At Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:09:15 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote:
> Last night (about midnight) I wrote an email to ask whether anyone ever
> managed to get 'X windows` to install on debian, but was unable to send
> (Host unknown (name server: mx.inodes. org. : host not found))(isp
> fault) as I had just spent 5 hours trying to get it to work on woody. I
> had previously tried to get it to work with potato and woody on three
> other boxes without success. I gave up and retired; tonight I put two
> new nic's( in two boxes), turned on the box I had been working on, and
> it recognized the nic, booted into `X` and then kde.
> Why?
> Could I have saved hours of frustration by rebooting at some point last
> night?
you'd need to give us a little more information about the troubles you
were having..
("in what way didn't it work?")
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