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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2008-12-30 06:32 pm
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Debian lenny

I recently installed Debian lenny on a second-hand PC bought from [livejournal.com profile] fivemack. I think it very well; I ran into a couple of minor installer wrinkles (described in detail in my installation report: in summary, poor feedback about a non-working network, and the partitioner hangs if you confuse it hard enough) but the onboard network, sound and video were correctly detected without any assistance from me, producing a reasonable functional Gnome desktop reasonable time.

lenny isn't quite released yet; however it is ‘frozen’, which I decided was good enough for me to get going with an install rather than put etch on the same machine.

Annoyingly my USB keyboard won't talk to the BIOS (other USB keyboards do though and I have a non-USB keyboard around for emergencies still) and therefore to Grub. It gets on fine with Linux however.

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