Re: Installing X on woody
Rob Weir <rweir@softhome.net> writes:
> Another frontend to try is 'aptitude'. It's quite nice and (to me) a
> lot friendlier than dselect.
> Of course, you probably just want to get your system working first;)
The easy way, it now seems to me, should be to start from scratch with
boot floppies from woody, skipping the brief potato phase of the
installation. But as I understand it, there are no boot floppies or
netinst CD images available for woody that don't suffer the
configuration-stage infinite loop that's been discussed here lately,
and my attempts to circumvent it by swapping around inittab and
inittab.real haven't worked (a little knowledge...). At this point, I
suppose I'll either wait for fixed boot disks to become available or
give up and install potato as such for the time being.
I'm not seriously complaining; certainly there are things I _could_ do
if I _had_ to have that machine running Debian (or some other) Linux
by nightfall. My timing is unfortunate, is all, and I should pipe
down and let those who are working on the next release get on with it.
I may even tackle some of the real work on the desk beside me to take
my mind off Linux.
Cheers,
Michael
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