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On Friday 05 August 2005 13:43, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) wrote:

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One thing that I missed was that I did not scan Disk 1 from the set.

insert disk1 in drive and apt-cdrom add

after that apt-get update apt-get upgrade tasksel apt-get install <rest-of-the-universe>

Most of the desktop stuff is in the first 3 cds. jtd

Yea ! I see Debian Gnome. The mistake I made was that I did not scan Disk1 -partly coz of the prompt (insert any Debian disks..e.g. 2 of a set of 2 disks) after I scanned that disk, things went smooth. I went manual and installed x-window-system and gnome. Had a little trouble with X. The auto-config took /dev/input/mice which crashed X. I edited X configuration (all coz of my Lin Bible) that to /dev/psaux and Gnome is up!.

Now to rain on my own parade. No sound .. /dev/dsp no such device. I had Suse 9.1 with sound so my h/w is up to it. (Intel865GBF onboard sound)

The Gnome login screen now has no shut down option. earlier I installed the desktop from tasksel and that had the option. Now I just come to the login screen and push the power button Ok? Any key-comb to shutdown.

I setup fstab to read my NTFS partitions. trouble is non-root users can't get in. Fat partitions have the same setting ro,user,noauto and they work. What's with this ?

Nautilus keeps crashing - unstable Debian set?? I lost my desktop icons and right click on the desktop.

That apart Debian-gnome is super-fast and a treat to work on. I got ruby and freeRIDE running in no time.

Thanks a million, jtd Gishu