RE: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500
Hi,
I'm precising what I have done - may be you say me if I'm
doing wright and what I have to modify in my installation.
-I use a couple of CDs that I have burned (note that I have
not the option multi-CD),
-I make a partition and
-I continue to install the services suggested by the CD-ROM
(at that time, I dont'install any particular driver, neither
the network).
-I don't know what image is chosen but I give for path:
/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current
-after this my system is rebooted correctly and I continue
with installing packages - I choose tasksel and it'all.
-I use XF86Config of my previous Redhat and X server works fine
-problem with mouse - it is linked to gpmdata device; after a
painful work I realised that it worked only when I run gpm
-I tried to install the modem (it's a win modem, Lucent). This
seemed to be Ok with the ltmodem568 package.
-I tried to install a ppp connection but the same script I use
in RedHat didn't worked.
-I installed Enlightment and Gnome, but graphical interface more
bizarre and difficult to work than that one I have not seen!
Having so pain;-) I get back temporary to RedHat.
It's all I have experimented. I don't know if my CD-s are the
right one (I have no seen anywhere that vanilla flavour).
Another question, expect xf86setup, does there are in Debian any
text tool to configure different hardware?
Any clue, suggestion or precised experience (this definetly would
be the best) is helpful.
Regards,
Arian.
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Price, Tim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I succeeded in installing debian 2.2 on a compaq e500 - including getting
> the X server, mouse, internal modem, etc etc all going.
>
> I don't recall many of the details because everything just worked out of the
> box pretty much (except for the modem, which is an mwave winmodem, with
> GPLed kernel modules available)
>
> I recommend two things:
>
> 1) Check out http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/linux_armada_e500.html
> 2) Give progeny a try - I've installed the progeny (debian based) distro
> onto a coupla notebooks now and its worked beautifully on all of them.
>
> Stick with a debian based distribution, sure it seems a little harder if you
> come from the Red Hat/Mandrake world, but it is well worth it for the
> simplicity and power in the packaging system.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim Price
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arian Novruzi [mailto:a.novruzi@math.ubc.ca]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2001 15:49
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Debian 2.2 in Armada E500
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm wondering if somebody has succeded installing Debian
> > in a Armada E500, or in a laptop in general.
> >
> > Personally, I found installation of Debian quite frustrating, although
> > I like this Linux distribution. It's really pity that a dood
> > distribution
> > like Debian doesn't recognize nothing in my system while RedHat
> > recognizes all, without problem (expect modem - winmodem).
> > Another thing, I installed Gnome and Enlighment but the graphical
> > interface was so strange and difficult to work - I like the design of
> > Gnome under Redhat.
> >
> > After 4 attemps, I succede to install the X server and
> > finally the mouse.
> > But no success of installing the modem (I didnt' try the
> > ethernet card). Because of this I get back into RedHat but
> > I intend to try installing Debian again - because I like it
> > apt package.
> >
> > I appreciate any successful experiance with Debian on laptops or
> > any other clue (I'm not a linux expert - just a basic user).
> >
> > Thanks - arian
> >
> >
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