Re: thinking about installing Debian
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 09:54, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> > I just finished using the beta installer and I was happily surprised by
> > how easy it was to install onto my Powerbook. Of course this isn't an
> > old world machine, so I don't know how smooth it is with those.
> >
> I'm downloading the beta installer for my NewWorld iMac. Have you
> gotten X installed? (Anyone with an iMac and a working XFree86 config
> they'd like to share?)
First, make sure you reply to the Debian-ppc
<debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> lists. Not that I don't mind the mail
personally, but it'll be more useful on the list.
I didn't have much luck with the beta 4 installer. Specifically the
yaboot installer failed miserably and was a pain in the ass to fix. The
May 24th 2004 images for Sid worked wonderfully for me in this
respect. I would recommend trying the daily built images or at least
contacting the debian boot mailing list.
As far as X is concerned. I copied someone else's X config file and
used it to configure x. In debian you may (or may not) want to let
debconf manage your x configuration which means you can use something
along the lines of:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to configure your xserver.
Lakin Wecker
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