On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:40:04PM -0800, David B. Small wrote: > I haven't been able to find an "install-help" list. If I've sent this > to the wrong list, I'll be happy to resend to a different one. > > I have a well-aged Dell Dimension with, among other things, a Promise > UDMA-66 card and an old CDROM drive. > > I was given 3 CD's of the potato release, and I intended to install > this alongside W98 (this disk is already partitioned). > By moving the UDMA-66 drive to the onboard EIDE controler, I was able > to install from CD's (though it took several hours, either because the > CDROM drive gave Read errors, or becasue the CD's were bad...I suspect > both.), use APT to change the kernel to one friendlier to my Promise > controller, adjust LILO and /etc/vfstab, and get things > to---sort-of---work. There were all sorts of s/w missing, that I'd > have expected. I tried adding packages from Corel Linux, to fix this, > which was a mistake. So, now I'm starting over. > > Here are my questions (in decreasing order of importance to me) > > 1) Have other folks had trouble installing from potato CD's, or is it > likely mine are bad.
I would expect that commercially-produced CD's are most likely good. If they were made with CD-R or (especially) CD-RW there might be some read problems. I just did a potato (2.2r2) installation from CD-R and had no problems. > > 2) Is it possible to install directly to the UDMA drive, on the > promise. (Stated differently: can I make an "install" diskette using > the kernel with IDE patches?) Yes. > 3) Should there have been a file manager/explorer included, when I > installed? (There wasn't...if none come standard, are there > recommendations? Eazel/Nautilus? Konqueror? Others? mc, gmc > > 4) Should there have been a GUI package manager? (or is apt-get/dpkg > the only way to go?) dselect, aptitude > > 5) Is there a printer adder/control panel (a la Corel Linux's)? If > it's not standard, is there one other folks can recommend? I use magicfilter + lprng. woody has printtool. > > 6) How can I get my Logitech USB mouse to work with this system? > (It's less important, since I still have a psaux mouse from MS) kernel-2.2.18 has some USB support backported from 2.4. I don't know exactly what devices are supported. Bob
