if the display is not perfect — it might not crash if it’s not, but if it does, you don’t want to have to not only wait for it to check all its inodes (if you haven’t yet tune2fs’d it to ext3 — see Section 7.1), but perhaps screw up in the process of so many crashes.
If that’s perfect, great! If not, read on . . .
1.2.2Horizontal and Vertical Refresh Rates; Screen Size
If it’s not perfect, quickly switch back to the console, and try again. I had to play with the screen sizes a bit. A friend suggested starting with the lowest option (640×480) and work up from there, but I found that only the exactly correct one worked. Maybe this is a good approach for a desktop system, but not a laptop.
Another friend, however, tell me that “ that’s almost guaranteed to fail on a laptop, as I understand it. Laptops have LCD screens, which are more finicky than LED. When going through the
I wanted a screen at 1600×1200, so I set that for my screen size. The first time I installed Debian on this machine, that plus the r128 video card did the trick, and I was set. The second time, however, I also had to play with the horizontal and vertical refresh rates. I ended up setting them as high as I could, and that plus the large screen size plus the r128 card did the trick. It felt like voodoo.
2Samba and Interfacing with the Windoze Net- work
Since my workplace has a Windoze share that they use all the time, my biggest concern with this install was interfacing with that in a reasonable manner. By “reasonable” I do not mean big
This should have been easy. But since I didn’t know anything about kernel modules, and little things went wrong, it was harder than it should have been.
2.1Installing Samba
Like anything in Debian, installing samba is easy:
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