sure. Nice thing is its driver-disk is 2-3 disk if I remember. Since I use tulip and eepro100, it was not a problem.
> >Before installing, you can go to console by pressing ALT-F2. Then use > >editor to edit /etc/sources.list. You can skip most minimum potato > >install downloads. That is a small trick. > > Edit it how? You mean add the testing URLs? I did that, but again, I > found it more reliable to do a complete upgrade for each step. Believe me, > I've been looking for all the short cuts I can find! ;) Yep. At least thios trick worked few month ago. > >Put them all in /var/cache/apt/archives/ then you are all set, > >I think. Try it and tell me what happens. > > I did that. I did two installs today. The first time I tried to be tricky: > > - booted with rescue and root floppies. > - Alt-F2 and insmod my network card module from floppy > - did base install off the debian site > - copied .deb files to the /var/cache/apt/archives directory (from > a second partition) > - then cycled through apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade. > > And indeed, it seemed like the .deb files were being used. But the upgrade > failed badly and let the machine in an unstable state. This sounds like there may be some other issues on archive now. > So I started all over again, using the driver-? disks, and dselect instead > and it went smooth. I still copied the .deb files back into the cache, but > it didn't seem to install much faster -- still fetched most packages from > the debian mirror. (I thought dselect was just a front-end for apt-get, so > I wouldn't have thought there would be a difference in the use of cached > .deb files.) Yes. apt-get pulls in all suggested packages. Try "apt-get dselect-update" mauybe. > Anyway, I've decided to move to a new headache: trying to get XFree86 > working. I'm using 4.1, but still a 2.2.19 kernel. I need to figure out > how to move down to 1024x768 and how to keep the mouse from hanging... > What fun. Good luck :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
