[Gllug] Debian file system
NorthLondon John
northlondonjohn at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 3 22:05:20 UTC 2004
On 3 May 2004, at 20:32, Rich Walker wrote:
> NorthLondon John <northlondonjohn at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've spent much of the last two days installing Debian on an old
>> (266mhz, 64mb ram) laptop, using
>> the 4th beta of the new installer.
>> It's been a horrendous experience, and if I hadn't spent so much time
>> on it, and hadn't got most
>> things working, I'd dump it for slackware.
>
> You have filed bug reports on the problems with the install?
For those specific to the new installer, yes. (It's the rtl 8139
drivers).
>
>> The last hardware problem I have is with the cdrom. This is acessible
>> by root, but not by any
>> users. It's not a permissions problem - the error I get when trying,
>> eg, to play an audio cd, is:
Well, duh, it was a permissions problem. Still getting the hang of
these groups :)
Performance and apt-get can wait till tomorrow.
Thanks for the answers,
John
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