On 12/16/05, Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, since you'll probably do it: Good luck with the re-install!
>
> If you were happy with Ubuntu, you might consider using "regular"
> Debian... it's more stable, there's more structure around releases and
> quality control, and if you aren't looking for cutting-edge new
> software, it works great.

I did the fresh installation. The first time it stopped at apt configuration
(25%) for about 20min because my network connection was down. I
fixed the network connection and then did the second reinstallation.
It stopped at 85% of base installation for a long time. Ctrl+Alt+Del
and seems it recovered. This is definitely less smooth than Ubuntu 5.04.

Anyway, I installed some essential buid package: build-essential,
libusb/libusb-devel and now I can compile C based pk2 for PICkit 2.

To compile Python based pyk, I installed SWIG, no joy, I can no longer
compile the BitPim libusb wrapper. I am not so sure if this libusb problem
or gcc 4 problem or SWIG problem.

It seems Breezy is really bad. I think I have some other probelm
as well. I may want to switch back to Hoary (5.04) or other distribution
(regular Debian?? FC4?? or maybe others??) after some more tries.

I am using a AMD64 3000+ Desktop with 512M RAM.

Regards,
Xiaofan

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