[KLUG Members] Debian Installation Issues ( Woody 3.0r2)

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Richard Harding was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> > X server is not working. I get the error message: screens not found. will
> > provide a detailed log .

XFree86 configuration is the great weak spot of Debian. I have a good
friend who was very smart but could never get X working on Debian.  They
used to use an older configurator which worked, but then development
moved to other programs. My understanding is that the other X
configurators were buggy, or closely tied to certain distros. Work is
underway to to adapt a configurator to Debian.

Generally, I just skip X configuration, finish the install, and then
edit /etc/X11/XFConfig by hand. XFree86 4.x is FAR easier to configure
than 3.x was: you almost never need Modelines, e.g.

> > I think this might be related to network configuration. When I tried
> > to edit /etc/resolv.conf, I could not locate the file.
> >
> > What option do I have to select in tasksel to get networking files?
> 
> You can just create the resolv.conf file.

Wow. No package owns /etc/resolv.conf, which is VERY rare. Perhaps your
install isn't progressing to the point where that file would be created.

All you need is:

nameserver 127.0.0.1

with the IP address of your local DNS server.

Debian's 52 required packages (new, small libs like libblkid1 and
libuuid1 have upped the number, but not the size) provide network
configurability. They should be on your system.

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