Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > > So back to good old debian. First I got the netinst cd and then tried > the debain-kde cd. So far so good. It asked for the isl3886 firmware > from a new medium but that was that. The wifi card did not work after > the install. Not debian's fault because I haven't been able to get the > card working with anythng but ndiswrapper. > > Lenny is a God send for those who don't want Ubuntu. Since you are an expert, Lenny is the right choice for you. Deb packages are slim and trim and do not bloat your system. Do look up madwifi drivers for wireless. Once your first system is up to date simply copy its contents to the new pc. Don't copy proc and the dir where you mount the copying device (generally mnt) or you will get into a loop that will fill up your recording medium. After that create proc and the mounting dir and edit your hostname, fstab, install grub etc in the second pc to get it up and running.
Here is my sources.lst file for Lenny in quotes "# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20090214-16:54]/ lenny contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20090214-16:54]/ lenny contrib main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib # Taken from the net deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main " -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
