Harry, I'm curious what kind of problems you are having specifically. I did a netinst install of Woody two weeks ago, with absoutely no prior Debian experience, and I was able to get a working system in about two days (less if I had known what I've found out now). This is a lot more work than Mandrake or SuSE, but honestly my system is running better too...
How did you setup X? Did you try running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"? -Tim On Thursday 28 February 2002 11:38 am, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone who wants the official 6 CD set of woody 3.0 > Can send me an address privately. First one I get in my inbox with > snailmail address will get the cds mailed to them. > > I've burned up 2 full days, gotten no help whatever from the list. > Found the install routines to be unusable. > > All I hear from Woody is `can't won't or doesn't' And this on a > machine that has had 2 flavors of linux, 2 of the BSDs and Solaris > (intel) install successfully. Hardware recognized etc. > > My nic is not found, X doesn't run, I get a message after the install > that there were errors during install. Please fix the errors > mentioned above... none are mentioned. I've tried the simplicity of > Tasksel and the labor instensive dselect hell, 3 fullbore tries at > installing. > > I have a non-functional system at the end of 2 days. > When I see things so basic like the names referred to when the > different cds are requested during package install. The names the > routine asks for are nowhere on my CDs. Not that hard to see what is > really meant but only because I'm already familiar with some of the > lingo. > > Maybe I got hoodwinked getting them from `The sphere' > > When I see things like that gauranteed to cause confusion, I know that > at the Debian organization someone is asleep at the switch. And can > rest assured that I will be in for lots of unnecessary grief caused by > `loose' organization and homeboy packaging. > > One has to think, what else is poorly done here. > > But then again for someone who enjoys major unnecessary tinkering. > Relentless `fixes' and the like, Here is a chance to get a setup that > will keep you busy for a long time, and absolutely free. I'll pay the > postage too. > > Maybe I should have tried the released version, but something about > the name `potato' puts one in mind of a large overweight weak > vegetable lying on a couch. > > At least `woody' sounded...... well .... erect :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
