Bug#230552: installation report: IBM Thinkpad X23
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:50:28 +0100
> From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
> To: Debian User <ddj@gyxi.dk>
> Subject: Re: installation report: IBM Thinkpad X23
>
> * Debian User <ddj@gyxi.dk> [2004-01-31 20:11]:
> > DHCP worked, but had trouble with setup of static ip-address.
> > To this day I've have never been able to figure out how
> > to fix an ip-address to my card. This in spite that I have
> > used Debian exclusively for over three years! Sigh!
>
> What problems did you encounter exactly when configuring a static
> address?
I cannot even remember now. I had trouble finding documentation
and had little experience with this kind of configuration
on Debian too. The problem is solved with some of the more
recently included examples in /etc/dhclient.conf, where I use
this (I deleted most of the comments from the file) which is
currently working:
#alias {
# interface "eth0";
# fixed-address 192.5.5.213;
# option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
#}
alias {
interface "eth0";
fixed-address 192.168.1.66;
}
lease {
interface "eth0";
fixed-address 192.168.1.66;
}
> > Postconfiguration are becoming harder and harder with Debian.
> > It used to be easy. I'm thrilled with the new installer,
> > but dead tired of cleaning up afterwards.
> >
> > I have a long list of modules where I don't even use half
> > of them. And dealing with alternatives, dozens of files
>
> There are so many modules because of the automatic hardware detection.
> If you don't want them to be loaded, simply put the modules you really
> need in /etc/modules, and remove the discover package.
[...]
> They don't really hurt and discover makes the detection of hardware
> easy. You can simply remove it if you don't want this.
Hmmm, I _do_ like the hardware detection despite the long
booting time. Thanks for the suggestion! :-) I wasn't aware
of discover until now.
> Can you give the image at
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ a go and let me
> know how that feels: if there are any new problems, regressions, etc.
Yes. I'm currently studying for my exams, but this summer I'll
have time for your suggestions. I'll let you know how it turns
out when the time comes.
Currently everything seems rather stable, even though I'm running
unstable! I've done a couple of "apt-get dist-upgrade" and several
"apt-get update" & "apt-get upgrade" without problems including
3 kernel upgrades, from 2.24 to 2.26 -- I'm actually very impressed
with this: I haven't been able to do this so well in the past.
Over time I've noticed how support for Thinkpads have improved
including hardware detection: It is a great computer. And greater
still with Debian.
The most serious problem I've had, has been bloat of packages; my
system is currently weighing in about 3.4GiB with 515 packages
counting "dpkg --get-selections": Not bad, not bad at all!
N.B. I don't use Gnome, KDE or anything else resembling them
but the minimalistic window-managers 9wm and lwm. It should
be noted that part of this "problem" stems from the fact that
I have a very strong tendency to just install packages to try
something out, new software, a new editor, a new programming
language or what ever my heart desires: Debian with apt-get
and 12000+ packages available makes this extremely easy!
Ad summa: I haven't encountered any serious problems in a very
long time. Thanks!
I'll report back after trying the sarge installer from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/
out this summer.
--
Dennis Decker Jensen
dennisdjensen@tiscali.dk
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