..or finaly, a good use for that windows partition.
At Linux Expo I picked up the Debian disks from Everything Linux and took 'em
home. Now my home machine is a Dell Inspiron 3500 Laptop which run Redhat
nicely and contained a 1.4Gb windows partition. And with a an evil grin I
realized that I had finally found a use for that partition.
So I installed Debian. The install went well. PCMCIA worked like a treat which,
given a previous Slug thread on Debian, laptops and PCMCIA, had me worried. THe
firt problem was that I stuffed Lilo up. Promises of beer elicited help from my
roommate to fix that issue.
The biggest problem was in getting X Wndows to work. First problem was that the
font paths in XF8Config were screwed. I bit of digging around on Google got me
the answer. All I had to do was copy the paths from another file (xfs config
IIRC.My memory is gone here) and I had Afterstep running. Of course the mouse
refused to cooperate then.
Checking Redhat, the XF86Config seemed happy with PS-2 as the mouse yet Debian
did not like this. So with a wild guess I edited Debian's XF86Config mouse
to "Microsoft" and things were sweet. Hey, it works.
As PCMCIA was working it was easy to get it onto the network at work and use
apt-get to download and install gnome. All very slick and quite easy. So it is
running nicely.
I will be staying with Redhat mainly because I have spent a lot of time getting
the it just the way I want it. When I get another desktop though, Debian will
get much more attention (though I intend to play with it on the laptop of
course). Apt-get is sweet and was so easy to use. I'm impressed.
I must admit, even with the trouble I had, the whole process was quite fun.
Two questions for the deb heads.
One: Browser reccomendations? I use Mozilla on Redhat but would like to explore
the alternatives.
Two: Has anyone tried Evolution on Debian?
Thanks,
Shaun
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