Edward S. Baiz Jr. <edbaizjr@comcast.net> wrote:

> I have just successfully installed Debian Sarge on my Atari clone, the
> Hades060.

Wow, antique m68k box. Back in the day (a couple of years back), I got
Debian 2.2 "potato" fully working on my equally ancient Mac IIci. So,
don't despair: It can definitely be done.

> Right now I just have the console with no graphics.

Here's the experience of someone with the same model, ditto with Sarge:
http://www.forumsforyou.com/p/comp.o...ne)_118.htm l

> I tried to get Gnome to boot, but I am told the xserver needs to be
> re-configured.

"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", carried out as the root user.

> Then I need to know about settimg the time. I live about 100 miles
> east of Chicago, so I chose Central time when I was asked what
> timezone I live in. However Sarge has me 6 hours earlier than what I
> want. How do I fix this.

Run "tzconfig" to set your timezone. (This is a front-end that edits
text file /etc/timezone on your behalf. That's literally all it does.)

Easiest way to set your system to the exact time is to do:

"apt-get install ntpdate"

This installs a utility of the same name that, when run, does a one-time
synchronisation of your system clock to a public atomic clock on the
Internet, runs the utility, and configures your startup scripts to run
it again during each subsequent system startup.


The more-flexible (but potentially confusing) utility for adjusting
system time is called "date" (/bin/date). There are lots of different
sorts of ways to use it. Here's one:

"date MMDDhhmm"

....where MM is two digits for the month, DD is two digits for the date
within this month, hh is two digits for the hour in 24-hour format, and
mm is two digits for the current number of minutes past the hour.

To _also_ write the now-adjusted system time to your motherboard's
hardware clock, so that it will be remembered for subsequent reboots, do
"hwclock --systohc".


If I may hazard a bit of advice on something you did _not_ ask about,
please don't expect too much of your poor ol' m68k box: When I got done
with my Mac IIci, I had to admit that it... er... walked the X Window
System briskly rather than running it. A few months later, I realised
that that generation of machine was excellent in its day, and I had
loved it dearly at the time -- but that it's not 1988 any more. So,
I gave it to a friend.

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