[Wolves] Debian

[Kevanf1]

Isn't Xandros based on Debian?  I got that running apart from the
Creative Soundblaster card - ISA AWE32 which point blank refused. 
That was despite a lot technical help from way more experienced people
than myself.  But then this was on beta testing CD's.


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:02:07 +0000, David Goodwin <dg at clocksoft.com> wrote:
> Chris Ball wrote:
> 
> 
> > Well, i've just finished installing Debian for the first time, as a test
> > server for work, and I have to say, the install was not as bad as I
> > thought it would be.
> >
> > I'm just waiting for dselect to finish downloading all the stuff now.
> >
> > Would this be as easy at home with my Nforce2 Motherboard and 5.1 Sound
> > Card?
> 
> 
> *shrug*
> I've not tried installing debian on a machine with funky hardware. In
> such circumstances, if Debian is unable to detect the hardware I'd
> suspect that installing via knoppix/morphix/ubuntu live cd would be
> better - in that more hardware would be detected and configured etc.
> 
> David.
> 
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