I want to thank the person who made the suggestion last week to download the Potato installation disks and installing a Potato system from scratch. I downloaded resc1440.bin, root1440.bin and base2_2.tgz (16MB, so that took a while), but after that I had a new system in a matter of minutes.
During the installation I checked the modules and to my surprise the ESS Solo 1 sound chip was also listed. Alas, the module couldn't be found, but that it not of such importance right now. I got the ppp connections to my ISP working, but in the base system there is (again) no possibility to read man pages. I couldn't find the apt-get man page on the Debian homepage, so I'll fiddle a little myself later today. But I've always wondered about one thing: how do you know the name of the package you want to install. At least with dselect you have a menu to search. Now I want to install Midnight Commander, so I guess that is "apt-get -d install mc" (I'd like to download the package as well for use on another machine and I've read the -d flag will do that). But now I want to install X, so is "apt-get -d install X" right? Then how do I choose that the right server is being downloaded? This always puzzled me a bit, but I guess the answer will come in time :-) Anyways, I'm happy to have a Potato system too now. -- Hans
