Eric S. Johansson wrote: > enabling shadow passwords question is expert friendly but if there's > ever a streamlined path, just assume a yes. FWIW the next release of the installer will not ask about shadow passwords and will generally be much less verbose in the whole second stage by default. > the X11 install is still as (un)friendly as ever. I have been spoiled > by the likes of Xandros and Windows because they just figure out what > video card is present without requiring someone to pull the top of the > system, and intuit video card profile from either the remnants of > silkscreening or an FCC ID number. Remember, I'm using a Frankenstein > box here. My selection process for video card was minimum dust and a 15 > pin connector on the back that fits a video cable. I don't believe my > junk box has a video card that was manufactured before 1997. And yes, > Windows 2000 and Xandros both properly identified the card but, bright > person that I am, I forgot to it write down. > > so now I have my boot prompt, X doesn't run because I didn't even try to > get the settings right. This could be a lack of read-edid and mdetect, I have not tried to go all the way and install X, so I'm not sure if base-config properly installs them first or not. -- see shy jo
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