Ahh... Don't give up yet, there's still my sound card to configure!!!!! The next step will be a little harder... figuring out how to get either GNOME or KDE installed. That ought to be good for the other 4 weeks!
On the other hand, I was very pleased to get networking up in under an hour. Let's here it for that O'Reilly book again, plus a little sweat (previous experience) getting it up on Mandrake as well. Plus I used DSL and a hardware Firewall that acts as a DHCP server for the LAN side. This caused me to uncover some weirdness how I assumed I could configure/use LILO. I had a head scratching moment when I tried to insmod rtl8139. If gave me a whole bunch of dependency errors. I was beginning to dread another long haul. SO I figured that I better try depmod -a and see what popped up. Well what popped up was a complaint about modules not being found in /lib/modules/2.2.17.blah.mdk./... What the heck was Debian doing looking for modules in a Mandrake directory. Then light dawned on Marblehead! I booted from the LILO floppy I made as apart of the original Debian install and everything flew. So now there's a little more to learn about LILO. As for "our little twisted corner of the computing world...!" If it's really that twisted then it is a good match. Cheers, -rick -----Original Message----- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 5:01 PM To: debian-user Subject: Re: Getting to the GUI... On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:04:07AM -0800, Rick Commo wrote: > So here I sit looking at potato running WindowMaker and scratching my head! > But before I launch into the saga let me thank all who replied to my posts, > especially Manuel Reiter and David Wright. Besides giving me some insights, > their input kept me from scrubbing everything Debian off the disk in > disgust. > TUESDAY > WEDNESDAY > THURSDAY > FRIDAY > SATURDAY it took five days? you needed five days to get this working? five days? really? it's supposed to be FIVE WEEKS. someone's been slacking off, obviously. heads will roll! (welcome to our twisted corner of the computing world...!) -- It is always hazardous to ask "Why?" in science, but it is often interesting to do so just the same. -- Isaac Asimov, 'The Genetic Code' [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
