hi The february issue of <a href="http://www.linuxpro.it";>linuxpro</a>, an italian magazine, contains a snapshot of Debian sarge, either as a DVD or in 4 CDs. I bought it; I already have upgraded woody to sarge; but I wanted to try to install it from scratch. It all went reasonably well, but for these issues: 1) the boot loader has the parameter "vga=normal" (I found it in /cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg) ; the resulting video mode is incompatible with my video cards; namely, first PC is a notebook with a sis630 video; second PC is attached to a television, with a GeForce2 mx440. Pressing F4 at boot prompt, it told me to use the boot option "video=vga16:off" but this is no help; the html docs suggest to use "nolangchooser" but this was no help either; I had to fish into Knoppix to find the command "vga=771" that does work. 2) I was never asked for the keyboard that I use; so I had to enter all commands by searching for the keys 3) altough there is a general menu, with all install steps, I did not ever see it, but I instead quickly stepped through the installation; so I had no way to choose Grub instead of Lilo, or to tell the installer to NOT install lilo; this was a problem for me, because I lost access to my usual Debian system; since this linuxpro DVD does not have rescue capabilities, I had to use Knoppix to reinstall grub, to go back to my usual desktop. 4) to do this test, I reformatted my 256MB swap partition as ext2; when I reached "tasksel", I just choose "laptop", and I found out that this needs much more than 256MB; then I ended up in a dead situation, where the disk was completely full, and dpkg was unable to do anything (since it could not even save /var/lib/dpkg/status); there ended my experience at install. 5) by default, people that choose to use "tasksel" will install gcc and all the companions... why? this uses a lot more disk space, whereas many desktop users do not need gcc at all. a. -- Andrea Mennucc "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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