Re: Potato test installs
The install from scratch basically went OK?
This sounds that I may have the problems.
Phil.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 paulwade@greenbush.com wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
>
> > For my (and other people's) information; is anyone doing potato test
> > installs other than myself?
>
> I just did one and need to repeat it from scratch to be sure of anything I
> report. The CD set was made about 10 days ago so I'm going to make a new
> set to try it again. I have 3 identical machines so I don't have to wipe
> out what I have to do the next test. They all have these video cards with
> S3 Trio chips that I can't get X to work with other than the vga16
> xserver. I am going to put a genuine ATI card in the next one before I
> install along with a 3-button mouse. I want to see how well the install
> goes without hardware issues getting in the way. The machines are dual PII
> asus mboard with embedded SCSI controller and 128 mb. The one I did is
> running okay but I might have goofed a bit. I wanted to do a minimal
> install and then a series of add/test packages. Somehow I wound up with a
> lot more packages installed. This might be because I hit control-C in the
> first dselect run. My plans are to try a minimal install and an fully
> loaded one from scratch. After that I will try the same with slink
> followed by potato upgrades.
>
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