Does woody come with XFree86 4.0+ ? robert jorgenson wrote: > > Okay it all installed fine, it didn't reckognize my windows partition and > set lilo up for it, but i figured it out. Now i am having problems getting > XFree86 to work. I am using the radeon 7000 card, and after looking through > the hardware howto on linuxdoc.org it said that radeon agp cards use the > radeon driver for x 4.x and not supported in 3.x. I am running debian > woody, i ran "apt-get install x-windows-core-system"(not sure if thats the > exact package name i forgot) and after that was done i ran "X -configure" > and tested the file it threw at me. It said something about there not being > a pointer registered. I would have kept going but i am sooooooo tired :) If > anyone has any tips/advice/whatever that might help i am gonna give this > another shot tommorow night. > > At 10:41 PM 5/8/02 -0700, you wrote: > >On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 22:05, robert jorgenson wrote: > > > Okay i have a windows box with an 18GB hard drive, it has a 5gb windows > > > partition and i wanted to install debian on the rest. Ive never installed > > > linux on a box that had windows on it, or any other operating system for > > > that matter. Is there anything i should know before doing this besides > > > backup? Like a special lilo configuration(or whatever debian uses) or > > > anythign like that? I have wanted to install debian for a long time but > > > havent had the chance, now i got the space and the cd's and just need some > > > advice :) > > > > >---- > >My experience is with redhat / little mandrake & suse > > > >install away - leave the winders partition alone - as long as this 18G > >hd is master device on primary controller, debian shouldn't bother it (I > >believe that is would use grub in favor of lilo and it should offer dual > >boot. > > > >Craig > >________________________________________________ > >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > >post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss