Dear Debian users/developers,
I have a few questions which arised during my (successful) installation of
Debian 2.0 on a Thinkpad 760 CD. Please consider that this is my first Linux
installation at all and have mercy.
1) When trying mtools from my personal account, I get the error message
"cannot open /dev/fd0
permission denied
cannot initialize A:"
Adding /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab with user,noauto does not help (and it
should not). I have the system-made /etc/mtools.conf in which I just
commented out the line with the SCSI disk and uncommented the one
with the IDE disk (c: /dev/hda1 , where dos resides). None of this
changes the situation.
Do I have to change privileges somewhere?
2) When pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL (programmed to halt the system in inittab),
the machine halts but is not powered off. Is this because I have not
chosen the APM package during installation (overlooked it, probably)?
Do I solve the problem by going into dselect and installing that
package?
3) Just after running XF86Setup, I noticed a file /use/X11R6/bin/X: is that
a copy of XF86_VGA16?
Later, I renamed it to Xold (probably I could have deleted it), created
a file X and linked it to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. As a matter of fact,
X works. Is the above correct?
4) In XF86Setup, I chose a mouse sample rate of 0 (since I did not see any
effect in changing it): what is this rate?
5) Is there no dos2unix in the distribution?
6) Keyboard in X: in a previous XFree release, there was a en_GB keymap to
be declared in XF86Config (I have a UK keyboard). What is the present
version's replacement for that?
7) While installing ppp, I got the warning that serial.o (whatever it is)
should have been installed manually later. During boot there is a
message about a serial module being manually loaded. Is that the same
thing?
8) tgif and pgplot (both non-free, graphics and libraries, respectively)
where not on my CDs (official 2-CD set from Christian Schwarz). Is
this usual? Should I load them via FTP using dselect?
9) Seyon suggests kermit, which is not in the distribution (orphaned
package ckermit). What can be done?
Thank you for your help.
Once I have configured everything, I'll post my experience in a detailed way
to the relevant WWW pages.
Remo
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| Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute |
| Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI |
| Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland |
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| badii "at" psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii |
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