Re: debian install
I encountered a similar problem when installing woody for the first time
using the 7 cd set. Could not just start X. However my problem was to do
with lacking i810 display drivers. Painstaking examination of the log files
unearthed the root cause.
I used cd 1 of 7 to install without foreknowledge that cd 1 of 7 puts into
service kernel 2.2.20-idepci with a limited set of drivers (only ide & pci).
Had I used the other cds (2,3, 4 or 5) to boot, I probably wouldn't have
experienced any difficulties.
My problem was resolved by installing and loading the necessary 2.2.20
driver modules present in one of the cds. The need to get ext3 journaling
filesystem working made me move to kernel 2.4.18-i686 which installed with
all necessary driver modules.
Although I found debian to be difficult at first, I just kept on trying and
struggled to resolve all issues one at a time. Today I even have KDE 3.1 and
Gnome2.2 neatly installed. Don't give up.
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Alphonse Ogulla, Nairobi Kenya.
Moderator - Kenya Linux User Group
Mail: aogulla@kenyalinux.or.ke
Web: http://www.kenyalinux.or.ke
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:35, ivan valdes [ivan_val@att.net] wrote.....
> guys i hate to say it but the deb install of the latest distro is
> beating me up badly, but i refuse to quit. i need help, i go through the
> nstall and have had problems getting the gui to work. at least this
> last time the screen popped up and subsequently crashed. most of the
> problems seem to stem from the mouse. originally i used a usb logitech
> optical and couldn't even get to first base with the gui so i changed to
> a ps/2, similar to an intellimouse , and at least the gui popped up
> though briefly, most of the error messages were from the mouse end.
> can somebody please showme how a usb mouse(going back with it) is
> configured? i posted this query already and had a quick response from
> the audience which helped but i'm still stuck.
> i use a 7cd set to install and run all 7 in the scan, do they have to be
> reinserted again for the unpacking and set up phase? this time it asked
> for 2 of them, don't know if i should have run them again though the
> program didn't ask for any others. thanks for your responses.
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