on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:28:07PM -0600, John Purser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:51 > > > > on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:25:03PM -0600, John Purser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I just re-installed Debian Woody for the umpteenth time and this time I > > > chose yes to tasksel and no to deselect. I got nothing installed and no > > > chance to choose a task. Does anyone have any idea what I did wrong? > > > > Skip both, or rather, just install a minimal system. > > > > Once you've got the system installed, use apt-get and/or dselect and/or > > aptitude, to install packages you need and/or want. You'll end up > > knowing what you've got, and lacking a lot of cruft on your system, > > better off for it.
> On the whole I agree. And it's a much better path to actually > understanding what I'm doing also. I think either I burned these CD's > incorrectly or parts of the install are broken on this version. I'm > betting on the former. > > Any idea why the installation doesn't recognize my NIC's? I just > installed Potato and it missed them too. I'm not really good at puzzling this stuff out, but detection is handled by probing, and if your system isn't probed properly, the NICs aren't found. You might try configuring them post-install, or researching the specific NICs for LILO options to get them configurated. The LNX-BBC is a hot little tool for system dignostics as well -- that's a bootable GNU/Linux-on-CD distro. http://www.lnxbbc.org/ -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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