This just got harder. I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. And the installation media can only be a USB drive.
I am having all kinds of trouble getting an ISO image onto the USB that will work. I can 'cat debian.iso > /dev/disk1s1' well enough. And the machine will recognize the disk at start up, but it never sees it as a bootable device and just hangs. Many of the other instructions are assuming you have a working linux box, which I don't. The files/packages I need to download to build a bootable image I don't have and I can not get either -- apt-get is locked up on dependencies that I'm unable to resolve. First: when I download a ISO for the Debian netinst image it's reported as 'unable to open' on mac. "no mountable file systems" is the exact error. On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:52 PM, <teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net> wrote: > > Tom Allison ask: > > I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks > like 2 years and 3 months. > > And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to > those later. Right now I am not sure where all my sources are or should > be. > > ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ has problems somewhere with the labels stable, > main, contrib, non-free. > > is http://securty.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > still viable? > > ----- > > In the url you have securty instead of security... Other than that, yes > that is still the URL, but... > > A system that old means that at the very least your running Old Stable > (Lenny) if not older, so you can't just update to current stable (squeeze) > without major difficulties, I would suggest a format is in order.. > > TeddyB > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/329541705-1305391961-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1905889860-@b18.c1.bise6.blackberry > >
