Debian newbie questions
Hi all,
I just finished (I hope) setting up debian on my home
desktop. I've been using Mandrake for quite some time
now, but got exposed to Debian when I switched my IPAQ
to Linux, and I thought I'd give it a try.
I set up a basic potato system, then tried to upgrade
it to woody. Everything seems to have finally worked
its way out (a few problems with different gnome
packages wanting to install the same *.png file, but I
got through that). However, I'm still struggling with
two kind-of bigish problems.
1. Cannot boot without the boot disk.
I've got a dual boot system with Win98 and Debian. I'm
using System Commander 2000 as my boot loader.
I'm using the same partitions that I used successfully
with Mandrake. hda1 is windows, hda2 is the swap, hda3
is Linux. I installed lilo as the boot loader in the
hda3 partition.
When I restart, System Commander only gives me the
options for Windows or a Floppy. I try to add the
partition, but the boot flag keeps getting cleared.
I've also used fdisk to set the partition as bootable.
The flag seems to stay set while I'm in Linux, but as
soon as I reboot, something clears it, and the
partition is non-bootable again.
Any idea what could be causing this? I'm at a total
loss here.
2. I ran into some trouble with dselect.
I selected a few things, then when I went to install,
I realized that dselect was going to uninstall a good
portion of my basic software. Clearly I had done
something wrong. I closed dselect and reopened it,
thinking that would clear my previous selections, but
(obviously) it didn't.
I ended up going back by hand and making sure all the
critical software remained installed. But that seems a
difficult way of doing things.
Is there any way to reset the dselect selections. I
tried R, D and U, but none of them seemed to do what I
want. I just want a way to tell it to leave everything
the way it is now. All installed software installed,
all uninstalled software uninstalled...
I think I ran into a similar problem with apt-get. I
had trouble installing an update to KDE (going to kde
2.2). I tried to use apt-get remove to remove a
conflicting package, but I kept getting the original
dependency errors. I was able to get around it using
dpkg, but it would be nice if I could clear apt-get
and start again fresh.
-Rich-
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