[oclug] base system ok on two machines

[Peter Timusk]

After I added 8 MB RAM to my old 486 Thinkpad 360SC I was able to 
install debian 3.0. I installed it after six floppies(rescue, root and 
4 driver disks) were used then went to network installing. I have 
learned the use of Apt. I have the base system installed. Next I am 
trying to install X using tasksel only selecting laptop systems and 
tex. So far anything more with tasksel has bombed for known and unknown 
reasons. Tex would be one tool I want to have as well as tex I would 
like to have R installed. I have someone's working web published XF86 
config file for this model laptop. I would like X on this old 486.

On both my AMD 850 MHz computer and the thinkpad I can get the 
"configure the network" step of the install. I can install the base 
system on both of them.

I am not spending any time repairing my fedora machine right now. I 
would rather repair X than reinstall because I had actually started to 
do some work using this system if only downloading palm programming 
stuff. I don't really like fedora but hey its free and seems to work 
until a recent update. Now X won't start. Everything was fine on this 
system for about two months.


other wise I am using WinXP on a Thinkpad T30 and my eMac for work and 
school.

Peter Timusk, B.Math, just trying to stay linear.