Debian 1.2 (Rex)

May 5, 2020

This release was only 6 months after the previous, I think it feels like a lot of polish was added over 1.1. It also added some more X11 Window managers including fvwm95 as seen below.

Screenshots

1.2-boot.png 1.2-login.png 1.2-x.png

Installation notes

At boot prompt press Enter
Select Color
Select Next
Select Exit
Select “Next Configure the Keyboard”
Select “us”
Select “Next Partition A Hard Disk”
Select “/dev/hda” and OK
Create One big partition
Select “Alternate Do Without a Swap Parition”
Select Yes
Select “Next Initialize A Linux Disk Partition”
Select “/dev/hda1”
Select No for Bad Blocks scan
Select Yes to Confirm initilize
Select “Yes” to mount as root filesystem
Select “Alternate1 Mount a Previously-Initialized Disk Partition”
Select “/dev/hdb1” and OK
Type “/mnt” and OK
Select “Next Install the Base system”
Select “Yes” to confirm install
Select “Next Install the Operating System Kernel”
Select “/dev/fd0”
Select OK
Select “Next Install the Device Drivers”
Select “/dev/fd1”
Select OK
Select “Next Configure Device Driver Modules”
Select “net”
Select “ne”
Select “Install”
Type “irq=9 io=0x300” and OK
Expect Installation succeeded, Enter to continue
Select Exit
Select Exit
Select “Next Configure the Base System”
Type Europe Enter London Enter
type y to set system clock to GMT
Select “Next Configure the Network”
Press Enter to set hostname to debian
Select yes to use a network
Type “lan” and Enter to set domain
Select Yes to confirm fqdn
Enter IP: 192.168.122.10
Enter netmask: 255.255.255.0
Enter network: 192.168.122.0
Enter broadcast: 192.168.122.255
Enter Yes for Gateway
Enter 192.168.122.1 for gateway
Select “2 Another system will be the DNS server”
Enter Name Server: 192.168.122.1
Select Yes to confirm
Select Yes to use Ethernet
Select “Next Make Linux Bootable Directly From Hard Disk”
Select Yes to install MBR to /dev/hda
Select Yes to boot system on /dev/hda1
Select “Next Make a boot Floppy” and OK
Select “Next Reboot The System”
Select “Yes” to confirm reboot
Set root password
Create user account
dselect, select quit
exit and login as root
run: mv /mnt/netscape* /tmp
run: dselect
Select Access, mounted, enter /mnt, enter none for non-free, enter none for local, return
Select Update, Enter
Select Select, space, enter
Select Install
Select Config
Select Remove
Sekect Select, choose: sudo, autoconf, vim, gnuchess, xfig, gnuplot, screen, bind, cern-httpd, lynx, tcpdump, wu-ftpd, a2gs, ghostview, All Optional section x11, hdparm, minicom, python-base, samba, xntp, xsysinfo, ddd-dmotif, gimp-dmotif, netscape, lesstif and enter
Select Install, when promped for for default Xfree, pick VGA16 and enable xdm
Select Config
Select Remote
Select Quit
run: cp /mnt/XF86Config /etc/X11
run: lilo
run: sed ’s^/dev/hdb^#/dev/hdb^’ /etc/fstab > /etc/fstab.new
run: cat /etc/fstab.new > /etc/fstab
run: shutdown -h now
edit: /etc/ld.so.conf and add /usr/X11R6/lib
edit: /etc/fstab add “noauto” as mount option