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InstallEtch

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1 Installing Debian Etch on IBM Thinkpad T42
2 Diary

Installing Debian Etch on IBM Thinkpad T42

Earlier this fall I installed Ubuntu on the Thinkpad, with reasonable results. Two problem (lack of wireless and a messed up partitioning) led me to decide to try Etch.

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Diary

I used a net-install cd from 6/06 (too lazy to install a more up-to-date one), but got stuck toward the end. Tasksel didn't finish, leaving a pretty rudimentary machine.

I got the /etc/apt/sources.list populated with a reasonable list:

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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)]/ etch main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

and ran dselect. Adding mc (my favorite file manager) and kde led to a selection of around 569 packages, which took around an hour to download.

This led to kernel 2-6-18.3

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