Thanks, it was more fun than paying bills. I took six hours, but it really took two. I did it three times due to errors. The thing had a woody base system when I got it. After thirty minutes or so we decided to try to use the base system to get Sarge. It got the Sarge base system OK, but blew up later because I forgot to remove the CD entry in /etc/apt/sources.list and the CD drive flaked while replacing perl. I don't know why it wanted to read the CD, but it hung there and that blew it. It took about an hour an a half to do that. Then I spent about two hours installing to a partion the BIOS could not see. Then I spent another two hours getting everything right and adding a few extras like Window Maker. So, I can say two hours, if you don't make any mistakes.
It was all waiting time. Most of the devices were auto detected and XF86 set up almost by itself. The new disk formatter was much slower than cfdisk and seemed to be less clear. Everything else just jumped out of task select. The most important thing to me was that it worked when it was done. It felt lighter than Fedora Core 1, which itself is usable. Two hours is not too bad for the equipment. I'm spending about as much time with Feather Linux. Some time was waste with a nasty Compaq Presario 4704 with a weird riser board for shared ISA and PCI slots. ISA network cards just won't work on it even if they were working on Windoze are recognized and work on other machines! Feather goes on fine and in a jiffy, but getting synaptic takes about an hour. Once it was on, I changed the the source list to point to testing instead of unstable. Then just letting dselect do it's thing takes another hour or so. When it's finished, I can start to put packages on. The only thing that would be easier is be to have a fancier image disk .... like Mepis or Knoppix. Knoppix 3.3 worked great on it, but I did not try it's install script. Mepis needs 100 MB and won't run on any box of this class. I need a beer. On Friday 02 July 2004 08:27 am, CM Banker wrote: > Cheers! > ... > > How long did it actually take? You were definately clock cycle > impaired...(and I thought all of my linux play boxes were scraping > bottom!) > > Fluxbox kicks it... I like the wigetry of K but it truly bogs down an > older system
