On Sep 21, 2:50 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I successfully installed Debian from the latest business card iso. I > chose the networkless option, the only one that works. That is the > good news. But here is the bad news. > > 1. When chose the newtworked install option it always died with the > message, "trying to write to a read-only file." The file is allegedly > on a read-only file system, probably my boot partition. The file name > is something like /lib/modules/*generic-r5/modules.dep.temp (can't > read my own writing!) > > 2. I do an apt-update followed by an apt-upgrade. The two packages to > be upgraded are the kernel and the initrd file. I get a message that I > am trying to reinstall the same version of the kernel. It also says I > need to reboot after the upgrade finishes. But it seems to never > finish. And I can't exit the (ncurses?) screen that tells me to wait. > There is an <ok> tag at the the bottom but I can't get to it. When I > check via top or ps x on another console the programs that deal with > updating seem to be stalled permanently. > > 3. I have two other systems on my machine, both Slack 12. The > autoconfigure part of grub identified /dev/hdb3 correctly but /devhda2 > was represented four times in menu.lst with various kernels > specified. I solved the problem by reinstalling lilo from Slack but I > thought the grub misfire deserved some attention. > > 4. On startup my eth0 card which is connected to the internet isn't > activated by dhcpcd. I can click on the little icon in the upper > right corner of the Gnome screen and select the eth0 card from the > menu shown and then internet connection is established. But I > shouldn't have to do this. What happens when I switch to KDE? There is > a startup error message related to eth0 about IPV6 software not > installed but I can't install IPV6 software until I get problem 2 > solved. Maybe I can kill the IPV6 requirement but I don't know where. > > Any assistance on problems 2 and 4 in particular would be appreciated. > > John Culleton > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved problem 2. It seems Debian upgrades more easily from the gui than from the command line. Go figure. Still need suggestions on problem 4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
