Re: Unable to boot install from CDs?
Have I missed something? Hints, concrete RTFMs, STFW are welcome.
Gregory
I don't know that I have much to add to this, but I do have a working
install. From my apt sources.list, here's the CD I used:
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64
Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch contrib main
The netinstall CD didn't work for me, but the one above got a basic
system installed just fine. I had a working Etch system, then got
greedy and tried to get some stuff working and hosed it. So I
reinstalled using the same CD above, got a minimal system running,
switched my dist to unstable, did the apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade thing. That got me a minimal unstable system and then it
was time for 'guess which gnome packages aren't broken' as the
placeholder package had some dependencies that weren't available.
apt-get install gdm nautilus metacity will get you a long way towards
a usable gnome desktop. I can't recall all of the packages I
installed.
I have this box in a pretty good state now and am in the process of
loading all of my audio CDs on to it. If I get my hands on another
AMD64 system, I'll take the time to write up what I did. Should have
done it the last time, oh well.
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