RE: Getting to the GUI...
Ahh... Don't give up yet, there's still my sound card to configure!!!!!
The next step will be a little harder... figuring out how to get either
GNOME or KDE installed. That ought to be good for the other 4 weeks!
On the other hand, I was very pleased to get networking up in under an hour.
Let's here it for that O'Reilly book again, plus a little sweat (previous
experience) getting it up on Mandrake as well. Plus I used DSL and a
hardware Firewall that acts as a DHCP server for the LAN side.
This caused me to uncover some weirdness how I assumed I could configure/use
LILO. I had a head scratching moment when I tried to insmod rtl8139. If
gave me a whole bunch of dependency errors. I was beginning to dread
another long haul. SO I figured that I better try depmod -a and see what
popped up. Well what popped up was a complaint about modules not being
found in /lib/modules/2.2.17.blah.mdk./... What the heck was Debian doing
looking for modules in a Mandrake directory. Then light dawned on
Marblehead! I booted from the LILO floppy I made as apart of the original
Debian install and everything flew. So now there's a little more to learn
about LILO.
As for "our little twisted corner of the computing world...!" If it's
really that twisted then it is a good match.
Cheers,
-rick
-----Original Message-----
From: will trillich [mailto:will@serensoft.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 5:01 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: Getting to the GUI...
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:04:07AM -0800, Rick Commo wrote:
> So here I sit looking at potato running WindowMaker and scratching my
head!
> But before I launch into the saga let me thank all who replied to my
posts,
> especially Manuel Reiter and David Wright. Besides giving me some
insights,
> their input kept me from scrubbing everything Debian off the disk in
> disgust.
> TUESDAY
> WEDNESDAY
> THURSDAY
> FRIDAY
> SATURDAY
it took five days? you needed five days to get this working? five
days? really?
it's supposed to be FIVE WEEKS. someone's been slacking off,
obviously. heads will roll!
(welcome to our twisted corner of the computing world...!)
--
It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often
interesting to do so just the same.
-- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code'
will@serensoft.com
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