Hello, bored of the rubbish that slackware blows on my disk, I looked for an alternative - and found debian.
Yesterday I tried to install the base-disks from buzz-fixed/binary-i386/disks (feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de). I ran into some problems which are not mentioned in the FAQs I found... The problems seem to have started when /root/.configure got the control: - I misspelled the password for the user acount I was asked for. Result: A broken useraccount and a request for another useraccount. This is not realy a problem to me but it's ugly and maybe very confusing to newcomers... - The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to "con80x25" on my system which caused dselect to print an error-message and exit - no possibility to install additional packages... (Error-Message something like "Error opening terminal: con80x25.") The second problem is still there - I can't get an editor, dselect or similar unless I set&export TERM=linux manually. And - worse - I can't find where TERM is set to the confusing value. What did I do wrong? Jens Peter.
