AgustinCórdoba
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Posted: Oct. 24 2004,14:35 |
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Installed DSL onto the 2nd partition (300Mb). First patition is Win98 Fat32. Ths hard drive plugs in through a Promise 133 card as I have multiple hard drives.
As I was putting it on a box already running Debian Sarge and two versions of the Spanish Guadalinex, selecting OS on boot using GRUB, I deselected the install option for LiLo boot, subsequently putting in a new entry for GRUB. Was slightly confused because I expected vmlinuz in /boot when in fact it is linux24, but after a couple of errors I got it right.
Got Synaptic running adequately, though I ran into dependency problems when I wanted to install something called newsx so I opted out and installed knode instead (though I really wanted pan)
Hardest has been finding the right browser. I like the modified version of Links, but it does have a few limitations (mostly to do with copying and pasting from the browser window). I tried to install Firefox 1.0PR but got a dependency problem (error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so 0: cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory) which I have been unable to solve. The MyDsl installable version of Firefox is 0.8 and mozilla.org flashes a security warning when this version is detected. I thought of looking at 0.93 in the Debian repositories, but cannot remember how to do this from a command line with apt-get.
For the moment I have installed Opera from MyDsl, but I feel much less at home with it.
In my case there is a regional difficulty, as I do a lot of my typing in Spanish and need to be able to configure a Spanish keyboard (I had forgotten that the keyboard could be selected using the CD-run system but not on the HD-installed version); this is a minor issue except that accents don't work, which meant I had some trouble logging in this afternoon.
Everything is seems to be working fine, with the accustomed Debian stability.
Sylpheed is a fine email client; not quite in the Thunderbird league (but much lighter). I'll probably try using Calypso once I-ve got Wine running.
I'm not quite sure which viewer to use for .avi files. Now I have to check the instant messengers.
Regards
Agustin
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