Re: 1.2 installation, more notes
I installed the system myself this weekend, and here are my notes.
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Vatiainen Heikki wrote:
> I have been installing Debian little by little so I could see what's going on.
> Here's the most recent findings.
> o XFSetup didn't work. The configuration utility seemed to work right but when
> it was the time to test the server the client was not able to connect to it.
> I had to use xf86config and it worked fine.
>
> o /usr/X11R6/lib wasn't added to /etc/ld.so.conf, but I guess this is already
> known
Ditto for both.
o I also had mysterious problems with TeX installation. dselect repeatedly
failing to configure texbin, resulting in all the remaining [la]tex
packages remaining unconfigured. When I manually used
dpkg --pending --configure, the configuration and installtion proceeded
without a hitch.
o I have an annoying problem with the login prompt. After booting, the
first prompt I get is Password: and not Username:. This happens on the
console, and not on the virtual terms. However, when I logout of any
terminal, console or virtual, the term shows the Password: prompt.
o I'm having problems recompiling the kernel. Compilation and module
installation proceeds smoothly (using kernel-sources-2.0.27_1.00 ), but
at boot time the slhc, slip and ppp modules I selected (and I suspect the
rest in that category) are not recognized/loaded. Even if I tell
make config to include slip/ppp/slhc in the kernel instead of as modules,
I cannot use slip or ppp. I noticed these modules were advertised as
being (NEW!) on the first compile.
The kludge I used was to compile the kernel with my specifications, but
use the /lib/modules/2.0.27-old directory instead of the one installed by
the make modules_install.
o Incidentally, I noticed the Latex2e distribution does not include a lot
of the style files mentioned in some Latex2e books, and that are found
with the teTeX distribution on our campus machines (specifically the
directories in /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex). I now have to
get these files from the campus and put them in the appropriate place on
my machine.
--prashanth
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