MI wrote: > This Dell PE750 has a "Samsung SN-124" CD-ROM drive (as reported by the > BIOS), which is not recognized. Neither during install (even though I > booted from it to start the install), neither afterwards. The system is > up and running now, but there is no CD drive.
Do you know if this is an IDE, SCSI, or some other kind of CD drive? Did you try booting the 2.4 kernel to see if it does any better? > *** IPv6 problem > > A small but very annoying problem (because I found it hard to identify): > Sarge automatically configures ipv6 addresses. > > This causes various problems when there is no real ipv6 connectivity. In > particular, some DNS queries break because they are done through ipv6, > but it's not obvious. Other queries work. Any details about what exactly breaks? I have not heard of this problem before. > For an admin setting up a machine, it would be an excellent start, if it > were possible to use it as a base and do corrections like resizing > partitions and possibly adding more. This is supported. The automatic partitioning just sets up a proposed partition table and then lets you accept it unchanged, or edit it. You can select automatically setup partitions to delete or resize them, select any remaining free space (or other drives) and add more partitions to them, change filesystem types, etc. -- see shy jo
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