I tried to do this same thing about 3 months ago on the same laptop. I believe I tried stable, testing and unstable and couldn't get X to work on any of them. I think I would've been able to work if I could've just upgraded to the latest version of X but that would've broken all sorts of dependencies.
I ended up going with FreeBSD. Installed the latest -current release, upgraded to the latest version of X from http://www.xfree86.org/ and had it working in no time. I can send you my X config files if you need. Dan On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:01:37 -0700 (PDT), Christopher Baus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. So after talking about Debian at the meeting, I went home and tried > to install sarge on my laptop. No go. I got the base system installed, > but on first boot it tries to go to X. Drivers are obviously messed up on > the Nvidia based box and I get a disconcerting looking fuzzy screen. > > Worse, I can't figure out how to continue the install w/out X. It is like > the bad old days all over again. At least in the bad old day X was an > advanced feature and you could always get a working command line based > system. Right now that doesn't seem to be the case with sarge... > > If somebody knows more about the new Debian install system, your advice is > appreciated. > > I'm also pulling down the FC2 iso's. Are all 4 required to install a base > system? > > -- > Christopher Baus > http://www.baus.net/ > Tahoe, Wine, and Linux. > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
