[plug] Debian installation

[Sol]

Mmm. It's hard to for me to say for sure without a bit more info. 
[ NB: I'll put shell commands in square brackets like this ]
So first things first: do you have x-window-system and x-window-system-core 
installed? [ dpkg -l x-window* ] (if you get "ii x-window-system 4.1.0-16" 
you've got it. If you need to get it [ apt-get install x-window-system ]).
Have you run either XF86Setup or xf86config, or did you run xf86 configuration 
during installation?
Have you got a file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? If you don't then you will need to 
[ XF86Setup ] or [ xf86config ]. Make sure you know all your video card, 
monitor, etc hardware to enter during configuration.

See how far you get with that first.

good luck,
sol 


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:31 pm, Dave Dartnall wrote:
> At the recent (late last year?) installfest at Computer Angels, I bought
> a set (7) of debian 3.0 disks, and following attendance at the linux
> conference have been motivated to install it.
>
> The documentation indicates that the disks are self-booting, but that
> doesn't work for me although the debian boot disk which was produced
> during installation does work - takes for ever tho'.
> What could happen at boot time when the computer refuses to look at the
> cdrom with the bios set to see it, but happily accesses the floppy (with
> bios set to a) ?
> Installation was consequently achieved by dd from cdrom producing three
> floppy disks - linux, rescue, and root. The result of this process was
> successful in that the boot disk referred to above results in an active
> bash shell. No Xwindows.
> Startx produces the following error messages:
>
>     (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
>     (EE) Error fron xf86HandleConfigFile()
>
>     fatal server error 'no screens found'
>     (NI) not implemented
>     cannot open APM
>
> I've tried running xf86config which hasn't helped!
>
> Where can I go from here?
>
> regards
> Dave Dartnall