Re: Many install questions
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:40:04PM -0800, David B. Small wrote:
> I haven't been able to find an "install-help" list. If I've sent this
> to the wrong list, I'll be happy to resend to a different one.
>
> I have a well-aged Dell Dimension with, among other things, a Promise
> UDMA-66 card and an old CDROM drive.
>
> I was given 3 CD's of the potato release, and I intended to install
> this alongside W98 (this disk is already partitioned).
> By moving the UDMA-66 drive to the onboard EIDE controler, I was able
> to install from CD's (though it took several hours, either because the
> CDROM drive gave Read errors, or becasue the CD's were bad...I suspect
> both.), use APT to change the kernel to one friendlier to my Promise
> controller, adjust LILO and /etc/vfstab, and get things
> to---sort-of---work. There were all sorts of s/w missing, that I'd
> have expected. I tried adding packages from Corel Linux, to fix this,
> which was a mistake. So, now I'm starting over.
>
> Here are my questions (in decreasing order of importance to me)
>
> 1) Have other folks had trouble installing from potato CD's, or is it
> likely mine are bad.
I would expect that commercially-produced CD's are most likely good.
If they were made with CD-R or (especially) CD-RW there might be some
read problems. I just did a potato (2.2r2) installation from CD-R and
had no problems.
>
> 2) Is it possible to install directly to the UDMA drive, on the
> promise. (Stated differently: can I make an "install" diskette using
> the kernel with IDE patches?)
Yes.
> 3) Should there have been a file manager/explorer included, when I
> installed? (There wasn't...if none come standard, are there
> recommendations? Eazel/Nautilus? Konqueror? Others?
mc, gmc
>
> 4) Should there have been a GUI package manager? (or is apt-get/dpkg
> the only way to go?)
dselect, aptitude
>
> 5) Is there a printer adder/control panel (a la Corel Linux's)? If
> it's not standard, is there one other folks can recommend?
I use magicfilter + lprng. woody has printtool.
>
> 6) How can I get my Logitech USB mouse to work with this system?
> (It's less important, since I still have a psaux mouse from MS)
kernel-2.2.18 has some USB support backported from 2.4. I don't know
exactly what devices are supported.
Bob
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