James Caldow:
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> I was happy like this for a while and was loving everything about
> Debian. Then I began to get adventurous. I wanted to see what I was
> missing with Debian Sid. I liked the idea of more up to date software
> and a more current development environment to play with.
If you plan to stay with sid, please install apt-listbugs and
apt-listchanges. They can display bugreports, changelogs and news items
when installing or upgrading packages.
<lecture mode="curtain">
Please note that using sid sometimes requires you to work around minor
or major problems yourself. By using sid you implicitly agree not to
whine about broken software and to report problems to the bts
(bugs.debian.org).
That also means that you are expected to fix a lot of things yourself,
at least on your own system. If you have been reading this list for some
time, you might have noticed some hostility towards (obvious) newbies
using sid when they are seeking help for "trivial" problems.
That said, nobody expects you to know everything, but you should know
some basic Debian documentation (See http://debian.org/doc for the FAQ
and Reference) and you should follow news and announcements because some
of them directly affect sid. The mailing lists debian-announce,
debian-devel-announce and debian-news might be of interest.
Even if you don't understand everything (esp. in d-d-a), you get a good
impression of how the project works and you will be warned in advance
when sid is undergoing significant changes.
</lecture>
> Using a Sarge net-install disc I set about the install process again
Of course it is too late now, but: except for downgrades or totally
hosed systems, there is no need to reinstall. Upgrading to sid or etch
is as easy as adding the appropriate lines to your sources.list and
'aptitude dist-upgrade'.
> and using the expert options I selected the unstable sources. After
> flying through all of the initial setup tasksel choked on the desktop
> environment task. It would complain incessantly about unmet
> dependencies with the Openoffice.org-kde package.
That may be related to the current transition to OpenOffice.org 2.0 in
sid. Many of the older extra packages for OOo aren't necessary anymore,
but probably the tasks (which were designed for sarge) haven't been
updated.
> The problem started after a reboot. When the laptop rebooted the
> Wireless card powered on but wouldn't connect. Once logged in I had to
> manually do "ifup eth1" as root to get connected. Not a huge deal, but
> annoying enough if you have to do it after every reboot!
If all you need is to ifup the device, you are probably just missing an
'auto ethX' line in your /etc/network/interfaces. man 5 interfaces.
J.
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