Re: Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!
Liran Zvibel wrote:...
>Now for the problems:
>1) When I set the CD drive up it told me to that I should read
>linux/documentation/cdrom/sbpcd and then configure sbpcd.h
>the linux directory does not exists on my system, not does this file on
>any other directory.
That message is in the text of the sbpcd driver. The file is in the
linux kernel source code. There is a Debian package, but you haven't
loaded it. If your CD is working, you can safely ignore this message.
>
>[various X problems]
Is xbase properly installed? Check with `dpkg -l xbase'.
>6) Why isn't . in my path? I don't want to execute every program by
>./command. How do I put it in the path?
Don't put it in your path as superuser. As an ordinary user, add this line to
your .bash_profile and .bashrc:
export PATH=$PATH:.
or if you are using C shell (see below), this should go in .login and .cshrc:
setenv PATH $PATH:.
(I think)
You can also run those commands directly in an interactive session.
There are quite a lot of places where this command could be put:
/etc/profile should do it for all bash, Bourne shell and Korn shell users at
login time, unless they are using xdm to log in.
Once you get X working, it has its own configuration set up, both system-
wide and per user.
If /etc/environment exists (again for bash users), the bash form can go
in there. Other scripts ought to include /etc/environment (but check that
they really do.) For example, this is my /etc/profile:
==============================
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).
if [ -f /etc/environment ]
then
. /etc/environment
fi
ulimit -c unlimited
umask 022
PS1='\h:\w\$ ' export PS1
==============================
>
>7) When I installed the installation process said I can't install lilo in
>the / since it ends on the 1090th cylinder, will I be able to put lilo in
>the MBR? Should I just destroy everything, repartition and install again?
There is quite a lot to be said for keeping the root partition small: mine
is 50Mb, with /usr and /var on separate partitions. Make sure the root
partition is early in the disk and you should be OK. (This is to do with
PC BIOS limitations.)
>
>8) I don't have the kernel source in where it should be (I can't remember
>now, but you all know what I mean), and I can't (can I?) recompile the
>kernel so it doesn't try to find so many things at the beginning. BTW: gcc
>is the only program that I know that works (I didn't try something too
>fancy but I think it was enough).
Install the kernel source package; then you can build yourself a kernel
customised to your particular system.
>
>9) Here I would like to hear your opinion: I use C shell at my Uni. (here)
>what is better C shell or bash? (I don't know bash, so take that into
>consideration).
If you know C shell, use tcsh; if you know Bourne or Korn shell, use bash.
I never learnt C shell, so I don't like it and I use bash.
For writing scripts, use bash.
Debian installation always assumes bash is present; you would probably do
well to learn it, even if you decide to use tcsh as your normal shell.
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