Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: I ordered the disc from Debian, and installed from
them
uname -a: I can run ok on the shell / command line
Date: 12/20/2005
Method: Just booted off the discs...the install ran fine, except...
Machine: It's an old HP P3
Processor: 500mgz
Memory: 384mb
Root Device: cdrom SCSI? Name of device?>
Root Size/partition table: <Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.>
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [x ]
Configure network HW: [x ]
Config network: [? ]
Detect CD: [x ]
Load installer modules: [? ]
Detect hard drives: [x ]
Partition hard drives: [x ]
Create file systems: [x ]
Mount partitions: [x ]
Install base system: [x ]
Install boot loader: [x ]
Reboot: [x ]
Comments/Problems:
Just can't seem to figure out how to install the gnome window thing. I'm
looking for a way to help some older folks with older machines, and thought
this might be a good shot, but I'm having trouble using the installer
atitude...seems to have one for me. Funny thing whenever booting too...there
is like a shimmy in the screen...like it trys to load something and
can't...I wonder if it's trying to get the gnome up...and can't for some
reason. Anyway, I've tried 3 times now, and it's the same thing. Really
don't expect these simple users to work in a command line
envirornment...they need some kind of window envirornment...
Rich Gosselin
Online since 1983
....Tacit knowledge is a characteristic of experts, who often have no
explicit theory of their work: they simply perform skillfully...
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