RE: Need some guidance on a IBM G40
Yes, I mean boot from the CD.
About the boot: I don't sure about Sid, but I think that Sarge can do
it boot without any problem.
Just try, but if not I recommend to you just install the base system and
after it when the system do reboot and
after it ask you for CD resources give the CD that you have (I mean the
Sid ones).
And one more think, if you are new with Debian I think that maybe is to
risk use Sid, maybe is better start with Sarge
that is almost stable.
Gustavo Halperin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Zhu [mailto:zhu.arthur@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:24 AM
To: Gustavo Halperin
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Need some guidance on a IBM G40
Thanks for the advice. When you say 'start again from the start' do you
mean boot the machine with say Sid CD1 and wipe out the previous
installation?
But Sid is supposed to be only used for upgrade not installation from
start?
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:56:48 +0200, Gustavo Halperin
<gustavo.halperin@amdocs.com> wrote:
>
>
> I recommend to you start again from the start but with Debian Sid or
> Sarge, and not update the Debian
> 3.0r2 that I suppose is the Debian Woody. The problem is that in my
> experiences, the upgrade is not always do it for all, and probably you
> never will know which packages wasn't upgrade because you have the old
> ones.
>
> In the case that you still want to upgrade, did you do the base-config
> stage ??, any way, my suggest is do the upgrade as soon as possible.
>
> Gustavo Halperin
> Amdocs R&D Division
> ABP - Pricing Engine
> * +972 977 61442
> * +972 977 61783
> * <mailto:gustavoh@amdocs.com>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Zhu [mailto:zhu.arthur@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 9:47 AM
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Need some guidance on a IBM G40
>
> Hi,
>
> As a debian newbie I would like to give Woody a go on my newly
> acquired IBM G40. P4 3.0GHz, 512MB RAM and 60GB HDD.
>
> I resized the NTFS partition put a basic Debian system (3.0r2) on and
> I am back at a command prompt.
>
> I haven't tried out X server or anything and I searched the Net for
> some hints and the things I found are more a 'finished' installation
> for advanced users without any further details. It seems like I need
> XFree86 4.3.0 - I am running a bare system with kernel 2.4.18 coming
> with the woody and also 9 Sid CDs (2004 July 3 version) from a friend.
>
> What should I do next? compile a kernel? Or do a dist upgrade? I am
> really lost here. Any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Arthur Zhu
>
>
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