Paul Wise wrote: > The /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot > Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) fixed this. Looks like grub2 > uses 1-based partition indexes instead of 0-based ones like grub1 did. AFAIK we're still not installing grub2 by default, are we? I see that you've already filed #473401 on grub-installer about this. > Despite choosing the desktop task in the tasksel section and a gnome > desktop in debian.exe, I didn't get a desktop login manager installed > and a graphical login started up. Looking at the tasks in aptitude seems > to show that gdm is only present in the Xfce desktop environment task. The gnome desktop task contains gnome-desktop-environment, which depends on gdm. Without gnome-desktop-environment, you shouldn't have gnome at all. So I don't understand what you're saying. > Thirdly my mouse is a serial mouse and there didn't seem to be any > obvious way to use it. The computer has a PS2 mouse port, but I don't > have a PS2 mouse for this computer. It is on /dev/ttyS1 rather than S0 > due to the positions of cables, usb sockets and stuff. Detecting serial mice tends to do bad things to serial UPSes and AFAIK debian has never auto-detected them. You will need to manually configure X. -- see shy jo
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