[Gllug] Re: Debian hopeless

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 07 Mar, Garry Heaton wrote:
> 

> 
> Unless you mean apt-get from the CD-ROMs I'm using the machine has no
> network connection and is joined to a broadband LAN so that option is
> ruled-out. In any case I was hoping to promote Debian in my teaching work
> but if hardware is such a non-starter then I'll stick with Fedora Core which
>  I installed on the same machine in about 20mins.

   Discover is on the Debian Woody set of CDs.
> 
> Debian detected the VIA-rhine ethernet contoller but then claimed it
> couldn't load a module for it. Work that one out. Even worse, I selected
> Partition Disk and nothing happened. Straight back to the menu.
> 

   I have had a network card driver module demand the I/O address and IRQ as
set for a card, refuse to accept the known settings used previously, but
then install the module after the settings I entered had been deleted.

   The current state of the installation and setup will affect the order in
which the menu is presented, so it may revert to a previous item such as
keyboard configuration in an attempt to ensure that it does not enter
garbage. I rarely need to change the suggested order unless I want to repeat
a previous step, so can normally enter the next item (with care, as it can
jump straight through a step if you hold the key down too long).
   A swap partition is formatted first, then / even if it is not the first
partition on the disc. If you try to format any other partition earlier you
will need to repeat that step.
   Debian does not make many assumptions about how you would like things
configured, so there tend to be more questions to answer during installation
rather than leave the system in the wrong state.


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Chris Bell

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