Re: Debian woes
>Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out.
You are pardoned.
>Where the heck can I get a CD with a WORKING debian distribution on it?
>I've tried LDR, LSL's Trilinux, and stuff I've FTP'd. I've yet to get 1.3
>to work.
Dunno; I did my installation with the base1_3.tgz file and LOADLIN from a
DOS partition. After that I used dpkg-ftp to install other packages.
>Since I intended to format the drive Linux lived on anyway, I thought I'd
>see what the different distributions looked like. Sorry to say, slakware
>and redhat installed just fine, debian demonstrated the epitome of bagbiter.
>
>It looked like it might work, but it crapped out big-time when it cam time
>to install X. In fact, errors to the degree that there were missing links,
>and xf86config couldn't run.
>
>I've used debian before, and it worked great! I like it! Is there something
>I've done wrong? All I did was a new install...
It might perhaps help if you explained where exactly the problems were,
how you tried to install, what didn't work, etc. Your problem is rather
vauge as it stands.
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