Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello Andi, 

> You maybe want to leave out tasksel and dselect completely, since I
> don't like them (and you may not like them too). I usually just skip
> them and install a usable system myself using apt-get install, since
> this lets you choose the packages you really want, and you don't get
> lots of (not needed) stuff installed like when using tasksel. The
> downside, of course, is that you have to know which packages you have to
> install to get a running system.. ;) 

<split>

> If you'd like, I could send a
> comprehensive list of packages to install if you want to have things
> like xfree86 and gnome running.

Yes please. 

As a side question what is the difference between xfree86 and gnome? A quick
search on yahoo yields enough to tell me one is a gui system and another
builds a desktop, but do I need both? 

>> I will put the clock stuff back to how it was originally and collect
>> some debug output to post here. Watch this space.

> Cool! Please do so!! 

Haven't had the chance to do this yet. 

> Hmmm, this is not normal! What type of filesystem did you choose for the
> linux partition(s)? I'd take ext3 anyway. 

Yes I am using ext3. 

Kind regards, 

Kulwant