On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 20:28, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > I also have a Toshiba 440CDX laptop which was given to me free. This > laptop is not owned by any of my personalities yet, because a reliable > working OS and X setup eludes me with this machine... > I've tried Debian 3.0, Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1, and all three distros get > into difficulty finding all the packages on the distro CD's to install > from...and the key ones they refuse to let me find are the lighter > weight desktop programs like ICEwm, fvwm etc...which I need to get a > workable X system going...KDE or Gnome kill it dead...
Have you got a NIC for it? Most if not all of my linux installs are network ones - so the packages are downloaded as needed from the net. Not trying to give "Distro Bull" or anything, but have you tried a net install rather than a CD install?
