Re: New Debian install problem
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:06 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: It is a driver, video card issue, ATI. The radeon driver changed. Search for 'white screen of death' , ATI Ok, the problem is all over the web, from time to time. what's the solution? I don't have any proprietary fglrx ati drivers installed, all I have is xorg, xserver-xorg-video-all fluxbox. when I 'startx', the fluxbox starts but the computer freeze entirely, not even the caps/num locks keys. This is a recently debootstrap installed SID box. what's the solution? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: New Debian install problem
Mike, That's great ! I'm not quite sure why you could see a mouse pointer if your video card wasn't working. Very strange. My experience with ATI and Linux has been very bad. I've got an ATI in this G5 that I'm using and it's been the first ATI card which has worked reliably for me under Linux. I started buying nvidia a while ago. They've got problems too, but fewer than ATI. Maybe now that AMD's got them things will get better. Linux AMD has always worked well for me. Brian p.s. disable html when you post... Mike !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Mike Transitional//EN html head meta Mike content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 Mike http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body Mike bgcolor=#ff text=#00 Brian,br br I figured it Mike out.nbsp; The problem was my ATI 9250 video card.nbsp; I Mike went out today and bought a NVidia Geforce 6200 and everything Mike works fine now.br br Thanks,br br Mikebr br br Mike Brian Denheyer wrote: blockquote Mike cite=mid:19204.57726.330475.553...@gargle.gargle.howl Mike type=cite pre wrap=Mike, Mike A mouse pointer is a good thing as it means X is probably Mike working. Mike To get a login window you need a display manager of some Mike sort. Mike Usually its gdm, but could also be mwm, kdm, and several Mike others (I think). Mike Make sure that gdm is installed, e.g. Mike ii gdm 2.20.10-1 GNOME Display Manager Mike Your version may not necessarily match mine. jDepending on Mike your setup you may be running one of the other display Mike managers. Mike Try Mike dpkg --list | grep -i manager Mike and see what shows up. Mike If there is a display manager installed, then there is some Mike issue with the start-up scripts. Mike Brian Mike /pre blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite Mike blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite blockquote Mike type=cite pre wrap=Mike == Mike Allegro a Mike class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E Mike href=mailto:mikeallegr...@gmail.com;lt;mikeallegr...@gmail.comgt;/a Mike writes: /pre /blockquote /blockquote /blockquote Mike /blockquote /blockquote pre wrap=! Mikegt; I Mike just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. Mike Mikegt; After the installation I rebooted my computer and Mike Debian Linux Mikegt; loaded up, when it goes into the Mike graphics part I see a blue Mikegt; screen with a symbol that Mike reminds me of the hour glass symbol Mikegt; from Microsoft Mike Windows. After the symbol disappears it should Mikegt; go to Mike the login screen but it does not. It goes to a solid Mikegt; Mike white screen where there is nothing but the mouse pointer. I Mike Mikegt; am not sure what is going on? Do you have any ideas? Mike Could Mikegt; it be a problem with my graphics card? I have Mike the following Mikegt; in my computer; Mike Mikegt; AMD 1.2 Ghz processor 512 Mb Ram Diamond graphics Mike card with Mikegt; ATI 9250 chipset with 128 MB ram 80Gb hard Mike drive CD Drive CD Mikegt; Burner Mike Mikegt; Any help would be appreciated!!! Mike Mikegt; Regards, Mike Mikegt; Mike Mike /pre /blockquote br /body /html z!DOCTYPE html Mike PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head Mike meta content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 Mike http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body Mike bgcolor=#ff text=#00 Brian,br br I figured it Mike out.nbsp; The problem was my ATI 9250 video card.nbsp; I Mike went out today and bought a NVidia Geforce 6200 and everything Mike works fine now.br br Thanks,br br Mikebr br br Mike Brian Denheyer wrote: blockquote Mike cite=mid:19204.57726.330475.553...@gargle.gargle.howl Mike type=cite pre wrap=Mike, Mike A mouse pointer is a good thing as it means X is probably Mike working. Mike To get a login window you need a display manager of some Mike sort. Mike Usually its gdm, but could also be mwm, kdm, and several Mike others (I think). Mike Make sure that gdm is installed, e.g. Mike ii gdm 2.20.10-1 GNOME Display Manager Mike Your version may not necessarily match mine. jDepending on Mike your setup you may be running one of the other display Mike managers. Mike Try Mike dpkg --list | grep -i manager Mike and see what shows up. Mike If there is a display manager installed, then there is some Mike issue with the start-up scripts. Mike Brian Mike /pre blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite Mike blockquote type=cite blockquote type=cite blockquote Mike type=cite pre wrap=Mike == Mike Allegro a Mike class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E Mike href=mailto:mikeallegr...@gmail.com;lt;mikeallegr...@gmail.comgt;/a Mike writes: /pre /blockquote /blockquote /blockquote Mike /blockquote /blockquote pre wrap=! Mikegt; I Mike just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. Mike Mikegt; After the installation I rebooted my
New Debian install problem
I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. After the installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux loaded up, when it goes into the graphics part I see a blue screen with a symbol that reminds me of the hour glass symbol from Microsoft Windows. After the symbol disappears it should go to the login screen but it does not. It goes to a solid white screen where there is nothing but the mouse pointer. I am not sure what is going on? Do you have any ideas? Could it be a problem with my graphics card? I have the following in my computer; AMD 1.2 Ghz processor 512 Mb Ram Diamond graphics card with ATI 9250 chipset with 128 MB ram 80Gb hard drive CD Drive CD Burner Any help would be appreciated!!! Regards, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: New Debian install problem
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 16:51:38 Mike Allegro wrote: I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. After the installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux loaded up, when it goes into the graphics part I see a blue screen with a symbol that reminds me of the hour glass symbol from Microsoft Windows. After the symbol disappears it should go to the login screen but it does not. It goes to a solid white screen where there is nothing but the mouse pointer. I am not sure what is going on? Do you have any ideas? Could it be a problem with my graphics card? I have the following in my computer; AMD 1.2 Ghz processor 512 Mb Ram Diamond graphics card with ATI 9250 chipset with 128 MB ram 80Gb hard drive CD Drive CD Burner Any help would be appreciated!!! Regards, Mike It is a driver, video card issue, ATI. The radeon driver changed. Search for 'white screen of death' , ATI -- Peace Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
New Debian install problem
Mike, A mouse pointer is a good thing as it means X is probably working. To get a login window you need a display manager of some sort. Usually its gdm, but could also be mwm, kdm, and several others (I think). Make sure that gdm is installed, e.g. ii gdm2.20.10-1 GNOME Display Manager Your version may not necessarily match mine. jDepending on your setup you may be running one of the other display managers. Try dpkg --list | grep -i manager and see what shows up. If there is a display manager installed, then there is some issue with the start-up scripts. Brian Mike == Mike Allegro mikeallegr...@gmail.com writes: Mike I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. Mike After the installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux Mike loaded up, when it goes into the graphics part I see a blue Mike screen with a symbol that reminds me of the hour glass symbol Mike from Microsoft Windows. After the symbol disappears it should Mike go to the login screen but it does not. It goes to a solid Mike white screen where there is nothing but the mouse pointer. I Mike am not sure what is going on? Do you have any ideas? Could Mike it be a problem with my graphics card? I have the following Mike in my computer; Mike AMD 1.2 Ghz processor 512 Mb Ram Diamond graphics card with Mike ATI 9250 chipset with 128 MB ram 80Gb hard drive CD Drive CD Mike Burner Mike Any help would be appreciated!!! Mike Regards, Mike Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Install problem on Inspiron
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 21:12 +0200, Oğuz Yarımtepe wrote: Cum 03 Mar 2006 01:15 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 00:14 +0200, Oğuz Yarımtepe wrote: Hi. I tried to install Debian Inspiron 16000 with Debian 3.1r1, rc2, netsinstall and Sarge. Each time the installation failed because the installed couldnt find a disk for partititoning. Here are outputs of some commands when i opened the machine with Knoppix: lspci -vv: http://pastebin.com/580921 it looks as though you have similar hardware to me. i have a debian inspiron 6000, and have debian running. i installed debian using a 2.4 kernel. then, once installed, i compiled my own kernel with certain atapi tricks. ok i installed the system with 2.4 kernel. But when i installed kde and kdm it couldnt opened the graphic environment. Error Apm: Bios not found the apm error shouldn't be causing any errors with your x-server I installed the kernel 2.6.15 this time it found the disk as scsi and gave an error saying /dev/hda6 doenst exist. And fall to a sh shell. How did you compile the new kernel? your /etc/fstab most likely looks similar to this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 0 1 /dev/hda5 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 you want it to look similar to this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/sda1 / reiserfs notail 0 1 /dev/sda5 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/scd0/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 now we have to tell grub about the changes as well. you need to change a line inside of /boot/grub/menu.lst: you may have different numbers after hda, but just make sure it looks similar to this: # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=0x318 save changes to this file, and run update-grub reboot install24 at lilo should work keep in mind that there will be no dma on the drive during the install process and it will seem slow. this will be corrected later with a new kernel that sees the drive as scsi. lspci: http://pastebin.com/580927 lsmod: http://pastebin.com/580937 proc/ide/drives: http://pastebin.com/580939 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Install problem on Inspiron
Hi. I tried to install Debian Inspiron 16000 with Debian 3.1r1, rc2, netsinstall and Sarge. Each time the installation failed because the installed couldnt find a disk for partititoning. Here are outputs of some commands when i opened the machine with Knoppix: lspci -vv: http://pastebin.com/580921 lspci: http://pastebin.com/580927 lsmod: http://pastebin.com/580937 proc/ide/drives: http://pastebin.com/580939 -- Oğuz Yarımtepe Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği
Re: Debian Install problem on Inspiron
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 00:14 +0200, Oğuz Yarımtepe wrote: Hi. I tried to install Debian Inspiron 16000 with Debian 3.1r1, rc2, netsinstall and Sarge. Each time the installation failed because the installed couldnt find a disk for partititoning. Here are outputs of some commands when i opened the machine with Knoppix: lspci -vv: http://pastebin.com/580921 it looks as though you have similar hardware to me. i have a debian inspiron 6000, and have debian running. i installed debian using a 2.4 kernel. then, once installed, i compiled my own kernel with certain atapi tricks. install24 at lilo should work keep in mind that there will be no dma on the drive during the install process and it will seem slow. this will be corrected later with a new kernel that sees the drive as scsi. lspci: http://pastebin.com/580927 lsmod: http://pastebin.com/580937 proc/ide/drives: http://pastebin.com/580939 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install Problem...
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:46:24PM -0500, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Kent West wrote: Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: I attempted to install Debian stable release today on a computer that has Windows on it already. The install seems to have worked and I got through the entire base configuration, but when I type startx I get an error message that says no screens found. This generally means that your video hardware doesn't match the settings of X. Try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and selecting different settings, such as SVGA or a lower resolution or a lower color depth. Kent -- Thanks, I have tried this with a few different settings to no avail. I have attached the log from the failed boot up (I am not sure if this list strips attachments, I will soon find out.) I don't know what to make of it. Hopefully someone here will. More info: I have two monitors, both 17 LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia 6200 (I think that is the model #) graphics card. In Windows, I have one big desktop across two screens. When I am running Debian at the command line, the two monitors show exactly the same thing. When I run startx, I get the attached error. Any thoughts? Hi Peter, you may want to try: X -configure (follow the instructions and try it!) you can quit this by control-f1 (to get to the console) and control-c, if X windows works! post that log, too! Cheers, Kev -- counter.li.org #238656 -- goto counter.li.org and be counted! `$' $' $ $ _ ,d$$$g$ ,d$$$b. $,d$$$b`$' g$b $,d$$b ,$P' `$ ,$P' `Y$ $$' `$ $ ' `$ $$' `$ $$ $ $$g$ $ $ $ ,$P $ $$ `$g. ,$$ `$$._ _. $ _,g$P $ `$b. ,$$ $$ `Y$$P'$. `YP $$$P' ,$. `Y$$P'$ $. ,$. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Install Problem...
Kent West wrote: Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: I attempted to install Debian stable release today on a computer that has Windows on it already. The install seems to have worked and I got through the entire base configuration, but when I type startx I get an error message that says no screens found. This generally means that your video hardware doesn't match the settings of X. Try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and selecting different settings, such as SVGA or a lower resolution or a lower color depth. Kent -- Thanks, I have tried this with a few different settings to no avail. I have attached the log from the failed boot up (I am not sure if this list strips attachments, I will soon find out.) I don't know what to make of it. Hopefully someone here will. More info: I have two monitors, both 17 LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia 6200 (I think that is the model #) graphics card. In Windows, I have one big desktop across two screens. When I am running Debian at the command line, the two monitors show exactly the same thing. When I run startx, I get the attached error. Any thoughts? Thanks! -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to help? http://www.oooauthors.org For OOo tips: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/ooo_tips_tricks.html To order OOo: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/distro/ooo_distro.html XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 20050601051219 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.29-pre2 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 01 June 2005 This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any way. Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting . We strongly encourage the use of the reportbug package and command to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as possible. Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ: XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Jul 6 11:13:54 2005 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor EN7410 (**) | |--Device Generic Video Card (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc104 (**) XKB: model: pc104 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |--Input Device Configured Mouse (**) |--Input Device Generic Mouse (WW) The directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi (==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x, mode1Res1 = 0x8000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,2570 card , rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 8086,2571 card , rev 02 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,24d2 card 104d,8159 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,24d4 card 104d,8159 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:1d:2: chip 8086,24d7 card 104d,8159 rev
Fw: Debian Install Problem...
I have two monitors, both 17 LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia 6200 The important part of the log is (EE) No devices detected. The nv driver does not support this card. You could try using the vesa driver, 2D only, or download the latest linux driver from the Nvidia website. It works with my PCX6600 Card once you reconfigure X. You can also use the debian packages to create the Nvidia driver. More information can be found at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/ which is what I used. HTH Wackojacko oops forgot to send to list, sorry Peter. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install Problem...
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Kent West wrote: Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: when I type startx I get an error message that says no screens found. Try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and selecting different settings, such as SVGA or a lower resolution or a lower color depth. Thanks, I have tried this with a few different settings to no avail. If you've modified /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by hand, the above command doesn't modify the file, even though there's no warning that it's not modifying the file. I have two monitors, both 17 LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia 6200 (I think that is the model #) graphics card. In Windows, I have one big desktop across two screens. When I am running Debian at the command line, the two monitors show exactly the same thing. When I run startx, I get the attached error. Any thoughts? (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected. Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 for a Device section; does it have a BusID line? If so, it needs to say: BusID PCI:1:0:0 to match the Primary Device found as reported by your log file. However, since you have two monitors with two graphics adapters, you should have a Device section for each adapter, and each of those sections should have an appropriate BusID section. lspci should list the PCI device numbers, but they'll be in hex, and will need to be converted to decimal for XF86Config-4. (And you thought Debian was going to be easy.) Here's an article I wrote a couple of years ago that might be of some benefit: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/05/025207tid=13tid=39tid=23tid=99 The Xinerama option will need to be enabled (see tail-end of above article for example) in order to get your dual-head working as it does in Windows (sort of). -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Install Problem...
I searched the archives of the Debian users lists, but didn't see anything, I haven't searched the newsgroup, so sorry if this is common. I attempted to install Debian stable release today on a computer that has Windows on it already. The install seems to have worked and I got through the entire base configuration, but when I type startx I get an error message that says no screens found. I was going to ask the xfree people, but an error message I got at some point says basically that Debian has modified xfree so much that I need to ask Debian. Thanks. -- Peter Kupfer -- Using OOo since 'OO4 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to help? http://www.oooauthors.org For OOo tips: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/ooo_tips_tricks.html To order OOo: http://openoffice.peschtra.com/distro/ooo_distro.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Install Problem...
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: I attempted to install Debian stable release today on a computer that has Windows on it already. The install seems to have worked and I got through the entire base configuration, but when I type startx I get an error message that says no screens found. This generally means that your video hardware doesn't match the settings of X. Try running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and selecting different settings, such as SVGA or a lower resolution or a lower color depth. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Install problem
Greetings! I'm trying to install debian linux but I'm having trouble. I ran jigdo and downloaded an ISO file successfully and burned a cd successfully from the ISO. After creating the partitions I get to INSTALL KERNEL AND DRIVER MODULES but it can't seem to find a particular file, images-1.44/rescue.bin After checking the contents of the CD, I find rescue.bin in the boot directory. So I tried this again but by manually entering the directory where this file is found and I get the error message cannot find file /instmnt/boot/images-1.44/rescue.bin Am I doing something wrong or is this some sort of error? I can see way to access this file since the directory name is included in the filename, a directory which doesn't exist. Is the ISO bad? If so, can you recommend one that you know for certain works? Thanks in advance, xray
Re: Debian Install problem
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:01:19AM -0500, Raymond Johnson wrote: I'm trying to install debian linux but I'm having trouble. You might want to post to debian-boot instead of debian-user. Not that we aren't helpful, but that's where the the installer developers hang out. ... I ran jigdo and downloaded an ISO file successfully and burned a cd successfully from the ISO. After creating the partitions I get to INSTALL KERNEL AND DRIVER MODULES but it can't seem to find a particular file, images-1.44/rescue.bin After checking the contents of the CD, I find rescue.bin in the boot directory. So I tried this again but by manually entering the directory where this file is found and I get the error message cannot find file /instmnt/boot/images-1.44/rescue.bin My first thought would be to try burning the CD again. You did check the MD5 sum, right? When I installed Sarge (Debian Testing) recently, my first CD-ROM did burn defectively, and I know it's not uncommon. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian Install problem
-Original Message- From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Fink Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian Install problem On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:01:19AM -0500, Raymond Johnson wrote: I'm trying to install debian linux but I'm having trouble. You might want to post to debian-boot instead of debian-user. Not that we aren't helpful, but that's where the the installer developers hang out. ... I ran jigdo and downloaded an ISO file successfully and burned a cd successfully from the ISO. After creating the partitions I get to INSTALL KERNEL AND DRIVER MODULES but it can't seem to find a particular file, images-1.44/rescue.bin After checking the contents of the CD, I find rescue.bin in the boot directory. So I tried this again but by manually entering the directory where this file is found and I get the error message cannot find file /instmnt/boot/images-1.44/rescue.bin My first thought would be to try burning the CD again. You did check the MD5 sum, right? When I installed Sarge (Debian Testing) recently, my first CD-ROM did burn defectively, and I know it's not uncommon. Well, I found the problem. It turns out that I was trying to install from the 2nd disk :( I realized this after I posted. I am a little surprised that it did the initial partitioning being that it was the 2nd disk. It was my first time using jigdo and I don't know what I did wrong; perhaps I mistyped the file name. Thanks for your help, Raymond
Debian Install Problem
Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm trying to install Debian on an i386 machine, and I've gotten it working, but now when I try to reinstall after I had some problems, it keeps telling me there was a problem installing the base system, that, or the installer refuses to let me configure the base system-- just install it again. Any ideas? .. -- Deven
Re: Debian Install Problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to the list. I'm trying to install Debian on an i386 machine, and I've gotten it working, but now when I try to reinstall after I had some problems, it keeps telling me there was a problem installing the base system, that, or the installer refuses to let me configure the base system-- just install it again. Any ideas? .. -- Deven My guess is that you're installing via floppies; this is a common error with floppies. Reimage the affected floppy on a different floppy (I once had to go through four floppies before getting a good image). Floppies used during the base install have to be FLAWLESS. Even floppies that seem to be perfectly good for other uses may fail. If you're not installing from floppies, let us know more details. Kent
debian install problem with scsi
I have been trying to install debain 2.2.3 on to a machine with a 29160 scsi card an IBM 18gig ultra160 harddrive and a quantum 18gig SCA ultra160 with a 80-pin to 68-pin converter. If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is going to try harder over and over again before it gets to the first blue install screen. Any ideas, Besides leaving the quantum out of the system? RB Bruce __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: debian install problem with scsi
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:35:23AM -0700, RB Bruce wrote: If I remove the quantum from the machine debian loads fine. If I leave it in, it times out and says it is going to try harder over and over again before it gets to the first blue install screen. Check for SCSI ID conflicts. Try swapping the SCSI IDs of the drives. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpZKIQ0PHHOQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Install Problem
I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to install the base system, and 4 years later [not really] it tells me that there was a problem installing the base system, and I see snipets of errors on the sides of the screen: ut error, etc. If this doesn't happen, it just goes right back to the installation screen, with Install the Base System as my default option. If I try to go to Configure the Base System I get an error saying that I need to install it first. Every time I install the Base System it asks me if I want to overwrite the base system already written on the disk, so I know it was successful. I checked the surface of the disc numerous times, and it's just fine-- no scratches, fingerprints, etc. I even cleaned it, but it still does this. Thanks, -- Deven WTF is wrong with this installer Gallo In a message dated 7/27/01 11:24:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My guess is that you're installing via floppies; this is a common error with floppies. Reimage the affected floppy on a different floppy (I once had to go through four floppies before getting a good image). Floppies used during the base install have to be FLAWLESS. Even floppies that seem to be perfectly good for other uses may fail. If you're not installing from floppies, let us know more details. Kent
Re: Debian Install Problem
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:28:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to install the base system, and 4 years later [not really] it tells me that there was a problem installing the base system, and I see snipets of errors on the sides of the screen: ut error, etc. If this doesn't happen, it just goes right back to the installation screen, with Install the Base System as my default option. If I try to go to Configure the Base System I get an error saying that I need to install it first. Every time I install the Base System it asks me if I want to overwrite the base system already written on the disk, so I know it was successful. I checked the surface of the disc numerous times, and it's just fine-- no scratches, fingerprints, etc. I even cleaned it, but it still does this. Sometimes the disk is bad, but you can't see it on the surface. What are the actual error messages? Press leftalt-f4 to see the installer error messages (it may also be f3, I forget so try all of them and see what you get). Leftalt-f1 will get you back to the installer menu. Cheers, Joost
Re: Debian Install Problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to install the base system, and 4 years later [not really] it tells me that there was a problem installing the base system, and I see snipets of errors on the sides of the screen: ut error, etc. If this doesn't happen, it just goes right back to the installation screen, with Install the Base System as my default option. If I try to go to Configure the Base System I get an error saying that I need to install it first. Every time I install the Base System it asks me if I want to overwrite the base system already written on the disk, so I know it was successful. I checked the surface of the disc numerous times, and it's just fine-- no scratches, fingerprints, etc. I even cleaned it, but it still does this. Thanks, -- Deven WTF is wrong with this installer Gallo Sounds like a hardware problem: In order, I'd suspect: CD-ROM disk CD-ROM drive/controller Hard drive RAM Of course it could be some sort of incompatibility with your hardware, like if you've got some sort of barely-standard motherboard or something. Perhaps others will have other ideas. If you've got the drive space, you might try copying the CD's base files (I'm not sure what they'd be on a CD; they'd roughly correspond to root.bin, rescue.bin, base-image.tar.gz (or whatever that file is, which is the grouped-together version of individual floppy images, such as base1-1440.bin, base2-1440.bin, etc - again, I may not have the exact names) to a FAT16/32 (MS-DOS) partition on your hard drive, then during the install, select to install from the hard drive instead of from the CD-ROM drive. This two-step process should eliminate CD-ROM and hard drive issues. In a message dated 7/27/01 11:24:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My guess is that you're installing via floppies; this is a common error with floppies. Reimage the affected floppy on a different floppy (I once had to go through four floppies before getting a good image). Floppies used during the base install have to be FLAWLESS. Even floppies that seem to be perfectly good for other uses may fail. If you're not installing from floppies, let us know more details. Kent
Re: Bug#42675: Debian install problem on new machine
This would be much better asked on debian-user (bigger audience), so I'm forwarding it there for you. Julian I have just taken delivery of a shiny new Gateway PIII machine on which I am trying to install Debian. I have done many debian installs before, so I am not a raw novice. For some reason on this machine it gets part way through booting from the Debain 2.1 (slink) rescue floppy when it just stops soon after detecting the ide HDs. ie The last few boot lines are: hda: WDC blah blah blah... hdc: IOMEGA ZIP blah blah blah.. hdd: CRD-8400B, blah blah blah ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0f3f6 on irg 14 Looking at the boot log of my other (old) machine it then should probably go off and do something like: FDC 0 is a blah blah md driver 0.blah blah and so on. I have tried following the Debian tips of removing plug and play cards but with no luck. I even tried the safe rescue floppy, then tried a Debian 2.0 bootable CD but still got stuck in the same place. I then tried the Redhat 6 boot floppy and it started up fine making it past the Debian sticking point with no trouble. Any ideas? Machine vitals: Gateway GP7-450 PentiumIII 450 128MB RAM SCSI card (for tape drive only) Adaptec AHA-2940 (removing this didn't help boot) 8.4 GB ATA HD ATAPI CD-ROM 3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI ethernet card ATI Rage 128 16MB 2X 3-D AGP Graphics Accelerator (Don't know if X is going to like this?) SoundBlaster Audio PCI 64D Soundcard (removing this didn't help either) PS/2 KB mouse - Dr Richard WraithIT Manager Trinity College Parkville Melbourne Australia tel: +61-3-9349 0112mobile: 0417 361 093 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +61-3-9347 1610
Bug#42675: Info received (was Bug#42675: Debian install problem on new machine)
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Re: Debian install problem
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Gary S. MacKay wrote: Question: Is there any way I can either install via ftp or from my Win95 shared directory? If you've got an ftp server on your Win95 machine (and some way of connecting to it like TCP/IP), you can start up dselect, select Access, Ftp, and give it the information it asks for, starting with the location of your win95 machine. Otherwise, you can install via ftp from one of the debian ftp sites (try ftp.debian.org :)) Sony cdu31a drive? Sure. I have one in my other machine. You'll need to recompile your kernel (this isn't tough, if you haven't done it. Get the linux-kernel howto and follow the directions, or get the kernel source and use the debian kernel-package package). Make sure you enable the cdu31a driver (under CD-Rom drivers, of course). I had trouble setting parameters in the compile-time options, so I ended up passing the IO base and a few other things to the kernel at run-time via the options= lilo.conf setting. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- |And if you on tight to what you think is your thing | |you may find you're missing all the rest ...| |- Dave Matthews, Best of What's Around | -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian install problem
Greets, If you've got an ftp server on your Win95 machine (and some way of connecting to it like TCP/IP), you can start up dselect, select Access, Ftp, and give it the information it asks for, starting with the location of your win95 machine. Otherwise, you can install via ftp from one of the debian ftp sites (try ftp.debian.org :)) I'm not sure that this will work. Last time I tried (with a Bo CD and NT as the FTP server), this failed miserably. One reason seemed to be that dselect was looking for case sensitive file names, and NT takes a lot of liberties with it's filename cases. Another problem is that NT can't understand symlinks, and there are a lot of links in binary-i386 pointing to binary-all. The FTP server on NT will just see these as 0 length files, and dpkg will choke on them. Installing from a linux FTP, OTOH, is a breeze. But that's a chicken and egg problem, isn't it :) Damon -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian install problem
I've downloaded the latest Debian release via ftp. I used my RedHat 5.1 machine and ncftp to download it onto my Win95 machine mounted via Samba. All went fantastic. I created the boot disks (rescue,drivers,root) and booted the machine. Blew away RedHat (I'm learning so I keep installing and blowing them away. Good practice I think), partitioned the drive and swap space. Now what do I do. I installed RedHat via ftp and that was kool. I only have a 500 mg hard drive so I can't copy it all to there. I have a Sony CDU31a cdrom drive which I have touble getting any flavor to recognize. (I was finally successfull with RH5.1 tho.) Question: Is there any way I can either install via ftp or from my Win95 shared directory? If not, how do I burn this image onto a cd that Debian will read. I tried burning a cd for RedHat but the EZ software burnt it with Julian format and not the RockRidge or whatever it is that Linux likes. All of the files were there, but in 8.3 name format, no long filenames. Come to think of it, even if I get a cd burned, will Debian talk to a Sony cdu31a drive? - Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Debian Install problem
I've downloaded the latest Debian release via ftp. I used my RedHat 5.1 machine and ncftp to download it onto my Win95 machine mounted via Samba. All went fantastic. I created the boot disks (rescue,drivers,root) and booted the machine. Blew away RedHat (I'm learning so I keep installing and blowing them away. Good practice I think), partitioned the drive and swap space. Now what do I do. I installed RedHat via ftp and that was kool. I only have a 500 mg hard drive so I can't copy it all to there. I have a Sony CDU31a cdrom drive which I have touble getting any flavor to recognize. (I was finally successfull with RH5.1 tho.) Question: Is there any way I can either install via ftp or from my Win95 shared directory? If not, how do I burn this image onto a cd that Debian will read. I tried burning a cd for RedHat but the EZ software burnt it with Julian format and not the RockRidge or whatever it is that Linux likes. All of the files were there, but in 8.3 name format, no long filenames. Come to think of it, even if I get a cd burned, will Debian talk to a Sony cdu31a drive? - Gary - Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Strange Debian-Install problem... and workaround
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Downloading and installing Debian-hamm-2.0 showed up : A file problem (my god, I hoped to get rid of these M$-like messages ! Please, Dr. Debian, can you change that ?) Install procedure stops (after having done some work, creating directories, extracting lots of files, maybe even all of them) saying : File Error ! There was a problem extracting the Base System from /shared_vfat_device/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/base2_0.tgz. This message follows a fraction of second after a first error, hiding it nearly completely. That one contains .../lib/terminfo: F..., all the rest is wiped out by the second message, which says nothing to me. The same thing happens with rawritten install disks, and original tgz file downloaded from mirrors, first from Germany, then Corea, then ftp.debian.org (I would have tried this one first, but one must have a kind of zen-state-of-mind, if you want to login there (-: ). It's each time the same result ! This happens on a Cyrix-133, 16M RAM, install it on an EMPTY 2.1Giga HD (hdc, want to put it into a bigger box later) with root=500M, 128 M swap, and all the rest free, mounted as /usr , so, guaranteed no disk space probs ;-) I worked around this : I installed 1.3 from CDrom (a dwarf, just enough to make upgrade work), then used the upgrade patch (there were some probs, too, but nothing harmful : 2 errors in the script, I could correct myself...) Well, I've got everything work fine (GIMP included, that was the reason for being in a hurry, needed it the day before yesterday, didn't want to wait for new CD's), but I'd like to know WHAT was wrong with the base tgz-file ? Has anyone seen something similar? What did the message MEAN ? I had the file easily uncompressed (just to see, not to work with it ;-) ) under Lose95... Regards Norbert -- * * \ / *-- * --* / \This was TMTM (The Megabyte Text Magician) / * -- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.globenet.org/periph / -Since I have dual boot, Win95 has become much more stable -That's what YOU think. In reality since, sometimes you happen to shutdown Lose95 before the GPF does it for you... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Strange Debian-Install problem... and workaround
I had some problems like this, but basically they had to do with getting an unstable installation during the hamm beta. I haven't tried out the hamm release though. Unfortunately I do not know the direct solution to your problem. Hoping that it helps, I will go through some of the problems I had and maybe the solutions that I found will help give you some new directions to attack. The first was when i tried to install debian off of a beta cd. There were two installation versions - and older and newer. The older version was the only one that I could get going. And later on it quit half way in the install. Luckily, enough had been installed that the system booted, and I was able to complete the installation through dselect. The other problem I've seen is when downloading the distribution off of ftp, and then finding a lot of reported corrupt files. Basically, what has happened is the corrupt files are really symbolic links to files in the /binary-all directory. To fix this, if you are downloading the distribution to MSDOS and so it can't make sense of the symbolic links, make sure you download the /binary-all directory in addition to your machines architecture (such as /binary-i386). When done, copy everthing in the binary-all directory *over* the binary-i386. This will cause the actual files to replace the symbolic links - and trust me, it won't overwrite any other important files. You need to do this for everthing - the /main, /contrib, and /non-free directories. Also, since you downloaded stuff via ftp, are you sure you downloaded everthing while under binary mode in ftp, not ascii ? If not set properly, this will yield corrupt files from downloading through ftp. Good luck ! -Original Message- From: Norbert Bottlaender-Prier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 3:25 AM Subject: Strange Debian-Install problem... and workaround Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Downloading and installing Debian-hamm-2.0 showed up : A file problem (my god, I hoped to get rid of these M$-like messages ! Please, Dr. Debian, can you change that ?) Install procedure stops (after having done some work, creating directories, extracting lots of files, maybe even all of them) saying : File Error ! There was a problem extracting the Base System from /shared_vfat_device/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/base2_0.tgz. This message follows a fraction of second after a first error, hiding it nearly completely. That one contains .../lib/terminfo: F..., all the rest is wiped out by the second message, which says nothing to me. The same thing happens with rawritten install disks, and original tgz file downloaded from mirrors, first from Germany, then Corea, then ftp.debian.org (I would have tried this one first, but one must have a kind of zen-state-of-mind, if you want to login there (-: ). It's each time the same result ! This happens on a Cyrix-133, 16M RAM, install it on an EMPTY 2.1Giga HD (hdc, want to put it into a bigger box later) with root=500M, 128 M swap, and all the rest free, mounted as /usr , so, guaranteed no disk space probs ;-) I worked around this : I installed 1.3 from CDrom (a dwarf, just enough to make upgrade work), then used the upgrade patch (there were some probs, too, but nothing harmful : 2 errors in the script, I could correct myself...) Well, I've got everything work fine (GIMP included, that was the reason for being in a hurry, needed it the day before yesterday, didn't want to wait for new CD's), but I'd like to know WHAT was wrong with the base tgz-file ? Has anyone seen something similar? What did the message MEAN ? I had the file easily uncompressed (just to see, not to work with it ;-) ) under Lose95... Regards Norbert -- * * \ / *-- * --* / \This was TMTM (The Megabyte Text Magician) / * -- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.globenet.org/periph / -Since I have dual boot, Win95 has become much more stable -That's what YOU think. In reality since, sometimes you happen to shutdown Lose95 before the GPF does it for you... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
