First, excuse the longwindedness, I thought the background may be relevent.
I was installing 2.2r3 from an official CD set I got from linux central , things were going pretty well (except for a few failed module/driver installs) The base install whent fine, I selected task packages with apt and the Debian Task Selector, then onto anXious. My video card was successfully detected and said that mach 64 server will be installed. Next the fonts, I chose to install both 75 and 100 dpi, but on this screen I can not choose/select/get to the OK or cancel options/buttons/menu items. I am stuck on this Debian Config screen with no way out but the vulcan nerve pinch. So I reboot w/o the CD and get a login prompt and am able to use the system (console mode/command line only) for the last two weeks. During this time I learn a little about GNU/Linux, play with adduser, vi, lilo.conf, mount ans some others, but have the following problems: man does not work at all, I edited my $MANPATH but to no avail, i found a bunch of .gz man files, do I have to unzip them all manually? Then I could not find any package files for X11R6, the directory was there in /usr? i think but no files in X11R6/bin which made me think the package installation did complete. So I pulled an all nighter last night, zeroed my hard drive, installed win98se, and installed debian gnu/linux again, and go the same problem. So here I am stuck on the anXious fonts screen again. The system is not hung as i can move between the 75 and 100 dpi choices with my arroiw keys and toggle the choioces on and off with the spacebar but I can not select <OK> or <cancel> to move on to the next step. Please offer suggestions as to my best options. Will I have to download the packages manually on my windows partition then learn how to install them manually from my windows partition? Is my new CD defective, has anbody ever heard of a problem like this before? Thanks. Markout. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
