On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:45:05AM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote:
> Dear debian-user List Friends:
>
> I have been following the Potato and Helix-Gnome discussions, and decided
> to try the setup. I downloaded last weeks version of Potato, and it works
> fine. I purchased the Helix-Gnome disk, and it works - at least with Red
> Hat. I have unsuccessfully tried the Potato-Helix combination on two
> completely different computers, so the problem must be mine. I begin with
> the the Potato installation, and when it gets to the apt-get section, I
> include the Helix-Gnome CD. Potato sees the Helix-Gnome CD fine, and I
> select the three Helix-Gnome boxes in the apt-get "simple" selection area.
> I then continue the installation, and all works fine until apt-get begins
> the actual installation of the packages. Then the messages (describing
> which packages are to be installed) appear at different starting points on
> the screen. The last message is: "Do you want to continue? [Y/n]" At this
> point the computer freezes and will not respond to a typed Y (enter) or any
> other keyboard action.
>
> My hope is to use the Debian/Helix-Gnome combination on computers at an
> elementary school. Any help on this problem would be very much appreciated!!!
>
> p.s. I have also tried installing Helix-Gnome after completing a
> Potato-only installation. Potato installs fine. But when I begin the
> Helix-Gnome part, directly from the CD as per Helix-Gnome instructions, the
> same screen freezing occurs.
Sounds very odd.
I don't know the CD-edition, so it might be there the problem is.
I know this is probably a redundant question, but are there *.deb's on
the CD('s)?
Can your drive read other CD's?
I've had some problems once with a CD-drive that was defective, it
sometimes hung the 'puter, but that was Windows I think ...
I use dselect/apt for all things Debian, and I have had no problems[1]
with the line:
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
in my /etc/apt/sources.list.
HTH.
Regards
Morten
[1] Except for some dependencies that Potato couldn't fulfill, easily
fixed with an upgrade of the relevant packages to Woody.
--
Morten Liebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"
