On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Daniel Haude wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote: > > > smoothly as it should have (for whatever reason). Although this > > next idea is a child of the Windows mentality, you might want to > > redo the install from the beginning. A more experienced person > > would fix the problem rather than reinstall, but a newbie from > > the Microsoft world might find a reinstall both educational and > > helpful.
1) You might first trying to get up by using your debian resc disk. You might go trough installation process and see, which parts are necessary to do... or jusat try to get it started and see, which partitions are corrupted... It is best to use different consoles to examone the system. Hit ctrl-alt-F1 atrl-alt-F2 etc to get to consoles. (That trick is the first thing to do as well, if your x is hanging. You can use 'top' and kill the whole x from another console, if it hangs... If the whole keyboard is tilted then you cannot do nothing, I guess... I managed to contact this beast by using another networked machine and kill x from there once when the x was jammed totally wtih the keyboard...) 2) Basically, if you didn't have to install any non-standard-slink packages during your install it isn't so big job to reinstall the wole thing again. (In my case even the standard xf86 din't work and it took 2 months to find a working configuration for this ethernet card... and I've now realized that I needed to repartiotion the disk... I really don't like the idea to reinstall. I did it already at least ten times for this machine, two times for my home-machine.) > The reason for this is that the Debian package management is quite non- > intuitive, but it works great once you've got it figured out. During the > package selecting/configuring phase of my first install, I missed the > significance of many package settings or interrelationships between > packages and didn't understand what dselect tried to tell me about it. So > I ended up with a buggy, non-working installation. Much of my trouble, > however, was in my case also owed to a definitely faulty hardware. One problem is that it doesn't even tell you about some configuration-programs available and how to use them... (for example magifilterconfig for printers...) during the installation-process as for example SuSE is doing... hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
