Just for laughs, I decided to install Debian Linux on my old Sony notebook. Once I bit the bullet and deleted Win98 completely I was able to, with DaveK's plain vanilla Sony CD-ROM drive, boot from the CD and do a basic install.
After a little more farting around I got the network woking and started installing packages.
My first impression is that it is was easier than I imagined. Getting the network and DNS working was easy once you added the right five or so lines to the right config files. You are never going to guess which ones but if you ask around and do a bit of Googling you can usually find the answer fairly quickly.
Out of the box, it seems only to have Python 1.5 installed so I set about installing Python 2.3 which didn't work immediately due to a compile failure where the build script whined that "the C compiler can't create executables". This was fixed by making sure that "build-essential" package was installed.
Posted by stuartcw at February 28, 2004 06:18 PMhi,
I want to install Zope for that i need to install python 2.3 but, iam not able do it can u halp me out.
Thanx
Rohit