Tue, 05 Sep skrev Helgi Örn: > Greetings all ye Debians! > > I gave it another go; installed Debian 2.2 'potato', this time only a > minimal installation although with GNOME, which turned out to be a flop > of course: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > gmc > gnome-control-center > gnome-help [snip] > GNOME turned out to be one small terminal (without a frame) in the upper > left corner of the screen, on a neutral- grey background, nothing else.
If you really want to use GNOME, just skip gnome when you install debian, then add 'deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main' to your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update and apt-get install task-gnome-desktop. I guess that's closer to what you want. But, hey I'm not sure how well this works with potato, maybe you have to use woody. > > ----------------------------------------- [snip lp] > ------------------------------------------ > > wvdial didn't find the modem (I'm used to wvdial 'always' finding the > modem on first attempt!) which is a Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO on > ttyS0. Hmm, do you try this as root or as a normal user? Maybe you have to add your self into the group which own the device. > > ------------------------------------------- > > Window Maker seems to be the default window manager, what happened to > fvwm? I can't find it on the CDROM. It should be there if this is an official Debian potato cd. At least the file ~debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/fvwm_2.2.4-2.deb exist in my potato-mirror. > ------------------------------------------- > > I will be very grateful for all hints that can help me configuring this > wild potato. -- Åsmund Ødegård Scientific Programmer, TPV, Ifi, UiO http://www.ifi.uio.no/~aasmundo/ j: 22 84 00 63 - m: 90 06 99 15 -- auto sig -- APO 18 19 Så kom de til Efesus; der lot han de andre bli tilbake, og selv gikk han inn i synagogen og gav sig i samtale med jødene.
