Well I put debian onto a machine tonight. After doing many RedHat installs
it was a different experiance.
Everything went quite smooth. I had a problem with the network card. First
because I had some suspect cards and at the same time I was not sure if it
was auto detecting them or if I had to work it out myself. After some
tinkering and lots of reinstalls I found a card that worked, an old
RealTek and the driver to use.
After that I let it get an address via DHCP and it was underway. Install
complete and the system was running.
I did a dselect and somehow managed to get it to install some extra stuff
from mirror.aarnet.edu.au. It was reasonably painless.
I then did a 'apt-get install netscape' and lo and behold about 10 seconds
later it was finished and netscape was there. I then did enlightenment and
eterm (something I was never able to get to run under RedHat) and it wall
worked fine (even Java in netscape).
I have to find out where the docs are and a few other things but basically
its Linux so I don't feel lost.
Um, I could get use to this, especially when I can just point it at
mirror.aarnet and install stuff very quickly!
Rodos
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