Damn, I wish I would have been able to make it yesterday, considering I've 
gotten back into debian for the first time in many, many years.

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Christopher Baus wrote:

I used to own an inspiron 2650, but never installed debian on it, FYI.

> Drivers are obviously messed up on the Nvidia based box and I get a
> disconcerting looking fuzzy screen.

You're talking about the nvidia binary X drivers, correct?  Those would 
work fine for me while in X, but the screen would get distorted once I 
leave X.  It's not hurting anything, and most of the time you can still 
see enough data on the console to do things, but nvidia has never fixed 
the problem or even really acknowledged it.  However, it only seems to 
happen with the 2650 line.

Alternatively, you can use the "nv" driver included with X, but the 
drawback is no DRI/xv support.

> Worse, I can't figure out how to continue the install w/out X.

Huh?  debian-installer is all curses based, as is the second stage 
base-config.  Where exactly do you need X to configure the system?

> I'm also pulling down the FC2 iso's.  Are all 4 required to install a base
> system?

Only the first two are needed to do a "workstation" install, IIRC.

RF

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