Actually, what it did was make me select by task, but as I've learned, that one must know what tasks, and additional packages are needed, as since I may have aborted and tried other things seeing I was getting device o resource busy when the rescue files were copied, and had to take the kernel I used and move it to /target/vmlinuz manually, something may have messed up. The reason I'm thinking about something different is that I can just accept defaults mins x-windows and have what I need. I know I could compile out of a former shell account just fine, problem is I no longer have that. Now that I've edited and commented out the errored functions, I get undefined stuff with crypt, wherever I get that from. At 03:42 PM 10/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >> That's just it, the readme doesn't say what I need, I just kind of got >> debian going by downloading the files from the speakup site, through a >> buggy install, putting things in, and choosing packages I usually used. >> It's some game I was trying to compile, errors come with the functions > >A few observations: >1. A buggy install can hardly be considered a fair representation of a >distribution or operating system. (That goes for any of them including >winblows.) > >2. When you take the oportunity to choose which packages you need, you >take the chance you chose worngly. Unless you are ready to suffer the >consequences, you should accept some choices made for you. At least the >current version of Debian offers to setup a basic system for you. > >3. When you give "details" that amount to "some game" gave some errors >with functions you are not giving useful information. First, it is >possible someone here knows the game and why you got errors (like that it >requires some often uninstalled package or something). Second the exact >message can sometimes actually reveal the problem. This only works if the >error is known. Even if the error doesn't get as specific as "you forgot >to add the whatzit to the whereisit." it may mean something to those >offering to help. > >4. Until you are quite comfortable I would recomend picking one and >staying with it for awhile. Learn the ins and outs. First time out of the >box accept the defaults. Without some reason saying otherwise you should >trust that the people spending hours and hours of their time putting >things together had some small amount of knowledge and reason for choosing >the way they did. If you can't accept that then just start with the >information on making your own distribution. Of course if you are that >capable, you probably don't need my lengthy comments. > > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
