Did I write all that yesterday? must be my longest post to flog yet.
I ran the tasksel (simple) installer and selected just about everything except the German and Chinese language support (plus a couple of others), it then warned me it was going to install 348mb, I laughed, I cried, I ran a bath.
I.e. it was going to install a lot, mainly support/dependency packages to go with the main stuff, should be interesting, I not sure if I want a NNTP and IMAP server, but you never know.
I hope to run the Linux system as a firewall proxy for the poor defencless win98 machine so hosting NNTP and IMAP should help.
Of course apart from the basics I have know idea how to accomplish that :)
Ooo my bath is ready .......
That was refreshing (or not, it was very hot ! ) .....
So it has configured a few things, loads of messages scrolling up the screen and then it asks
This may take a while...
Press [Enter] to continue...
Which sounds reasonable, the screen goes blank few 2 seconds and then flicks back to
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Unable to communicate with X server!
The /etc/X11/XF86Config file was not created.
Press [Enter] to switch to graphics mode.
Which seemed fair enough, it had failed to setup X on the resolution it had just tried.
The same happened again when I pressed enter, but each time the screen flickered into and out of GFX mode it seemed to be different, sometimes big text sometimes small and some times random graphics, but only for half a second.
So it was obviously testing the modes to find the right one?
Not on your life it was just stuck and after 100 reties I finally CTRL-C'd it(remember this X setup was running as part of a 380mb install and I really did not want to screw it up)
After a few messages the whole thing started all over again, doh !
CTRL-C'd that and it merrily went on its way and then failed.
Problem is I have no idea what state the system is now in, ......
So i run tasksel again and only select X core and of course it only goes and works :)
But, nothing is going right, my ps2 logitech track-ball does not want to work on any of the protocols, so selecting anything is a nightmare of tabs.
Looks like the serial (ps2 converter) is IRQ hogging, must find fix ...
http://www.users.mwfree.net/~genocide/ Something I did a couple of years ago, java fillings.
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