Re: Problems installing Debian
On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:00:09 -0800 "M.R.P. zensky" wrote: > One problem that I am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I > use a network card. I don’t I use home based wifi which I don’t see > an option for this. Debian considers wifi to be just another network card. However, many wifi cards require a special proprietary program, called firmware. These do not fit the Debian ideals, so they come separately. If your wifi card requires proprietary firmware, you may have to copy that onto your Debian computer manually. Let us know what kind of wifi card you have. As root, run lspci Copy and paste the results into an email. Then we can help you further. > The other problem is that it asks for a proxy for adding a > repository. I don’t know what to do with this either. Ignore this. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Problems installing Debian
On Sat 20 Feb 2021 at 16:00:09 (-0800), M.R.P. zensky wrote: > Hello I have successfully installed ubuntu linux on my system but I want to > use Debian. I download the iso file from their home page. One problem that I > am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I use a network card. I > don’t I use home based wifi which I don’t see an option for this. The other > problem is that it asks for a proxy for adding a repository. I don’t know > what to do with this either. How do you connect Debian to my home wifi? If you downloaded a file with firmware included, like firmware-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso, then the wifi will normally be detected, and you can choose the wl… interface. However, if the firmware version wasn't chosen, then you can install Debian using the firmware from your ubuntu system. If you # dmesg | grep firmware or $ sudo dmesg | grep firmware on the ubuntu system, the firmware that was required will be listed there. Copy the corresponding files from the /lib/firmware/… tree onto a USB stick, preferably at top level, and plug the stick in after you've started the Debian installation. The installer should then find it at the appropriate time. Ignore the proxy field: it's optional. Cheers, David.
Re: Problems installing Debian
If Debian can't detect your network card, I suggest using Debian DVD iso to install Debian, and then deal with the network card. https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/ You need "debian-10.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso". It can be used to install Debian without a network connection. You do not need to provide a proxy. Just leave this field blank. After successful installation, check that you can log into your system, and google " + Debian" or check this wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi You can also write the name of this card to this list: someone may be able to help you. On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 3:06 AM M.R.P. zensky wrote: > Hello I have successfully installed ubuntu linux on my system but I want > to use Debian. I download the iso file from their home page. One problem > that I am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I use a network > card. I don’t I use home based wifi which I don’t see an option for this. > The other problem is that it asks for a proxy for adding a repository. I > don’t know what to do with this either. How do you connect Debian to my > home wifi? >
Problems installing Debian
Hello I have successfully installed ubuntu linux on my system but I want to use Debian. I download the iso file from their home page. One problem that I am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I use a network card. I don’t I use home based wifi which I don’t see an option for this. The other problem is that it asks for a proxy for adding a repository. I don’t know what to do with this either. How do you connect Debian to my home wifi?
Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card. A couple questions: 1. Should I be using i386 or amd64 for this machine, to take best advantage of the 4 cores and the 8 Gb of RAM I have in the machine? probably amd64, though it's not completely there yet, unless you specifically need something from i386, I don't see any reason *not* to go to amd64. and it saves you from converting later... 2. How can I get the NIC to be recognized? I've seen many postings on the net saying to download Intel's e1000 driver and install that. However, at first my install had no compiler tools - based on doing a netinstall of 40r3 and proceeding with no NIC. Some of the postings said to use the unstable 2.6.24... version, which had the drivers included, but I can't seem to find where to get that. So, I burned the first stable 40r3 DVD and installed from that, but now I don't have development tools for the kernel / modules. I'm currently burning the other DVDs, and am hoping then I'll have all the resources I need to install the driver, but it seems that there must be a much easier way to do this...! the short answer is to stick a known good NIC in the box and get up and running then you can proceed to work on the onboard nic working. from my brief searching it appears (as of Aug 07) that there are no plans to put the code for that nic in the kernel tree, you have to build the driver from e1000.sourceforge.net. If you have access to another machine of the same archictecture, you can build the module there, stick it on a disk and then switch to a VT during install and insert the module from there. Might work. A When I tried etch, the hard drive and the ethernet card were not recognized. I got the newest install CD for lenny and the harddrive was recognized, but still no ethernet. I then put a e100 card in and the install went fine. After the install and upgrades, I plugged the onboard card back in and everything seems to be working fine, so somewhere it has been added to the kernel. My Dell 530 has a Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz. I am running the i386 debian. -mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:56:10AM -0400, mike wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card. ... 2. How can I get the NIC to be recognized? I've seen many postings on the net saying to download Intel's e1000 driver and install that. However, at first my install had no compiler tools - based on doing a netinstall of 40r3 and proceeding with no NIC. Some of the postings said to use the unstable 2.6.24... version, which had the drivers included, but I can't seem to find where to get that. So, I burned the first stable 40r3 DVD and installed from that, but now I don't have development tools for the kernel / modules. I'm currently burning the other DVDs, and am hoping then I'll have all the resources I need to install the driver, but it seems that there must be a much easier way to do this...! the short answer is to stick a known good NIC in the box and get up and running then you can proceed to work on the onboard nic working. from my brief searching it appears (as of Aug 07) that there are no plans to put the code for that nic in the kernel tree, you have to build the driver from e1000.sourceforge.net. ... When I tried etch, the hard drive and the ethernet card were not recognized. I got the newest install CD for lenny and the harddrive was recognized, but still no ethernet. I then put a e100 card in and the install went fine. After the install and upgrades, I plugged the onboard card back in and everything seems to be working fine, so somewhere it has been added to the kernel. My Dell 530 has a Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz. I am running the i386 debian. sounds like the installer's kernel doesn't have the e1000 module but the installed kernel does. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC
Thanks to those of you who sent ideas on solving this problem. I only tried one idea - get the daily unstable / testing build. I downloaded the amd64-netinst build from yesterday, Apr 9, and it recognized the NIC with no problem. I still have some things to get configured, but it could talk to the Net no problem. Apparently the current stable build just doesn't have the drivers for the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card included... Dan mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card. A couple questions: 1. Should I be using i386 or amd64 for this machine, to take best advantage of the 4 cores and the 8 Gb of RAM I have in the machine? probably amd64, though it's not completely there yet, unless you specifically need something from i386, I don't see any reason *not* to go to amd64. and it saves you from converting later... 2. How can I get the NIC to be recognized? I've seen many postings on the net saying to download Intel's e1000 driver and install that. However, at first my install had no compiler tools - based on doing a netinstall of 40r3 and proceeding with no NIC. Some of the postings said to use the unstable 2.6.24... version, which had the drivers included, but I can't seem to find where to get that. So, I burned the first stable 40r3 DVD and installed from that, but now I don't have development tools for the kernel / modules. I'm currently burning the other DVDs, and am hoping then I'll have all the resources I need to install the driver, but it seems that there must be a much easier way to do this...! the short answer is to stick a known good NIC in the box and get up and running then you can proceed to work on the onboard nic working. from my brief searching it appears (as of Aug 07) that there are no plans to put the code for that nic in the kernel tree, you have to build the driver from e1000.sourceforge.net. If you have access to another machine of the same archictecture, you can build the module there, stick it on a disk and then switch to a VT during install and insert the module from there. Might work. A When I tried etch, the hard drive and the ethernet card were not recognized. I got the newest install CD for lenny and the harddrive was recognized, but still no ethernet. I then put a e100 card in and the install went fine. After the install and upgrades, I plugged the onboard card back in and everything seems to be working fine, so somewhere it has been added to the kernel. My Dell 530 has a Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz. I am running the i386 debian. -mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC
I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card. A couple questions: 1. Should I be using i386 or amd64 for this machine, to take best advantage of the 4 cores and the 8 Gb of RAM I have in the machine? 2. How can I get the NIC to be recognized? I've seen many postings on the net saying to download Intel's e1000 driver and install that. However, at first my install had no compiler tools - based on doing a netinstall of 40r3 and proceeding with no NIC. Some of the postings said to use the unstable 2.6.24... version, which had the drivers included, but I can't seem to find where to get that. So, I burned the first stable 40r3 DVD and installed from that, but now I don't have development tools for the kernel / modules. I'm currently burning the other DVDs, and am hoping then I'll have all the resources I need to install the driver, but it seems that there must be a much easier way to do this...! Thanks in advance for your help and pointers. Dan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card. A couple questions: 1. Should I be using i386 or amd64 for this machine, to take best advantage of the 4 cores and the 8 Gb of RAM I have in the machine? probably amd64, though it's not completely there yet, unless you specifically need something from i386, I don't see any reason *not* to go to amd64. and it saves you from converting later... 2. How can I get the NIC to be recognized? I've seen many postings on the net saying to download Intel's e1000 driver and install that. However, at first my install had no compiler tools - based on doing a netinstall of 40r3 and proceeding with no NIC. Some of the postings said to use the unstable 2.6.24... version, which had the drivers included, but I can't seem to find where to get that. So, I burned the first stable 40r3 DVD and installed from that, but now I don't have development tools for the kernel / modules. I'm currently burning the other DVDs, and am hoping then I'll have all the resources I need to install the driver, but it seems that there must be a much easier way to do this...! the short answer is to stick a known good NIC in the box and get up and running then you can proceed to work on the onboard nic working. from my brief searching it appears (as of Aug 07) that there are no plans to put the code for that nic in the kernel tree, you have to build the driver from e1000.sourceforge.net. If you have access to another machine of the same archictecture, you can build the module there, stick it on a disk and then switch to a VT during install and insert the module from there. Might work. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Problems installing Debian 4.0
Hello, I am trying to install a Debian from a 4.0r0 netinst CD-Image. The installation fails reproducibly, however. I believe that this is due to the package file_4.17-etch2 being present on both the regular distribution server and the security server - but with different checksums! Please compare the entries for the packages file and libmagic1 in ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz and ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Am I missing something or is there really a misconfiguration in the current Debian archive? Cheers, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian 4.0
Alexander Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install a Debian from a 4.0r0 netinst CD-Image. The installation fails reproducibly, however. I believe that this is due to the package file_4.17-etch2 being present on both the regular distribution server and the security server - but with different checksums! Please compare the entries for the packages file and libmagic1 in ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/etch/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz and ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Am I missing something or is there really a misconfiguration in the current Debian archive? You seem to be right, this has been reported in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438626. If the whole installation fails, you may want to increase the severity to critical. A possible workaround is to disable the security server during the installation, you probably can re-add it after the base system is installed. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
At 1146526816 past the epoch, Piers Kittel wrote: Anyway, I've put the old 3GB hard drive back in, installed Windows 98 on, and Debian boots up (with the default 2.6 kernel with no parameters whatsover) and installing fine right now without any problems. Probably some BIOS limitation with the 40GB hard drive but then again, Win2k/Knoppix doesn't have any problem with it. It is almost certainly a kernel issue. You say default 2.6 kernel - the default kernel used for sarge installations is 2.4, iirc. Did you explicitly specify 2.6 when attempting the second (successful) time? What about the first? If this list doesn't help, there is a debian list specifically for laptop issues called debian-laptop that may be of use. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
To those who helped me, Thanks very much for all your advice, but I've tried all options to disable everything but they're kernel parameters which aren't taken in consideration that early I think? It stops exactly at the point right after uncompressing the kernel - it looks like a bit like trying to run a 686 compiled kernel on a 486. Anyway, I've put the old 3GB hard drive back in, installed Windows 98 on, and Debian boots up (with the default 2.6 kernel with no parameters whatsover) and installing fine right now without any problems. Probably some BIOS limitation with the 40GB hard drive but then again, Win2k/Knoppix doesn't have any problem with it. Never mind, I'm going to have to live with Windows 98 and Debian on a tiny hard drive :) Thanks to all again very much for your help - but I still would like to know how to install Debian on the 40GB hard drive. Regards - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
Piers Kittel wrote: Andrei Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might help. Or maybe Sarge r1 Andrei Tried the Sarge r1a netinst CD, and the etch testing netinst CD - both had the exact same problem, nothing happens after Ready. but after removing the hard drive from the laptop, it boots up fine though obviously I can't install without a hard drive. Thanks very much for your help again in advance. Regards - Piers I wonder whether it would be worth checking the CDROM device in Knoppix (/dev/???). I think that some laptops access the cd as though it were a floppy. Perhaps you could boot from boot floppies and then continue with the CD or network? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en If you have USB you could try Installing Debian Sarge from a USB memory stick (USB key) at http://d-i.pascal.at/ Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
On 4/17/06, Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Andrei Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one.It might help. Or maybe Sarge r1 Andrei Tried the Sarge r1a netinst CD, and the etch testing netinst CD - both had the exact same problem, nothing happens after Ready. but after removing the hard drive from the laptop, it boots up fine though obviously I can't install without a hard drive. Thanks very much for your help again in advance. Regards - Piers I wonder whether it would be worth checking the CDROM device in Knoppix(/dev/???). I think that some laptops access the cd as though it were afloppy.Perhaps you could boot from boot floppies and then continue with the CD or network? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.enIf you have USB you could try Installing Debian Sarge from a USB memory stick (USB key) at http://d-i.pascal.at/Chris--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]I´d try to disable some more options at boot time, like 'noapm', 'noacpi' and 'nodma'.
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might help. Or maybe Sarge r1 Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
Piers Kittel wrote: [sic] When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: == Booting from CD-ROM ISOLINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot: Loading /install/vmlinuz.. Loading /install/initrd.gz.. Ready. == When I was instaling Debian on my laptop it crashed somewhere near as you mentioned (I don't remember exactly). The solution was adding noapic kernel option at boot time: boot: linux noapic -- Mitja Podreka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop
Andrei Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might help. Or maybe Sarge r1 Andrei Tried the Sarge r1a netinst CD, and the etch testing netinst CD - both had the exact same problem, nothing happens after Ready. but after removing the hard drive from the laptop, it boots up fine though obviously I can't install without a hard drive. Thanks very much for your help again in advance. Regards - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Debian on old laptop
Hello all, Am trying to install Debian on a fairly old laptop (manufactured 1998), as I've broken my old one (flying hard drives and laptop LCD's doesn't mix well together) and can't afford a new one right now. The laptop is a Pico Systems (long since gone out of business - good riddance) Silvernote with the following spec: Mobile P1 MMX 233MHz (I have a P2 233MHz processor that fits but the case/processor fan has failed, so have gone back to old CPU to prevent overheating) 192 MB RAM upgraded from 128MB (maxed out) 40GB IBM Travelstar hard drive (upgraded from 3GB) dated Dec 2002 430TX chipset PIIX4 southbridge NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD video chipset Latest possible BIOS (either 8th March 1999 or 3rd August 1999) I've tried Knoppix 3.8.1 and it works perfectly fine (if a bit slow). I've installed Windows 2000 on it and it works perfectly fine. When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: == Booting from CD-ROM ISOLINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot: Loading /install/vmlinuz.. Loading /install/initrd.gz.. Ready. == and at this point it crashes completely. Pressing ctrl_alt+del works fine though. I've tried the CD-ROM in my broken laptop and it boots up fine, and I've tried a few Debian install CD-ROMs in the laptop and same problem. I tried booting Ubuntu (as a test, I much prefer to use Debian on such an old laptop) and it works fine, and I was able to install Ubuntu successfully on the laptop but when I reboot for the first time, GRUB crashes when loading itself (i.e. before displaying the kernel list) I just found out right now if I remove the hard drive and try the install CD, it works perfectly fine. Strange! The hard drive is laid out as follows: /dev/hda1 9.8gb windows /dev/hda2 27GB linux /dev/hda3 361MB (I assume swap - Ubuntu chose the partitions) with no more free space or partitions anywhere. So what am I doing wrong and how do I fix this problem please? Thanks very much for your help in advance! Regards - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Debian Linux 3.0r2 on a sun ultra5 (ultrassparc II)
Hi, sorry about that my last short subject line. I try it now again with a more precise subject line. I had a problem installing linux on a ultra5 with solaris 2.7 and solaris 2.8 on it. I had created the 5th partiton for linux and the 6th for the linux swap partiton (= hda5 / for linux with ext2 and hda6 for swap). Everything went ok until the task to make the system bootable. There were 3 possibilities: 1. Make the system bootable 2. Boot floppy 3. Alternate1 Because the first possibility would overwrite my bootblock for Solaris I tried to make a boot floppy for linux but without success. I've read somewhere that could be a problem with some ultrasparc machines like ultra5/10. I thought alternate1 wouldn't change the boot behaviour but I was wrong. The Debian linux installation has overwritten my boot block for solaris. I wasn't asked if I wanted to install SILO there and I don't know a reason for installing it on an other partition than my linux partition (/dev/hda5) but it has happened somehow ... The funny thing was that with alternate1 I can't start solaris and I can't start linux. There wasn't a possibility for me not to corrupt my boot block with SILO from Debian, that should and need not be. The easiest thing would be to add a possibility which calls silo -t or silo -r /mnt -t or something like that. It was really nasty to repair the thing. Just using dd from a rescue disk and deleting the first sector like: # make a backup of the boot sector dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot_512.sonne bs=512 count=1 # clean the boot sector dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 doesn't work. The first sector just contain the disk lable and partition information. The boot block on sparc machines are the next 15 sectors or something like that. The only possibility for me was to start the solaris installation cd. During the installation process Openwin is started and there I got a shell to run installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 With silo -t I had managed it to be able to get SILO just to my linux partition and boot it with boot disk:e I've read that there should be soon a new GNU Debian version and it would be great if there's an easy possiblity to install with -t option. OpenBoot is really an easy and nice possibility to boot several operating systems, so just booting into SILO isn't nice in every case especially if solaris or bsd is used, too. GNU Debian is a really nice linux but it would be even nicer if the installation process of silo or maybe grub let the user the possibility to still use OpenBoot for the other operating systems. I hope the description of my problems can help other people to solve them without having much trouble installing linux parallel to sparc solaris. Maybe there's a better solution in the new soon coming Debian Linux and maybe there are other better solution of installing Debian on sparc but I try a short abstract: At the boot loader installation just select Make system bootable = the boot block of solaris can be overwritten but this isn't problematic if you have the solaris installation CDs. After completing the linux installation run silo -t Then boot the solaris CDs and run e.g. installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 for installing the solaris boo block on the first partition on an ide disk. Now you can boot Solaris and linux again without configure silo.conf Kind regards Roland which had problems installing linux on there sparc machine parallel to solaris I hope this description of my problems may help other people during there linux i - End forwarded message - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 Derek Chew En-Hock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't reboot)... This seemed to be the last post in this thread and I assumed that this might have some chance of working but I could not get it to be so. The woody install CD's don't appear to support jumping out and being able to compile a kernel (not really surprising). What you can do however is copy the dpt_i2o.o module from the floppy (http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ I already had a copy from prior to the break in) to /lib/../scsi/ by invoking a shell. I had several goes at this as it's not exactly obvious where to do it and once done it breaks the flow of the install process. Once done you can boot from the 2400a (or presumably whatever card you have) and compile a kernel in the normal way. Hopefully this will help others. Bring on Sarge -- Robert Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current abilities... Does anyone know of a way I can extract the drivers from the Redhat disc or boot disc and use it to help in the Debian Installation? feel a little uncomfortable moving away from my comfy Debian machines... DCEH I still having big problems with this machine... I tried redoing the DCEH setup again this time using EXT3 for the root partition incase I DCEH messed up something else but still no go... did quite a fair bit of DCEH google groups searching but no one else seems to have this issue... DCEH don't tell me I have to give up using Debian on this machine???!!! -- Best regards, Derekmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:11, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current abilities... Does anyone know of a way I can extract the drivers from the Redhat disc or boot disc and use it to help in the Debian Installation? feel a little uncomfortable moving away from my comfy Debian machines... You need CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O set in the kernel. The woody install disks' bf24 kernel does not have this included, so you need to build a kernel for it. If the RAID card has the only disks, this gives you a bootstrapping problem; I can provide you with a kernel-image deb for such a kernel, but you would need to be in a position to run dpkg in order to make use of it. I had to build a new bootable CD in order to get Debian loaded onto the machine in question. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.James 4:7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:39:48 +0100, Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:11, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current abilities... Does anyone know of a way I can extract the drivers from the Redhat disc or boot disc and use it to help in the Debian Installation? feel a little uncomfortable moving away from my comfy Debian machines... You need CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O set in the kernel. The woody install disks' bf24 kernel does not have this included, so you need to build a kernel for it. If the RAID card has the only disks, this gives you a bootstrapping problem; I can provide you with a kernel-image deb for such a kernel, but you would need to be in a position to run dpkg in order to make use of it. I had to build a new bootable CD in order to get Debian loaded onto the machine in question. ..Oliver, would your boot image cover software raid setups too? And install from network? Say from a lan mirror? If so, image url? ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
You wrote: ..Oliver, would your boot image cover software raid setups too? And install from network? Say from a lan mirror? If so, image url? ;-) Sorry; it was a specific build for a hardware RAID machine. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.James 4:7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
Hello Oliver, good to hear from you again... let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't reboot)... then what I need to do is to transfer a copy of the Kernel Sources to the Hard Disk and shell to command line from the Debian Installer and do a recompile of the Kernel eh? Anyway the machine is running Redhat now but everything seems to be in wierd places now... going to do the Debian installation in a few moments and hope to hear from you soon! Thanks for looking into this for me! Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 9:13:25 PM, you wrote: OE It is a macro that is defined when building a kernel from source. It is OE in the SCSI low-level drivers section. OE If the RAID array is the boot disk, you can't boot from it if its driver OE is a module - the module must be built into the kernel. Otherwise it OE will try to read the module from the RAID, but it doesn't yet know how OE to read the RAID... OE If you can make a boot floppy that works, the next stage is to install OE kernel-source-2.4.21 and kernel-package, and configure, build and OE install your new kernel. But if you don't know anything about building OE the kernel from source, you may need to read up on that first. -- Best regards, Derekmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
Hey Guys, I still having big problems with this machine... I tried redoing the setup again this time using EXT3 for the root partition incase I messed up something else but still no go... did quite a fair bit of google groups searching but no one else seems to have this issue... don't tell me I have to give up using Debian on this machine???!!! DCEH Hi Everyone, DCEH been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of DCEH it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines DCEH (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying DCEH to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the DCEH experience has been quite good... In fact, a few months ago, I shifted DCEH from using my Win XP machine to my Debian Machine as my main machine DCEH at home... while my XP Machine is just left for me to play EVE-online DCEH :) DCEH Anyway, recently I was handed a PIII Machine which has a 3 disk RAID 5 DCEH array created using an Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Controller... I wanted DCEH to install Debian on it for use as an Intranet Web Server for the DCEH office... Well, I booted off the Debian 3.0 Disc 1, used the bf24 DCEH option and discovered that I could not find any hard drives on DCEH board... looking around the USENET for clues, I found out that you DCEH needed to use a floppy to load in the required modules to get Debian DCEH to recognise the RAID Controller.. I managed to find a floppy image at DCEH http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and it managed to DCEH allow my Debian installation to happily detect the RAID Controller... DCEH I then proceeded to partition my disk as follows: DCEH /dev/sda0 /boot ext2 700 MB DCEH /dev/sda1 / Reisfer FS110 GB DCEH /dev/sd3 SWAP1.2 GB DCEH I set a swap partition to 1.2 GB as I have 512 Meg of RAM and I think DCEH I read somewhere that you should have a swap partition with a minimum DCEH of twice your available RAM right? DCEH Anyway, I made /dev/sda0 bootable and rebooted the machine... what DCEH greeted me was a blinking cursor and a beeping sound... DCEH I also tried to reinstall and add the some RAID5 kernel modules during DCEH the setup but that doesn't help either... DCEH Any suggestions any one? Apparently there isn't much people on USENET DCEH with 2400A Linux machines as I could only find a few posting and their DCEH situations doesn't help mine much... DCEH -- DCEH Best regards, DCEH Derek mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Derekmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the experience has been quite good... In fact, a few months ago, I shifted from using my Win XP machine to my Debian Machine as my main machine at home... while my XP Machine is just left for me to play EVE-online :) Anyway, recently I was handed a PIII Machine which has a 3 disk RAID 5 array created using an Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Controller... I wanted to install Debian on it for use as an Intranet Web Server for the office... Well, I booted off the Debian 3.0 Disc 1, used the bf24 option and discovered that I could not find any hard drives on board... looking around the USENET for clues, I found out that you needed to use a floppy to load in the required modules to get Debian to recognise the RAID Controller.. I managed to find a floppy image at http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and it managed to allow my Debian installation to happily detect the RAID Controller... I then proceeded to partition my disk as follows: /dev/sda0 /boot ext2 700 MB /dev/sda1 / Reisfer FS110 GB /dev/sd3 SWAP1.2 GB I set a swap partition to 1.2 GB as I have 512 Meg of RAM and I think I read somewhere that you should have a swap partition with a minimum of twice your available RAM right? Anyway, I made /dev/sda0 bootable and rebooted the machine... what greeted me was a blinking cursor and a beeping sound... I also tried to reinstall and add the some RAID5 kernel modules during the setup but that doesn't help either... Any suggestions any one? Apparently there isn't much people on USENET with 2400A Linux machines as I could only find a few posting and their situations doesn't help mine much... -- Best regards, Derek mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5array as boot drive
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some quirks, the experience has been quite good... In fact, a few months ago, I shifted from using my Win XP machine to my Debian Machine as my main machine at home... while my XP Machine is just left for me to play EVE-online :) Anyway, recently I was handed a PIII Machine which has a 3 disk RAID 5 array created using an Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Controller... I wanted to install Debian on it for use as an Intranet Web Server for the office... Well, I booted off the Debian 3.0 Disc 1, used the bf24 option and discovered that I could not find any hard drives on board... looking around the USENET for clues, I found out that you needed to use a floppy to load in the required modules to get Debian to recognise the RAID Controller.. I managed to find a floppy image at http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ and it managed to allow my Debian installation to happily detect the RAID Controller... I then proceeded to partition my disk as follows: /dev/sda0 /boot ext2 700 MB /dev/sda1 / Reisfer FS110 GB /dev/sd3 SWAP1.2 GB I set a swap partition to 1.2 GB as I have 512 Meg of RAM and I think I read somewhere that you should have a swap partition with a minimum of twice your available RAM right? Anyway, I made /dev/sda0 bootable and rebooted the machine... what greeted me was a blinking cursor and a beeping sound... I also tried to reinstall and add the some RAID5 kernel modules during the setup but that doesn't help either... Any suggestions any one? Apparently there isn't much people on USENET with 2400A Linux machines as I could only find a few posting and their situations doesn't help mine much... Perhaps it's a quirk of booting off scsi disks. Is the scsi card bootable? Is the bios set right? Is the card driver available at boot-time using the initrd system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive
Its actually a ATA RAID Card which uses DPTI2O Drivers... and I know its bootable as the machine used to be running Microsoft Small Business Server and it used the RAID Array as a boot disc... another thing is the Adaptec Diagnostic CD uses a strip down version of Linux to run... so I know that this card is definately supported... The BIOS should be set right... as for whether the card driver is avaliable during bootup, I'm not too sure as it never reaches that stage to display any messages On Thursday 04 September 2003 18:34, Russell Shaw wrote: Perhaps it's a quirk of booting off scsi disks. Is the scsi card bootable? Is the bios set right? Is the card driver available at boot-time using the initrd system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems Installing Debian with Fasttrak 378 / SATA150
Hello, I've been on problems to install Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody with bf24 kernel. 1. The install don't detect the chipset (FastTrak 378)or the hd. System: P4 2.4 Board Albatron 845PE Pro II with Promise Fasttrak 378 / SATA150 1 HD IBM 80GB IDE (is connected on the IDE of the Fasttrak) The other 4 IDE of the board are already in use. 2. What I have tried. I've disconnected all IDE from board with exception to the HD80GB and one CDROM on /dev/hdc When it boot up from CD I've tried 'Debian Promise FastTrak RAID HOWTO by moyix - Monday, April 29th 2002 18:18 PST' without success. 3. I didn't try other distros and I don't want to. 4. What can I try? Thanks, Paulo Neves -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Debian 3.0 (pre) Woody
Hi everybody, I think Debian is a great thing because it offers alot of packages (esp. many, many games). Unfortunately, I have problems installing Debian 3.0 (pre) Woody: 1) After inserting CD1, booting from it and pressing enter at the boot prompt, it boots to the display of my drives (hda, hdc, hdd) which have been correctly detected, but then my screen goes black and after a short time my monitor switsches to stand-by mode. My system is freezed (hard-reset only) 2) Changed the setting AC 97 MODEM in my bios to off. Now it boots to the message md driver ... and freezes. 3) Changed back my settings in the bios AC 97 MODEM to on. Same problem as in 1) Do you know any solution??? My system: Elitegroup K7S5A AMD Duron 1 GHz 512 MB DDR 40 GB IBM Harddisk (DTLA-305040) DVD-ROM LG DRD-8160B CD-WRITER LG GCE-8240B TEAC Floppy KYRO II graphicscard Microsoft WheelMouse Optical Thnx for every response Chris
Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700, there seems to be 2 problems: 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk just in case. 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing. I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition configurations. Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this? Cheers, --David Randelman
Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
Do you have helpfull boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? You'll need parport and a bunch of other ones. The kernel menuconfig should be able to explain it to you better than I can pull it out of a hat. --mike On 09 Aug 2001 18:01:36 +0300, David Randelman wrote: I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700, there seems to be 2 problems: 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk just in case. 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing. I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition configurations. Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this? Cheers, --David Randelman
Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
You're welcome. The rescue disk is simply a generic boot kernel to get your system running. Is your lilo.conf set to linear? Are you root when you try and update the boot sector? What does the error say when lilo can't install the boot sector. On 09 Aug 2001 19:32:58 +0300, David Randelman wrote: Thanks for the tip. I know I don't have a boot sector protection, But on the other hand why should I have to have rescue disks at all? --David - Original Message - From: Michael Heldebrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:14 PM Subject: Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700. Do you have helpfull boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? You'll need parport and a bunch of other ones. The kernel menuconfig should be able to explain it to you better than I can pull it out of a hat. --mike On 09 Aug 2001 18:01:36 +0300, David Randelman wrote: I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700, there seems to be 2 problems: 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk just in case. 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing. I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition configurations. Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this? Cheers, --David Randelman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:01:36PM +0300, David Randelman wrote: I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700, there seems to be 2 problems: 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk just in case. Hum, I've installed Debian on my laptop (same make/model as yours) a couple of times and never had this problem. Is it LILO that won't start? Will it even install on it? I partitioned my disk as follows hda1HPFS/NTFS (hardly used, but there for work reasons) hda2Fat32 (To move files between win2k/Linux environment) hda3ext2/boot hda4extended had5ext2/ hda6swap 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing. Hum, haven't tried the floppy. Such outdated technology. ;) //Fredde
Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
On Aug 09 2001, David Randelman wrote: 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk just in case. Which version of Debian are you trying to use? I think that if the kernel used by the version you're trying to use is not recent enough, then it will have problems partitioning the HD. I just bought a used Compaq Armada V300 and it works well with a RedHat 7.1 install that I made (although with some features not being enabled for lack of drivers), but I'll soon be using my usual modified/tweaked Debian with it. What problems are you having, more specifically? I.e., which messages does it issue? 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing. Can't help you here. I have never used one of these devices (in fact, I'm quite new to the laptop world). []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Problems installing debian Potato 2.2r2 on an AMI MegaRAID
Hi there, I'm trying to install Debian on an AMI MegaRAID Elite 1500. However, when the CD boots up, it freezes after it detected the MegaRAID card (the line showing IRQ etc). Is there any way to install Debian directly onto a drive connected to this card, without using an IDE drive as targetdisk? I _really_ need to get this running :/ -Rick Jansen ** Server Administrator [Linux - FreeBSD] Websites: www.shellz.nl www.tweakers.net ICQ#: 37416519 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message A20 gate not responding!... [snip] The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info about the hardware, please let me know. Could it be that the kernel on the rescue disk was compiled for 586+? Could that be causing it? I'm grasping I know, but... :) alan, out on a limb. The A20 line has something to do with working around a bug in memory addressing that first showed up in 286's I think. I don't really know much about it, but on my 486, their is an option in the BIOS to set the line. You might try changing this option in the Bios at boot and see if it helps. Gerald
Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote: The A20 line has something to do with working around a bug in memory addressing that first showed up in 286's I think. I don't really know much about it, but on my 486, their is an option in the BIOS to set the line. You might try changing this option in the Bios at boot and see if it helps. The original 8088 had 20 address lines called A0 through A19. This allowed it to directly access 1024k of memory. (It was split 640k/384k as RAM/ROM. It could have been worse, my understanding is that the original plan was to split it half and half. Oh, and the 8086 had 19 address lines called A1 through A19. I digress.) Anyway, on the 8086's and 8088's you could access the bottom 65520 bytes of RAM by setting the segment register to the very top of RAM and using an offset larger than the amount of RAM above the start of the segment register. Anyway, along comes the 80286. It has, in effect, 24 address lines (A0 through A23) for a total allowed memory of 16,384k. That broke those programs that relied upon the memory wrapping around. Since they all ran under DOS and since DOS was limited to 1024k, PC manufacturers put a control in which would not pass the A20 line through to the RAM, which had the effect of simulating the behavior of the 8086/8. That's what the A20 gate is about. You could run some DOS programs with the A20 gate disabled that you couldn't run with it enabled. You, of course, want to run a protected-mode operating system, where relying on tricks like that simply cannot work. Since many people also wanted to run protected mode software, (to do things like loadhi and with extended memory and suchlike) the mboard manufacturers made that gate configurable. That's the whole story, to the best of my knowledge. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486
There is one more thing. On 286's and above when in real mode, if the segment register is set to 0x then the address's above 0x will overflow into address bit a20 giving access to an additional 65k(-16 bytes) of memory in real mode. This was known as 'hi-mem' access and dos 4.0 and above used this trick. (meant turning that a20 gate on to allow a20 through). === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486
Matthew Gregan wrote: At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message A20 gate not responding!... I can't answer your question, BUT I can tell you this: This is to do with protected mode, and the keyboard. the only other time that I know of this occuring is occasionally with himem.sys (xx-DOS) on older hardware. If it can't do this, HIMEM.SYS uses some other handler - not sure how linux is meant to do this. frankie [snip] The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info about the hardware, please let me know. Could it be that the kernel on the rescue disk was compiled for 586+? Could that be causing it? I'm grasping I know, but... :) These are the rescue disks from the debian-slink disk-i386 dir... I'm pretty sure they're not using a kernel for 586+ architecture... I should also mention that someone suggested I try the tecra rescue disk. I did that, and had no luck... I get the same message, so now I'm really stumped, having read the readme for the tecra disk I would have though that'd fix the problem. Thanks again... -- Matthew Gregan[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;Birmingham;;;UK version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr x-mozilla-cpt:;-8160 fn:Frankie end:vcard
Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486
Subject: RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486 Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:43:47AM +1200 In reply to:Matthew Gregan Quoting Matthew Gregan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message A20 gate not responding!... [snip] The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info about the hardware, please let me know. Could it be that the kernel on the rescue disk was compiled for 586+? Could that be causing it? I'm grasping I know, but... :) These are the rescue disks from the debian-slink disk-i386 dir... I'm pretty sure they're not using a kernel for 586+ architecture... I should also mention that someone suggested I try the tecra rescue disk. I did that, and had no luck... I get the same message, so now I'm really stumped, having read the readme for the tecra disk I would have though that'd fix the problem. Thanks again... -- Matthew Gregan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just had a light bulb go on. I may be out in left field but I seem to remember a bios option for the A20 gate in my old 486DX50. You might give that a look. HTH -- ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Debian on a 486
Hi everyone. I've got 2 old 486 machines here that I'm trying to install slink onto. One of them is a Compaq Deskpro 486/33M and the other is built out of off the shelf parts. I've managed to install onto the Compaq machine with no problems whatsoever, but when I try to boot the rescue/install disk on the other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message A20 gate not responding!... I don't know what the problem is, so I was hoping someone could help me out. I've tried turning off both processors caches in the BIOS, but that made no difference... I can't see any BIOS entries relating to the A20 gate, so I haven't been able to experiment with that... The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info about the hardware, please let me know. Thanks in advance. -- Matthew Gregan[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486
other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message A20 gate not responding!... [snip] The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info about the hardware, please let me know. Could it be that the kernel on the rescue disk was compiled for 586+? Could that be causing it? I'm grasping I know, but... :) alan, out on a limb. --- Alan Bailward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.northco.net/alan He who is known as an early riser need not get up until noon.
RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486
At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message A20 gate not responding!... [snip] The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info about the hardware, please let me know. Could it be that the kernel on the rescue disk was compiled for 586+? Could that be causing it? I'm grasping I know, but... :) These are the rescue disks from the debian-slink disk-i386 dir... I'm pretty sure they're not using a kernel for 586+ architecture... I should also mention that someone suggested I try the tecra rescue disk. I did that, and had no luck... I get the same message, so now I'm really stumped, having read the readme for the tecra disk I would have though that'd fix the problem. Thanks again... -- Matthew Gregan[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems installing Debian (2)
Just to clarify my previous post, I'm installing on a desktop not laptop, and in any case i tried the tecra rescue disk, also without any luck. I've been going through this list's mail archives and it seems other people managed to clear up problems similar to mine using those disks, but not me
Re: Problems installing Debian
I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first. Hope this helps Mike On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Alexander Bugeja wrote: I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the following messages Loading root.bin... Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started.
Re: Problems installing Debian
Thanks for your reply. However I tried 3 different floppies, all without success - none of them has bad sectors either. I really don't think this is a floppy problem. Alex. I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first. Hope this helps Mike
Re: Problems installing Debian
Had this problem with the Solaris 2.6, I ended up playing with the memory timing settings, set them slower. Just an idea... Peter Barbera Michael B. Taylor wrote: I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first. Hope this helps Mike On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Alexander Bugeja wrote: I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the following messages Loading root.bin... Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Of course, there are degrees of rottenness. Some bad error messages, Ezzell says, are just placeholders that slip through. We've all been there. Ezzell acknowledges he once wrote a message that addressed the user as Dumbkopf and was mortified when the dialog made its way into production. Thus, he sympathized with Orem, Utah-based Viewpoint DataLabs, which managed to include the following in its LiveArt install: Setup is unable to locate a suitable version of DirectX on your machine. You will need to install DirectX before you can use LiveArt98, dumbass!
Problems installing Debian
I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the following messages Loading root.bin... Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started. Can anyone help? Thanks. Alex.
Re: Problems installing Debian from 1.3.1 CDROM
Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, but my original message was a bit corrupted. Heres what it should have said: I'm trying to install debian from the Official 1.3.1 distribution, unfortunately the setup routines cannot mount my cdrom. The CDROM is detected (as /dev/hdd) but when it comes to mount the CDROM to install Debian, I get the following message: Bad logical zone size 1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems I can install Debian (to a certain extent by copying the contents of the CDROM to the Harddrive but this screws up the symbolic links and file names. However I still cannot mount the CDROM. My PC is based around an AMD-K6 200Mhz and a SOYO 5BT5 motherboard which uses the INTEL TX chipset. Under the previous setup (a Pentium 75Mhz and unnamed motherboard, the CDROM worked fine. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? TIA BTW I am booting from the CDROM to install debian. I have just tried installing Redhat 5.0 and have come up against the same problem. -- Giles Paterson 3rd Year MEng Software Engineering Student Department of Computing, University of Bradford -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems installing Debian from 1.3.1 CDROM
I'm trying to install debian from the Official 1.3.1 distribution, unfortunately the setup routines cannot mount my cdrom. The CDROM is detected (as /dev/hdd) but when it comes to mount the CDROM to install Debian, I get the following message: Bad logical zone size 1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems CDROM to the Harddrive but this screws up the symbolic links and file names HOwever I still cannot mount the CDROM. My PC is based around an AMD-K6 200Mhz and a SOYO 5BT5 motherboard which uses the INTEL TX chipset. Under the previous setup (a Pentium 75Mhz and unnamed motherboard, the CDROM worked fine. Does anyone have any ides or solutions? TIA -- Giles Paterson 3rd Year MEng Software Engineering Student Department of Computing, University of Bradford -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
Dale Scheetz wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Hi everybody! I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 problems: 1. Installation. Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I can't remember exactly). I installed Linux on my second scsi-drive: /dev/sdb7 / (40 MB) /dev/sdb9 /usr (1.5 GB) /dev/sdb10 /home (250 MB) /dev/sdb11 /var (150 MB) /dev/sdb12 swap I have already installed OS/2-Bootmanager in /sda1. At the moment I need to use a bootdisk to start Linux :( 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the message 'You entered an invalid value'. What did I wrong? If this is the SoundBlaster Pro CD driver (sbpcd) then you must edit the source (possibly the header file as well) There are some notes on this issue in the source code. Are you using bash 2.0? There is a *bug* in the configure script in the kernel source tree. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 01:12:33PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the message 'You entered an invalid value'. What did I wrong? If this is the SoundBlaster Pro CD driver (sbpcd) then you must edit the source (possibly the header file as well) There are some notes on this issue in the source code. No, there is/was a bug in the kernel configuration scripts where it won't accept any values for one of these settings. I had to enter nothing and edit .config by hand. You can set the sbpcd settings on the command line to the kernel or to the module; much more practical than editing the kernel source for every new version. My conf.modules says options sbpcd sbpcd=0x330,0 which is for a lasermate interface at 0x330; it's just a small CD-ROM only controller, no sound card etc. Quotes are required for the module only. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made bootable, however). I thought debian did this anyway, and installed the mbr program into /dev/hda or /dev/sda instead, which would then boot the partition marked active. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 47% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made bootable, however). I thought debian did this anyway, and installed the mbr program into /dev/hda or /dev/sda instead, which would then boot the partition marked active. Installing on /dev/hda puts it into the MBR of the disk, which would make LILO the boot manager. I don't remember the exact wording of the options on a new Debian install, but I recall that it was clear that you had a choice of installing into the MBR or the root partition (or possibly not at all). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems installing Debian 1.3
Hi everybody! I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 problems: 1. Installation. Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I can't remember exactly). I installed Linux on my second scsi-drive: /dev/sdb7 / (40 MB) /dev/sdb9 /usr (1.5 GB) /dev/sdb10 /home (250 MB) /dev/sdb11 /var (150 MB) /dev/sdb12 swap I have already installed OS/2-Bootmanager in /sda1. At the moment I need to use a bootdisk to start Linux :( 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the message 'You entered an invalid value'. What did I wrong? yours joerg -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Hi everybody! I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 problems: 1. Installation. Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I can't remember exactly). I installed Linux on my second scsi-drive: /dev/sdb7 / (40 MB) /dev/sdb9 /usr (1.5 GB) /dev/sdb10 /home (250 MB) /dev/sdb11 /var (150 MB) /dev/sdb12 swap I have already installed OS/2-Bootmanager in /sda1. At the moment I need to use a bootdisk to start Linux :( 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the message 'You entered an invalid value'. What did I wrong? If this is the SoundBlaster Pro CD driver (sbpcd) then you must edit the source (possibly the header file as well) There are some notes on this issue in the source code. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:43:00 +0200, Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Joerg Hi everybody! Joerg I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 Joerg problems: Joerg 1. Installation. Joerg Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. Joerg There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I Joerg can't remember exactly). I installed Linux on my second scsi-drive: Joerg /dev/sdb7 / (40 MB) Joerg /dev/sdb9 /usr (1.5 GB) Joerg /dev/sdb10 /home (250 MB) Joerg /dev/sdb11 /var (150 MB) Joerg /dev/sdb12 swap Joerg I have already installed OS/2-Bootmanager in /sda1. At the moment I need to Joerg use a bootdisk to start Linux :( Sorry, kann ich nicht weiter helfen, wie man dem OS/2 Boot-Manager sagt, daß er Linux booten soll Joerg 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel Joerg I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster Joerg Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the Joerg message 'You entered an invalid value'. Joerg What did I wrong? Nichts, ich nehme an die Kernel-Version ist unter 2.0.30. In den Shellutils wurden einige Sachen geändert (Posic Konformität, Debian 1.3 enthält bereits die neueren Versionen. Unter anderem wurde die Syntax des expr-Befehls so geändert, daß die Skripte, die die Eingabe des make menuconfig checken immer einen Fehler liefern. Bei Kernel Version 2.0.30 ist das nicht mehr der Fall. Der soll korrigierte expr- Aufrufe enthalten. Hier sind die Änderungen, die ich an bei Version 2.0.29 eingetragen habe: Im scripts-Verzeichnis sehen die Shell expressions nun so aus: (getestet mit sh-utils V1.16) Configure:294:if expr $ans : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null; then Configure:325:if expr $ans : '[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]*$' /dev/null; then Menuconfig:403: if expr $answer : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null Menuconfig:436: if expr $answer : '[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]*$' /dev/null Hope This helps -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5 letters so has death -- -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
Sorry fellows, my mail reader set a CC: to the list which I didn't see :-( -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5 letters so has death -- -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: Hi everybody! I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 problems: 1. Installation. Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. There was an error message like 'Can't install lilo on second Hard Disk' (I can't remember exactly). I installed Linux on my second scsi-drive: /dev/sdb7 / (40 MB) /dev/sdb9 /usr (1.5 GB) /dev/sdb10 /home (250 MB) /dev/sdb11 /var (150 MB) /dev/sdb12 swap I have already installed OS/2-Bootmanager in /sda1. At the moment I need to use a bootdisk to start Linux :( Joerg, If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made bootable, however). Then you need to configure Boot Manager to add Linux to the menu (pointing to /dev/sdb7) and configure /etc/lilo.conf appropriately to point to where LILO and the kernel, etc., are located (see the appropriate HOWTO for LILO). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems installing debian 1.2
* Please reply by e-mail * I am trying to install debian 1.2 on a PC from scratch. The initial installation works fine, but I have problems with package selection using dselect. I ahve copied the source tree from ftp.debian.org and I am using rex-fixed as og Jan 3 i) Several packages complain about a missing package called elf-x11r6lib ii) if I try to override and install anyway, I get a whole bunch of errors like: find: var/lib/dpkg No such file or dir which apprently originate from symbolic links which point to non-existent files. I would be *really* greatful for any help, thanks in advance, /M\ ~~ Work: +47 22453272 Fax: +47 22453205 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: +47 8585WWW: www.iu.hioslo.no/~mark ~~ /M\ ~~ Work: +47 22453272 Fax: +47 22453205 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: +47 8585WWW: www.iu.hioslo.no/~mark ~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
