Re: install comments + question
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 02:32, Michael Kaminsky wrote:
> I finally got my new machine and armed with the advice of many people
> on this list, I aimed to install stable and upgrade to testing. The
> follow is my feedback:
>
> * I installed the base from a Windows 2000 partition which worked
> fine. The install kernel kept locking up on boot and it turns
> out I needed the idepci kernel. The problem now was that although
> it didn't lock up, it wouldn't recognize my notebook's Intel
> PRO/100 (builtin ethernet). Apparently in the 2.4 kernel, the
> eepro100 driver works with this card, but the install kernel
> couldn't find it.
>
> Long story, but many hours later I finally got a functional kernel
> on the machine via Windows. Ironically, I booted a Mandrake 2.4
> kernel I had on another machine to bootstrap Debian...Once I had
> network access I could install a kernel-image deb file, etc.
>
> Bottom line is that I got the machine functional (not fully
> installed yet) in about a half-day. BUT, I doubt there is any way
> a beginner could have pulled it off, IMHO. I was moving modules
> and kernels around, using multiple machines, multiple boot disks,
> etc. until it clicked. That's just to get the most minimal stable
> running.
>
> (The Debian claim is that stable is so stable because it works and
> doesn't really ever change. Problem with that is that the hardware
> changes underneath it and outdates--makes it UNstable anyway.)
>
> * That being said, apt-get is so much better than rpm. My
> dist-upgrade to testing had no problems. With minimal script
> updates, my new kernel + grub are working just fine. The new
> flexiblity is a real win.
>
> * QUESTION: The new notebook (A30p) has a Radeon Mobility card that
> happens to only be supported in the CVS version of XFree86
> (4.1.99.1) from this month. So I have to compile this
> ultra-bleeding edge X server, which is fine, but...
>
> How do I make the Debian packaging system think that I have the
> xserver-* packages installed. I want to be able to apt-get galeon
> for instance but not have it try to pull down those packages and
> install an X-server. Can I insert a dummy entry/package into some
> DB?
Look into the equivs package.
--mike
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