CF wrote:
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 20:28, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
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.
I'll grab a 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet adaptor so I can try using my Terminator 1100 to do the install onto the laptop...
Its really weird when I try running the installation under Mandrake. I get to the point of manually selecting packages, and all the stuff I want is not listed for selection...
With Debian all the packages are listed using dselect, but when I try to select one it cannot select all the dependencies as well...
I guess its (lack of) memory related, so I will upgrade to 128MB when I get some money together...
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
