On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Marty Richards generated:
>Yep, this dselect thing is really fsck'd (imho). The rest of it seems ok so
>far, altho the 6 floppies needed for a standard non-cd-boot install was
>nearly enuf to force a return to Slack7.1. ;)
Define 'standard'. Of all the standard non-cd installs I've done with
Debian (and there've been a few... in fact I've almost forgotten how a
cd install goes now), I've never used more than 2 floppies.
>Now its up I guess its time to find what works and what doesn't... Anyone
>want to place a bet on whether X works out of the box? its all stocky
>standard hardware... (or did I need to find X stuff in that fscked dselect
>thing?)
apt-get install xserver-<your chipset>
and then you'll need to install fonts, wm, and some other stuff. OTOH,
dselect manages to install everything you need first go :)
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