Re: Installation problem

[Dan Ritter]

David Christensen wrote: 
> On 2/28/21 2:12 PM, Alan Glasser wrote:
> > I am trying to install Buster on an old 386.
> 
> I do not believe the Intel 80386 processor is supported by Linux any more:
> 
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=MTI0OTg

Good catch.

$50 in Raspberry Pi parts is literally much faster than any 386
ever made. The $100 Raspberry Pi 400 kit is everything needed
for a desktop system except for a monitor.

-dsr-

Re: Installation problem

[Darac Marjal]

On 28/02/2021 22:12, Alan Glasser wrote:
> I am trying to install Buster on an old 386.
> I burned the three full DVDs.
> I boot the first DVD and it gets to the point of asking about
> additional cds/dvds.
> I push the eject button on my dvd drive and nothing happens.  I try to
> do a forced eject
> with a paperclip, but that doesn't work either.  I click "No" as I
> can't eject the DVD.
> Nothing happens.
>
> This is repeatable on my machine.
> Three times; same behavior.
>
> Any ideas?

Try switching to a Console (Left Alt + F4) and running the command
"eject". Operating systems have the ability to "lock" optical drives so
that you don't, say, eject a drive that's being written to. The
Installer should, clearly, be unlocking the drive at this point if it
expects you to swap disks, but either you're not at the right point in
the installer (might you, for example, be on an explanation page, and
the NEXT page is where the drive unlocks?) or there's a bug. Either way,
'eject' should at the very least give you an error message you can work
with.


>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Alan Glasser
>



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Re: Installation problem

[David Christensen]

On 2/28/21 2:12 PM, Alan Glasser wrote:

I am trying to install Buster on an old 386.
I burned the three full DVDs.
I boot the first DVD and it gets to the point of asking about additional
cds/dvds.
I push the eject button on my dvd drive and nothing happens.  I try to do a
forced eject
with a paperclip, but that doesn't work either.  I click "No" as I can't
eject the DVD.
Nothing happens.

This is repeatable on my machine.
Three times; same behavior.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.


I do not believe the Intel 80386 processor is supported by Linux any more:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=MTI0OTg


David

Re: Installation problem

[Dan Ritter]

Alan Glasser wrote: 
> I am trying to install Buster on an old 386.
> I burned the three full DVDs.
> I boot the first DVD and it gets to the point of asking about additional
> cds/dvds.

You don't need them at this point. You can add them later.

-dsr-

Re: Installation Problem

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Mi, 15 iul 20, 18:07:53, Vlad Dragomir wrote:
> Worked like a charm, I'm almost at the end of the installation process.
> 
> Yes indeed, the downloaded archive contains more firmware compared to the 
> installation disc, not very logical in my opinion but I am not a pro.
> 
> Thank you so much, virtual pints for everybody!

Hi Vlad,

This sounds like a problem with either the installer or the way the 
image was built.

Please file an "installation-report" after you are finished with

reportbug installation-report

Have fun with Debian,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser


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RE: Installation Problem

[Vlad Dragomir]

Worked like a charm, I'm almost at the end of the installation process.

Yes indeed, the downloaded archive contains more firmware compared to the 
installation disc, not very logical in my opinion but I am not a pro.

Thank you so much, virtual pints for everybody!

Cheers,

Vlad.

Re: Installation Problem

[Dan Ritter]

Vlad Dragomir wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you all for all those great responses, I'm definitely grateful.
> 
> Dan, I followed your instructions, please tell me if this is the expected 
> output, I'll try to transcribe everything:
> Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
> 
> Would you please tell me what to do next?

Good news. This adapter is well-supported. It does need a
non-free firmware blob, which is packaged as firmware-iwlwifi.

The curious thing is, the install disc that you downloaded
should have that package.

Anyway. Grab
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/buster/current/

and uncompress one of those three archives on a USB stick; when
the installer asks you if you have a removable disk with drivers
or firmware, plug it in.

Around the middle of the install, the installer will ask you
what Debian repositories to enable. In addition to selecting
security updates, add non-free. 

-dsr-

Re: Installation Problem

[Richard Owlett]

On 07/14/2020 03:33 PM, Vlad Dragomir wrote:

Good evening,

I am very new to Debian, and would like to apologise first, I might not know 
how exactly to describe this issue.

I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, [ *SNIP* ]


What is make and model of the laptop?

Re: Installation Problem

[tomas]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:14:16PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 05:43:06 (+0200), Vlad Dragomir wrote:
> > 
> > I found that file too, actually I found four or five of them, but not all. 
> > I put them on the USB installation drive but the installer kept asking for 
> > them. I'm sorry, I should have been more precise when I said that Google 
> > didn't help me much. What I meant was: it only found a few of those files 
> > and they were ignored by the installer.
> 
> The most reliable place I've found in the past was in the top-level
> directory on an ordinary FAT-partitioned USB stick.
> 
> The installer writes a log to VC4, which should record where it
 

This is "virtual console 4". You switch to it by hitting CTRL-ALT-F4.
Similarly...

> looks. If the lines in question have already scrolled off the screen,
> the log can be displayed (rather tediously) with the command
> # more /var/log/syslog
> in a shell you can open on VC2 or VC3.

...for the other virtual consoles.

Cheers
-- t


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Re: Installation Problem

[David Wright]

On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 05:43:06 (+0200), Vlad Dragomir wrote:
> 
> I found that file too, actually I found four or five of them, but not all. I 
> put them on the USB installation drive but the installer kept asking for 
> them. I'm sorry, I should have been more precise when I said that Google 
> didn't help me much. What I meant was: it only found a few of those files and 
> they were ignored by the installer.

The most reliable place I've found in the past was in the top-level
directory on an ordinary FAT-partitioned USB stick.

The installer writes a log to VC4, which should record where it
looks. If the lines in question have already scrolled off the screen,
the log can be displayed (rather tediously) with the command
# more /var/log/syslog
in a shell you can open on VC2 or VC3.

Cheers,
David.

RE: Installation Problem

[Vlad Dragomir]

Hello,

Thank you all for all those great responses, I'm definitely grateful.

Dan, I followed your instructions, please tell me if this is the expected 
output, I'll try to transcribe everything:
Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)

Would you please tell me what to do next?

David,

I found that file too, actually I found four or five of them, but not all. I 
put them on the USB installation drive but the installer kept asking for them. 
I'm sorry, I should have been more precise when I said that Google didn't help 
me much. What I meant was: it only found a few of those files and they were 
ignored by the installer.

Digital thanks to all those who took a moment to write back!

Vlad. 

Re: Installation Problem

[Bob McGowan]

On 7/14/20 1:48 PM, David Christensen wrote:

On 2020-07-14 13:33, Vlad Dragomir wrote:


I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having,


It asks for additional non-free firmware, unfortunately it's an Intel 
wireless card. It gives a list of files it needs in order to configure 
the network, which is I suppose a good start. Still,
1.    I have no idea where to find those files, Google didn’t help me 
much with this.
2.    If I find those files, I don’t know where exactly to paste them 
on the installation drive for it to see them.
3.    This installation iso pretends it contains non-free firmware 
already, so normally it shouldn’t ask for those files. Am I missing 
something?
Therefore, I had to cancel the installation, at least for the time 
being. It would be rather useless to have a system without Internet 
access.


Proprietary Wi-Fi firmware is an unending PITA with FOSS.


I buy laptops with wired Ethernet interfaces to avoid this problem.  I 
then use the wired connection for installation and for installing Wi-Fi 
firmware.



If I needed to install Debian on a laptop without Ethernet, I would buy 
a USB Ethernet adapter.  The key is finding one that is supported by 
FOSS OOTB.  Unfortunately, I do not own one and cannot make a 
recommendation.  (And, these products constantly change.)  I would  STFW 
for mailing list and forum archives for USB WiFi adapaters that are 
known to work with Debian 10.  If you are willing to buy used equipment 
(if only to do the install and firmware for the build-in Wi-Fi), eBay is 
a good source.



David

If you need a USB<->Ethernet dongle, I recently purchased one, through 
Amazon.  It is a Gigabit/USB3.0 dongle that works nicely with Debian.


The manufacturer is "plugable" (plugable.com) and the device is model 
USB3-E1000.


As an aside, for anyone that might be interested, I tested it 
successfully with both a Samsung Galaxy S9 cellphone and a Lenovo Tablet 
TB-8504F, which surprised me a bit.  I've also tested on two other 
Android tablets, where it did not work, so mileage will vary.


Regardless, it works with Debian without a hitch. ;)

Bob

Re: Installation Problem

[David Wright]

On Tue 14 Jul 2020 at 16:59:00 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> Vlad Dragomir wrote: 
> > I am very new to Debian, and would like to apologise first, I might not 
> > know how exactly to describe this issue.
> 
> Everybody starts somewhere.
> 
> 
> > I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, using the iso 
> > downloaded from this torrent:
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.4.0+nonfree/amd64/bt-dvd/firmware-10.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent
> 
> Pretty good choice.
> 
> > It started wonderfully, the installation went smoothly until it tried to 
> > connect to the Internet. It asks for additional non-free firmware, 
> > unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list of files it 
> > needs in order to configure the network, which is I suppose a good start. 
> > Still,
> > 1.  I have no idea where to find those files, Google didn???t help me much 
> > with this.
> > 2.  If I find those files, I don???t know where exactly to paste them on 
> > the installation drive for it to see them.
> > 3.  This installation iso pretends it contains non-free firmware already, 
> > so normally it shouldn???t ask for those files. Am I missing something?
> > Therefore, I had to cancel the installation, at least for the time being. 
> > It would be rather useless to have a system without Internet access. 
> 
> Let's find out which Intel wireless card you have. With the
> installer running, choose "start local shell".
> 
> Then type 
> 
> lspci 
> 
> and look for lines with Network in them. They should start with
> a number like 03.00 or something like that.
> 
> Tell us the output from
> 
> lspci -vv 
> 
> where  is the number from the Network line.

It seems odd that it's asking for such a long list of files.
I assume it would be happy with just one of them, and it's
just giving alternatives in order of preference.

iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-35.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-33.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-32.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-31.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-30.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-29.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-28.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-27.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-26.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-25.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-23.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode

But even my netinst ISO (firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso 394265k Nov 16  2019)
contains the first and last of these:
iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode 2120860 Aug 22  2019
iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode 2486572 Aug 22  2019

BTW googling the filename gave me a link to
https://github.com/wkennington/linux-firmware/blob/master/iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode
as the second hit.

Cheers,
David.

Re: Installation Problem

[Dan Ritter]

Vlad Dragomir wrote: 
> I am very new to Debian, and would like to apologise first, I might not know 
> how exactly to describe this issue.

Everybody starts somewhere.


> I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having, using the iso 
> downloaded from this torrent:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.4.0+nonfree/amd64/bt-dvd/firmware-10.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent

Pretty good choice.

> It started wonderfully, the installation went smoothly until it tried to 
> connect to the Internet. It asks for additional non-free firmware, 
> unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list of files it needs 
> in order to configure the network, which is I suppose a good start. Still,
> 1.I have no idea where to find those files, Google didn???t help me much 
> with this.
> 2.If I find those files, I don???t know where exactly to paste them on 
> the installation drive for it to see them.
> 3.This installation iso pretends it contains non-free firmware already, 
> so normally it shouldn???t ask for those files. Am I missing something?
> Therefore, I had to cancel the installation, at least for the time being. It 
> would be rather useless to have a system without Internet access. 

Let's find out which Intel wireless card you have. With the
installer running, choose "start local shell".

Then type 

lspci 

and look for lines with Network in them. They should start with
a number like 03.00 or something like that.

Tell us the output from

lspci -vv 

where  is the number from the Network line.

-dsr-

Re: Installation Problem

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> If I needed to install Debian on a laptop without Ethernet, I would buy
> a USB Ethernet adapter. The key is finding one that is supported by
> FOSS OOTB.

Take a look at Raspberry Pi sources. RPIs have Enet OOTB, but there are lots of 
USB dongles that work with the Debian software in RPIs. Might give a hint. Or 
maybe even a promise.

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Re: Installation Problem

[David Christensen]

On 2020-07-14 13:33, Vlad Dragomir wrote:


I tried to install Debian on an unused laptop I'm having,



It asks for additional non-free firmware, unfortunately it's an Intel wireless 
card. It gives a list of files it needs in order to configure the network, 
which is I suppose a good start. Still,
1.  I have no idea where to find those files, Google didn’t help me much 
with this.
2.  If I find those files, I don’t know where exactly to paste them on the 
installation drive for it to see them.
3.  This installation iso pretends it contains non-free firmware already, 
so normally it shouldn’t ask for those files. Am I missing something?
Therefore, I had to cancel the installation, at least for the time being. It 
would be rather useless to have a system without Internet access.


Proprietary Wi-Fi firmware is an unending PITA with FOSS.


I buy laptops with wired Ethernet interfaces to avoid this problem.  I 
then use the wired connection for installation and for installing Wi-Fi 
firmware.



If I needed to install Debian on a laptop without Ethernet, I would buy 
a USB Ethernet adapter.  The key is finding one that is supported by 
FOSS OOTB.  Unfortunately, I do not own one and cannot make a 
recommendation.  (And, these products constantly change.)  I would  STFW 
for mailing list and forum archives for USB WiFi adapaters that are 
known to work with Debian 10.  If you are willing to buy used equipment 
(if only to do the install and firmware for the build-in Wi-Fi), eBay is 
a good source.



David

Re: Installation problem

[Felix Miata]

Thomas D Dial composed on 2019-09-14 13:30 (UTC-0600):

> As a first "next step" I suggest the following:

> When you see the "Debian page" - that is the Grub boot menu - press the
> 'e' key. This will present the boot control instructions for the default
> boot into your Linux in a form you can edit using the arrow keys to move
> the cursor, backspace to erase, and normal keys to add things.

> Locate the line beginning "linux." This probably has the word "quiet" at
> or near the end, which prevents display of normal boot messages that do
> not report serious problems; erase it and press control-x or the F10 key
> to continue the boot.

> You should see messages as the system boots and initializes Linux. The
> last of them are likely to provide information about the reason the
> system initialization does not complete. They may be self explanatory,
> but if not, you can post them here and they may help others to provide
> additional assistance.

As a second step, if above seems minimally or un- helpful, after removing quiet,
append a space, then the string

nomodeset

which is primarily a troubleshooting parameter, also for enabling repairs,
explained among other places at:

-- 
Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: Installation problem

[Thomas D Dial]

On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 08:46 +0200, john doe wrote:
> On 9/14/2019 7:36 AM, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote:
> > > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed
> > > properly.
> > > 
> > > What I have done so far is to
> > > 
> > > Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then
> > > 
> > > 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
> > > 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
> > > 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
> > > 4. followed the prompts
> > > 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
> > > 6. reboot
> > > 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
> > > 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small
> > > cursor in the upper left of the screen
> > > 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
> > > 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I
> > > am
> > > up and running again.
> > > 
> > > I have done this three times
> > > 
> > > Twice with the DVD debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> > > and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> > > 
> > > results were the same each time...
> > > 
> > > What am I doing wrong???
> > 
> > You are headed down the path of "dual boot", which is unnecessarily
> > difficult and risks damaging your Windows installation.
> > 
> > 
> > If you have a Windows computer and you want to experiment with GNU/
> > Linux , you are better off installing virtual machine hosting
> > software
> > and downloading a pre-built virtual machine.  Obvious choices
> > include
> > Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation Player:
> > 
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/
> > 
> > https://www.virtualbox.org/
> > 
> > https://www.vmware.com/
> > 
> 
> https://qemu.org
> 
> Given that you didn't crash your system with multiboot and that you
> see
> the prompt to select which OS to choose, I would keep the multiboot
> going.
> 
> Have you turned off fastboot on windows?
> 
> You shouldn't see D on Windows but somespace that Windows can't use.

Welcome to Debian. I suspect your installation, from either of the
sources you mention, is salvageable. And I think the advice here from
john doe is a good continuation point; it appears you have succeeded in
building a very nearly successful Windows/Linux dual boot setup.

As a first "next step" I suggest the following:

When you see the "Debian page" - that is the Grub boot menu - press the
'e' key. This will present the boot control instructions for the default
boot into your Linux in a form you can edit using the arrow keys to move
the cursor, backspace to erase, and normal keys to add things.

Locate the line beginning "linux." This probably has the word "quiet" at
or near the end, which prevents display of normal boot messages that do
not report serious problems; erase it and press control-x or the F10 key
to continue the boot.

You should see messages as the system boots and initializes Linux. The
last of them are likely to provide information about the reason the
system initialization does not complete. They may be self explanatory,
but if not, you can post them here and they may help others to provide
additional assistance.

Regards,
Tom Dial
 
> 
> --
> John Doe

Re: Installation problem

[Esteban L]

What Video card do you have?

I experienced annoyance with AMD video card/driver. If that is the case,
you can search on google, or ask the mailling list again for how to
install the required firmware.

Unfortunately, it is not smooth.

On 14.09.19 01:45, Anne wrote:
>
> Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed
> properly.
>
> What I have done so far is to
>
> Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then
>
> 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
> 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
> 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
> 4. followed the prompts
> 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
> 6. reboot
> 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
> 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small
> cursor in the upper left of the screen
> 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
> 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I am
> up and running again.
>
> I have done this three times
>
> Twice with the DVD  debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>
> results were the same each time...
>
> What am I doing wrong???
>
> Anne
>

Re: Installation problem

[Joe]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 22:36:06 -0700
David Christensen  wrote:

> On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed
> > properly.
> > 
> > What I have done so far is to
> > 
> > Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then
> > 
> > 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
> > 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
> > 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
> > 4. followed the prompts
> > 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
> > 6. reboot
> > 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
> > 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small
> > cursor in the upper left of the screen
> > 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
> > 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I
> > am up and running again.
> > 
> > I have done this three times
> > 
> > Twice with the DVD debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> > and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> > 
> > results were the same each time...
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong???  
> 
> You are headed down the path of "dual boot", which is unnecessarily 
> difficult and risks damaging your Windows installation.
> 

Doesn't have to be. I bought a Win10 netbook last year, with no legacy
BIOS option, and stretch installed on it on a second drive without a
problem. I hadn't actually intended to use it dual-boot, but I found
that the grub menu contained a Windows entry, and it worked easily.

> 
> If you have a Windows computer and you want to experiment with GNU/ 
> Linux , you are better off installing virtual machine hosting
> software and downloading a pre-built virtual machine.  Obvious
> choices include Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware
> Workstation Player:
> 
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/
> 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/
> 
> https://www.vmware.com/

What I'd suggest first is trying a live version of Debian, perhaps
Knoppix https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html and preferably
also straight Debian, to see if there are any hardware issues. Doing a
graphical install does not guarantee that the graphics drivers in the
installed Debian will work, I've had trouble in that area.

-- 
Joe

Re: Installation problem

[john doe]

On 9/14/2019 7:36 AM, David Christensen wrote:
> On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote:
>> Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed
>> properly.
>>
>> What I have done so far is to
>>
>> Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then
>>
>> 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
>> 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
>> 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
>> 4. followed the prompts
>> 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
>> 6. reboot
>> 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
>> 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small
>> cursor in the upper left of the screen
>> 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
>> 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I am
>> up and running again.
>>
>> I have done this three times
>>
>> Twice with the DVD debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>> and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>>
>> results were the same each time...
>>
>> What am I doing wrong???
>
> You are headed down the path of "dual boot", which is unnecessarily
> difficult and risks damaging your Windows installation.
>
>
> If you have a Windows computer and you want to experiment with GNU/
> Linux , you are better off installing virtual machine hosting software
> and downloading a pre-built virtual machine.  Obvious choices include
> Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation Player:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> https://www.vmware.com/
>

https://qemu.org

Given that you didn't crash your system with multiboot and that you see
the prompt to select which OS to choose, I would keep the multiboot going.

Have you turned off fastboot on windows?

You shouldn't see D on Windows but somespace that Windows can't use.

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Re: Installation problem

[Joao Emanuel]

Hi, first sorry for horrible english, well try to turn off secure boot in
bios and try again to install Debian. Or like David suggestion, get
virtualbox or enable hyper-v and install in virtual machine.

Em sex, 13 de set de 2019 às 19:54, Anne  escreveu:

> Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed properly.
>
> What I have done so far is to
>
> Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then
>
> 1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
> 2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
> 3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
> 4. followed the prompts
> 5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
> 6. reboot
> 7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
> 8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small cursor in
> the upper left of the screen
> 9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
> 10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I am up
> and running again.
>
> I have done this three times
>
> Twice with the DVD  debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
>
> results were the same each time...
>
> What am I doing wrong???
>
> Anne
>


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Re: Installation problem

[David Christensen]

On 9/13/19 4:45 PM, Anne wrote:

Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed properly.

What I have done so far is to

Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then

1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
4. followed the prompts
5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system
6. reboot
7. Debian page showed up and I selected the first selection.
8. after a bit of doing things I get a black screen with a small cursor 
in the upper left of the screen

9. a power off or ctrl alt del is required to go further.
10. after reboot I get the Debian screen and select windows and I am up 
and running again.


I have done this three times

Twice with the DVD debian-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
and once with the DVD firmware-10.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

results were the same each time...

What am I doing wrong???


You are headed down the path of "dual boot", which is unnecessarily 
difficult and risks damaging your Windows installation.



If you have a Windows computer and you want to experiment with GNU/ 
Linux , you are better off installing virtual machine hosting software 
and downloading a pre-built virtual machine.  Obvious choices include 
Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation Player:


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/

https://www.virtualbox.org/

https://www.vmware.com/


David

Re: Installation problem

[Kent West]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 6:55 PM Anne  wrote:

Hi, I am new to debian and I can not seem to get the OS installed properly.

What I have done so far is to

Make a free space partition of 100GB on drive D and then

1. download the first DVD of 10.1.0
2. used rufus to put it on a thumb drive
3. Booted from the thumb drive and selected "graphical Install"
4. followed the prompts
5. Program said OS was installed and to reboot the system


During the install, did it repetition your drive, perhaps taking "D" and
reformatting it?

Your reference to "D" makes me think you have a partition that Windows
calls "D:", using an NTFS file system. Debian generally wants an EXT4 file
system, not an NTFS partition. Is drive "D:" missing from Windows after the
install?


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Re: installation problem

[Patrick Bartek]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Moreanu Robert - Nicolae wrote:

> i looking to resolve this problem when I want to install debian 8.2
> or 8.1. I receive this message after it's take to Grub install
> 
> " the 'grub-pc' package failed to install into /target/ "
> after the operation of clean up on installing, i have a failed
> operations.
> 
> I don't have such expertise, please make the debian on install with
> more information and what procedure to do that for the people don't
> have the time to study the debian.
> 
> so.. how i could resolve this problem , any help from you, please
> 
> robert, waiting for your response

Since you lack "expertise," I suggest you find someone who has the
expertise to come to your computer and do your install.  If you want to
gain "expertise" to do it yourself, the links below should get you
started.

   https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
   https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/

B

Re: installation problem

[Dick Thomas]

On Sunday 17 Jan 2016 14:53:19 Moreanu Robert - Nicolae wrote:
> i looking to resolve this problem when I want to install debian 8.2 or 8.1.
> I receive this message after it's take to Grub install
> 
> " the 'grub-pc' package failed to install into /target/ "
> after the operation of clean up on installing, i have a failed operations.
> 
> I don't have such expertise, please make the debian on install with more
> information and what procedure to do that for the people don't have the
> time to study the debian.
> 
> so.. how i could resolve this problem , any help from you, please
> 
> robert, waiting for your response

1st question, Have you done a custom partitioning ?

I ask as I've only seen this error on my installs when I've done a encrypted 
root on and didn't leave a /boot unencrypted 



regards

Dick Thomas

Re: Installation Problem

[Florian Pelgrim]

Hi,

this list is for Debian and not for Kali itself.

But I will make a guess and say eject the ISO from your (virtual) drive. ;)

Cheers
Flo

Am 28.10.15 um 15:56 schrieb Ssov Samoht:
> Hello,
> 
> Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux and it takes me a long 
> time to install it but when its done it just goes back to the starting screen 
> and all i can select it
> 
> Install
> Advanced Options
> Help
> Install with speech synthesis
> 
> Please help me ):
> 



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Re: Installation Problem

[Darac Marjal]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 06:56:51PM +0400, Ssov Samoht wrote:


Hello,

Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux and it takes me 
a long time to install it but when its done it just goes back to the 
starting screen and all i can select it


Install Advanced Options Help Install with speech synthesis

Please help me ):


Hopefully obvious, but have you tried removing/ejecting the installation 
medium during the reboot?



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Re: Installation Problem

[Lisi Reisz]

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 14:56:51 Ssov Samoht wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux

"Debian Kali Linux" doesn't actually exist.  Debian GNU/Linux exists.  Kali 
Linux exists.  Kali Linux is based on Debian (how loosely??).  Debian != 
Kali.

> and it takes me a 
> long time to install it but when its done it just goes back to the starting
> screen and all i can select it
>
> Install
> Advanced Options
> Help
> Install with speech synthesis
>
> Please help me ):

The suggestion that you may not have ejected the install media sounds a good 
one.

Lisi

Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

[Tony Baldwin]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 08:38:14PM +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote:
 
  Thanks a lot!
  I have now successfully installed  Debian with image firmware-6.0.6-amd64-
 i386-netinst.iso and it works fine. I used that because I read that my wifi 
 card 
 needs non free firmware. However the WLAN configuration didn't work. The card 
 was detected but when trying to look for access points it wouldn't find any. 
  I ended up using the ethernet cable, but is it normal that it cannot find 
 any 
 wlan network? The firmware seems to be installed, at least it asked to agree 
 on 
 the license...
  Regards,
  Enrique

I've installed Debian on a Dell d420 and a d620, and the wifi and
everything worked awesome right out of the box, without adding non-free
firmware, even.

weird...
Or maybe just the older hardware doesn't require newer/non-free
firmware?

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Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

[Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo]

 Thanks a lot!
 I have now successfully installed  Debian with image firmware-6.0.6-amd64-
i386-netinst.iso and it works fine. I used that because I read that my wifi 
card 
needs non free firmware. However the WLAN configuration didn't work. The card 
was detected but when trying to look for access points it wouldn't find any. 
 I ended up using the ethernet cable, but is it normal that it cannot find any 
wlan network? The firmware seems to be installed, at least it asked to agree on 
the license...
 Regards,
 Enrique

On Saturday 06 October 2012 14:35:50 Brian wrote:
 On Sat 06 Oct 2012 at 15:02:17 +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote:
   I am trying to install Debian 6.0 on a rather old laptop Latitude D810.
 
 You are not trying hard enough. :)
 
  However it hangs when detecting network hardware using the graphical
  installer.
 
 Please see below.
 
   On the same machine I was able to boot Fedora 17 without problems.
   I have tried also connecting an ethernet cable but it also hangs.
   
The kernel messages on the same machine using kernel 3.5.3 from F17 are:
  [   16.608061] tg3.c:v3.123 (March 21, 2012)
  [   16.617814] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001]
  (PCI Express) MAC address 00:14:22:e2:2d:9a
  [   16.617825] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5750
  (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0])
  [   16.617834] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0]
  ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
  [   16.617842] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[7618]
  dma_mask[64-bit] ...
  [   17.285950] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver,
  1.2.2kmprq
  [   17.285957] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
  [   17.286183] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network
  Connection 
   I am using image debian-wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso.
 
 This is a beta image for Wheezy. What has happened to you is a known bug
 in d-i.
 
   Do you know any way to install it on this laptop?
 
 Use a Squeeze 6.0.5 install image.


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Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

[Brian]

On Sun 07 Oct 2012 at 20:38:14 +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote:

  I have now successfully installed  Debian with image firmware-6.0.6-amd64-
 i386-netinst.iso and it works fine.

Good.

 I used that because I read that my wifi 
 card 
 needs non free firmware. However the WLAN configuration didn't work. The card 
 was detected but when trying to look for access points it wouldn't find any. 
  I ended up using the ethernet cable, but is it normal that it cannot find 
 any 
 wlan network? The firmware seems to be installed, at least it asked to agree 
 on 
 the license...

Only WEP is available when installing Squeeze. Maybe that was the problem.
Wheezy has WPA and makes a good job of setting up a wireless connection.


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Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

[Rob Owens]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 03:02:17PM +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote:
 
 
  Hi,
 
  I am trying to install Debian 6.0 on a rather old laptop Latitude D810. 
 However it hangs when detecting network hardware using the graphical 
 installer.
  On the same machine I was able to boot Fedora 17 without problems.
  I have tried also connecting an ethernet cable but it also hangs.
   The kernel messages on the same machine using kernel 3.5.3 from F17 are:
 
 [   16.608061] tg3.c:v3.123 (March 21, 2012)
 [   16.617814] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001] 
 (PCI 
 Express) MAC address 00:14:22:e2:2d:9a
 [   16.617825] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5750 
 (10/100/1000Base-T 
 Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0])
 [   16.617834] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] 
 ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
 [   16.617842] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[7618] dma_mask[64-bit]
 ...
 [   17.285950] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 
 1.2.2kmprq
 [   17.285957] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
 [   17.286183] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
 
  I am using image debian-wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso.
  
Squeeze is Debian 6.0.  Are you using 6.0 or are you using Wheezy?

I've installed Squeeze on a Dell Latitude 810, using the text installer.
I always had to add 'vga=771' to the boot line, otherwise I got no
display.

-Rob


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Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

[Brian]

On Sat 06 Oct 2012 at 15:02:17 +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote:

  I am trying to install Debian 6.0 on a rather old laptop Latitude D810.

You are not trying hard enough. :)

 However it hangs when detecting network hardware using the graphical 
 installer.

Please see below.

  On the same machine I was able to boot Fedora 17 without problems.
  I have tried also connecting an ethernet cable but it also hangs.
   The kernel messages on the same machine using kernel 3.5.3 from F17 are:
 
 [   16.608061] tg3.c:v3.123 (March 21, 2012)
 [   16.617814] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001] 
 (PCI 
 Express) MAC address 00:14:22:e2:2d:9a
 [   16.617825] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5750 
 (10/100/1000Base-T 
 Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1], EEE[0])
 [   16.617834] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] 
 ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
 [   16.617842] tg3 :02:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[7618] dma_mask[64-bit]
 ...
 [   17.285950] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 
 1.2.2kmprq
 [   17.285957] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
 [   17.286183] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
 
  I am using image debian-wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso.

This is a beta image for Wheezy. What has happened to you is a known bug
in d-i.

  Do you know any way to install it on this laptop?

Use a Squeeze 6.0.5 install image.


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Re: installation problem

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 29 March 2011 14:47:13 lee mary wrote:
 Dear Sir/Madam
 
 I use Debian win32 loader to install Debian 6, everything seem all right,
 then the system reboot, but unfortunately the booting process stop at
 the following point:
 
 waiting for /dev to be fully populated.
 
 Please give me some advice. My box is P4 478 2.0g, 512ram, USB keyboard,
 USB mouse, USB sound card and USB speaker. Display card is nvidia with
 8M ram. and with a 20g SATA harddisk.
 
 Regards,
 MaryLee

Maybe your problem/solution is here:
http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110329a
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Re: installation problem

[Thierry Chatelet]

On Tuesday 29 March 2011 15:33:15 Thierry Chatelet wrote:
 
 Maybe your problem/solution is here:
 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110329a
 Thierry

Ouppp, sorry, did not read your post correctly. Your problem is somewhere 
else
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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Emmanuel Chantry]

Le 14/02/2010 07:26, Alex Samad a écrit :

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
   

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM:

 

I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but
not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;)
   

smart arrays don't turn up as /dev/sda from memory /dev/cciss/c0d0 -
controller zero and disk zero

as for the other problem, lvm writes information onto the hard drives,
which is why you are seeing the error message, I believe there is a way
to tell the partition manager to clear all partitions on the disk to be
installed onto.

I would also stick to lvm on smartarrays, much easier to managing moving
lv's etc


   

Have you tried contacting HP support?  IIRC, they support Debian.

 
I'm not surprised that is a difference beetween VMs and real hardware. 
HP servers runs with CCISS driver not with standard sda I know that.
I've tried to join HP support. First time, they said they don't support 
Debian lol. I have to send us their website URL to prove them they're 
supporting Debian...

I'm waiting for an answer from the support if they know that problem.

It seems that in amd64 and HP servers, install steps are not in the same 
order. In fact The cciss is loaded just before partman starts 
(installing scsci-modules and scsi-extra-modules) not at kernel boot.


In preseed file, the line:  d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean 
true tells that old LVM configuration have to be erased without 
prompting. But it doesn't work on my HP server.


Emmanuel


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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:56:41AM +0100, Emmanuel Chantry wrote:
 Le 14/02/2010 07:26, Alex Samad a écrit :
 On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
 Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM:

[snip]

 
 I'm not surprised that is a difference beetween VMs and real
 hardware. HP servers runs with CCISS driver not with standard sda I
 know that.
 I've tried to join HP support. First time, they said they don't
 support Debian lol. I have to send us their website URL to prove
 them they're supporting Debian...
 I'm waiting for an answer from the support if they know that problem.
 
 It seems that in amd64 and HP servers, install steps are not in the
 same order. In fact The cciss is loaded just before partman starts
 (installing scsci-modules and scsi-extra-modules) not at kernel
 boot.
 
 In preseed file, the line:  d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm
 boolean true tells that old LVM configuration have to be erased
 without prompting. But it doesn't work on my HP server.

Hi

I have done quite a few installs on DL360, Dl785's, but all manual not
with pre seed. So I can tell you it works okay - the problem is with the
installer.


 
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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Emmanuel Chantry]

Le 12/02/2010 23:25, Michael Mohn a écrit :

Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry:

   

Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
 

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:

   

Hi,

I've  tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server.
I have a RAID 5 smart array configured.
I use auto install with preseed. My partition are created through LVMs.

The first time I install Debian, everything is ok.
But when I try to install again over the existing installation with the
same preseed configuration, I have an error message : Volume group name
already in use with a continue/go back.
If I choose continue, I have another error message No root filesystem
found.

Anyone else has had this error ? Is there a solution for that problem ?

 

The first thing you should ask yourself, and should tell us, is why are you
reinstalling over a fresh installation?  That right there is odd behavior.

Is there actually something you want to accomplish with this Proliant server, or
do you just enjoy playing with the Debian installer?

Another question:  You already have the SmartArray controller presenting you
with a single large block device.  Why are you even using LVM?  Is there
something you are trying to accomplish that can't be accomplished by slicing
that big block up with good 'ol primary and logical partitions?  Do you *need*
LVM or are you using it because it's *neat*?


   

I've reinstalling over a fresh installation because if one day I have to 
reinstall OS for some reason I will install over an existing one.
I must validate the HP server for my company, we have many software under Linux 
we're currently using. I try to establish a procedure as simple as possible 
with minimal handling for our technicians.

LVM is used to allow me to extend a volume if needed for example if I must 
store a lot of data and my volume and I haven't  enough space.

We have many different HP servers with 3, 4, 6 disks, but sometimes we don't 
mount all the disk in the active RAID, there are spares for extending LVM 
volumes.
 



you should add a preinstall script, that deletes all partitions, i think.
that way, there is a defined state to start the installation.

bye,

Michael.


   

I've tried to use a preinstall script with :

d-i preseed/early_command string \
wget http://indus.mydomain/remove_parts.sh -O 
/tmp/remove_parts.sh; sh /tmp/remove_parts.sh


My script is like that :

#!/bin/sh

DISK='/dev/sda'
VG='debian'

echo Installing required software utilities
anna-install parted-udeb
anna-install lvm2-udeb

modprobe dm-mod
modprobe md-mod

# Remove each partition
echo Removing existing partitions on disk $DISK

vgremove -f VG

for v_partition in $(parted -s $DISK print | grep ^  | tr -s ' ' | cut 
-d ' ' -f2)

do
   parted -s $DISK rm ${v_partition}
done

echo All partitions removed

This method works on a virtual machine without problems. But when I try 
this on my HP server it fails. My install is in amd64 not i386.
I've watched the steps of install in the debug console and it seems that 
in amd64, installation steps are not in the same order.


In i386 my anna-install command for udeb packages is done but in amd64 
is queued for later install, and my script fails.


Any idea ?

Emmanuel


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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Michael Mohn]

Am 13.02.2010 um 13:24:26 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry:

 Le 12/02/2010 23:25, Michael Mohn a écrit :
 Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry:
 
   
 Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
 
 Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:
 
   
 Hi,
 
 I've  tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server.
 I have a RAID 5 smart array configured.
 I use auto install with preseed. My partition are created through LVMs.
 
 The first time I install Debian, everything is ok.
 But when I try to install again over the existing installation with the
 same preseed configuration, I have an error message : Volume group name
 already in use with a continue/go back.
 If I choose continue, I have another error message No root filesystem
 found.
 
 Anyone else has had this error ? Is there a solution for that problem ?
 
 
 The first thing you should ask yourself, and should tell us, is why are you
 reinstalling over a fresh installation?  That right there is odd behavior.
 
 Is there actually something you want to accomplish with this Proliant 
 server, or
 do you just enjoy playing with the Debian installer?
 
 Another question:  You already have the SmartArray controller presenting 
 you
 with a single large block device.  Why are you even using LVM?  Is there
 something you are trying to accomplish that can't be accomplished by 
 slicing
 that big block up with good 'ol primary and logical partitions?  Do you 
 *need*
 LVM or are you using it because it's *neat*?
 
 
   
 I've reinstalling over a fresh installation because if one day I have to 
 reinstall OS for some reason I will install over an existing one.
 I must validate the HP server for my company, we have many software under 
 Linux we're currently using. I try to establish a procedure as simple as 
 possible with minimal handling for our technicians.
 
 LVM is used to allow me to extend a volume if needed for example if I must 
 store a lot of data and my volume and I haven't  enough space.
 
 We have many different HP servers with 3, 4, 6 disks, but sometimes we 
 don't mount all the disk in the active RAID, there are spares for extending 
 LVM volumes.
 
 
 
 you should add a preinstall script, that deletes all partitions, i think.
 that way, there is a defined state to start the installation.
 
 bye,
 
 Michael.
 
 
   
 I've tried to use a preinstall script with :
 
 d-i preseed/early_command string \
wget http://indus.mydomain/remove_parts.sh -O /tmp/remove_parts.sh; sh 
 /tmp/remove_parts.sh
 
 My script is like that :
 
 #!/bin/sh
 
 DISK='/dev/sda'
 VG='debian'
 
 echo Installing required software utilities
 anna-install parted-udeb
 anna-install lvm2-udeb
 
 modprobe dm-mod
 modprobe md-mod
 
 # Remove each partition
 echo Removing existing partitions on disk $DISK
 
 vgremove -f VG
 
 for v_partition in $(parted -s $DISK print | grep ^  | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' 
 ' -f2)
 do
   parted -s $DISK rm ${v_partition}
 done
 
 echo All partitions removed
 
 This method works on a virtual machine without problems. But when I try this 
 on my HP server it fails. My install is in amd64 not i386.
 I've watched the steps of install in the debug console and it seems that in 
 amd64, installation steps are not in the same order.
 
 In i386 my anna-install command for udeb packages is done but in amd64 is 
 queued for later install, and my script fails.
 
 Any idea ?
 


google told me this:

### Partitioning
# If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.
#d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free

# Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must
# be given in traditional non-devfs format.
# Note: A disk must be specified, unless the system has only one disk.
# For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:
#d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
# In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use.
# The presently available methods are: regular, lvm and crypto
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm

# If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned
# contains an old LVM configuration, the user will normally receive a
# warning. This can be preseeded away...
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
# The same applies to pre-existing software RAID array:
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
# And the same goes for the confirmation to write the lvm partitions.
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true

# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:
# - atomic: all files in one partition
# - home:   separate /home partition
# - multi:  separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic

# Or provide a recipe of your own...
# The recipe format is documented in the file devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt.
# If you have a way to get a recipe file into the d-i environment, you can
# just point at it.
#d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe_file string 

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Emmanuel Chantry]

Le 13/02/2010 13:36, Michael Mohn a écrit :


Am 13.02.2010 um 13:24:26 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry:


Le 12/02/2010 23:25, Michael Mohn a écrit :

Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry:



Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :


Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:



Hi,

I've  tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server.
I have a RAID 5 smart array configured.
I use auto install with preseed. My partition are created through 
LVMs.


The first time I install Debian, everything is ok.
But when I try to install again over the existing installation 
with the
same preseed configuration, I have an error message : Volume 
group name

already in use with a continue/go back.
If I choose continue, I have another error message No root 
filesystem

found.

Anyone else has had this error ? Is there a solution for that 
problem ?



The first thing you should ask yourself, and should tell us, is 
why are you
reinstalling over a fresh installation?  That right there is odd 
behavior.


Is there actually something you want to accomplish with this 
Proliant server, or

do you just enjoy playing with the Debian installer?

Another question:  You already have the SmartArray controller 
presenting you
with a single large block device.  Why are you even using LVM?  Is 
there
something you are trying to accomplish that can't be accomplished 
by slicing
that big block up with good 'ol primary and logical partitions? 
 Do you *need*

LVM or are you using it because it's *neat*?



I've reinstalling over a fresh installation because if one day I 
have to reinstall OS for some reason I will install over an 
existing one.
I must validate the HP server for my company, we have many software 
under Linux we're currently using. I try to establish a procedure 
as simple as possible with minimal handling for our technicians.


LVM is used to allow me to extend a volume if needed for example if 
I must store a lot of data and my volume and I haven't  enough space.


We have many different HP servers with 3, 4, 6 disks, but sometimes 
we don't mount all the disk in the active RAID, there are spares 
for extending LVM volumes.





you should add a preinstall script, that deletes all partitions, i 
think.

that way, there is a defined state to start the installation.

bye,

Michael.




I've tried to use a preinstall script with :

d-i preseed/early_command string \
   wget http://indus.mydomain/remove_parts.sh -O 
/tmp/remove_parts.sh; sh /tmp/remove_parts.sh


My script is like that :

#!/bin/sh

DISK='/dev/sda'
VG='debian'

echo Installing required software utilities
anna-install parted-udeb
anna-install lvm2-udeb

modprobe dm-mod
modprobe md-mod

# Remove each partition
echo Removing existing partitions on disk $DISK

vgremove -f VG

for v_partition in $(parted -s $DISK print | grep ^  | tr -s ' ' | 
cut -d ' ' -f2)

do
  parted -s $DISK rm ${v_partition}
done

echo All partitions removed

This method works on a virtual machine without problems. But when I 
try this on my HP server it fails. My install is in amd64 not i386.
I've watched the steps of install in the debug console and it seems 
that in amd64, installation steps are not in the same order.


In i386 my anna-install command for udeb packages is done but in 
amd64 is queued for later install, and my script fails.


Any idea ?




google told me this:

### Partitioning
# If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space.
#d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free

# Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition. The device name must
# be given in traditional non-devfs format.
# Note: A disk must be specified, unless the system has only one disk.
# For example, to use the first SCSI/SATA hard disk:
#d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
# In addition, you'll need to specify the method to use.
# The presently available methods are: regular, lvm and crypto
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm

# If one of the disks that are going to be automatically partitioned
# contains an old LVM configuration, the user will normally receive a
# warning. This can be preseeded away...
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
# The same applies to pre-existing software RAID array:
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
# And the same goes for the confirmation to write the lvm partitions.
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true

# You can choose one of the three predefined partitioning recipes:
# - atomic: all files in one partition
# - home:   separate /home partition
# - multi:  separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic

# Or provide a recipe of your own...
# The recipe format is documented in the file devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt.
# If you have a way to get a recipe file into the d-i environment, you can
# just point at it.
#d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe_file string /hd-media/recipe
   


that could be worth a try ;)


bye,

Michael.

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Stan Hoeppner]

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:24 AM:

 This method works on a virtual machine without problems. But when I try

I'm not at all familiar with preseed.  What I can tell you is that VM guests
typically deal with abstracted phantom hardware because the virtual machine
itself is a phantom.  That's the whole point.  Guests never see the real
hardware, or BIOS, or etc, except in the case of paravirtualization, but afaik,
those guests still don't see the real hardware picture, only parts of it,
specifically device drivers.

Testing OS installs, partitioning, etc, is not something you ever want to be
doing in a virtual machine environment as the results will always be different
than on real bare metal hardware.

The whole point of virtualization is abstracting the underlying hardware from
the guest operating system.

And yet, you are surprised by the results?

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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Stan Hoeppner]

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM:

 I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but
 not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;)

Have you tried contacting HP support?  IIRC, they support Debian.

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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
 Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM:
 
  I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but
  not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;)

smart arrays don't turn up as /dev/sda from memory /dev/cciss/c0d0 -
controller zero and disk zero

as for the other problem, lvm writes information onto the hard drives,
which is why you are seeing the error message, I believe there is a way
to tell the partition manager to clear all partitions on the disk to be
installed onto.

I would also stick to lvm on smartarrays, much easier to managing moving
lv's etc


 
 Have you tried contacting HP support?  IIRC, they support Debian.
 

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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Stan Hoeppner]

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:
 Hi,
 
 I've  tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server.
 I have a RAID 5 smart array configured.
 I use auto install with preseed. My partition are created through LVMs.
 
 The first time I install Debian, everything is ok.
 But when I try to install again over the existing installation with the
 same preseed configuration, I have an error message : Volume group name
 already in use with a continue/go back.
 If I choose continue, I have another error message No root filesystem
 found.
 
 Anyone else has had this error ? Is there a solution for that problem ?

The first thing you should ask yourself, and should tell us, is why are you
reinstalling over a fresh installation?  That right there is odd behavior.

Is there actually something you want to accomplish with this Proliant server, or
do you just enjoy playing with the Debian installer?

Another question:  You already have the SmartArray controller presenting you
with a single large block device.  Why are you even using LVM?  Is there
something you are trying to accomplish that can't be accomplished by slicing
that big block up with good 'ol primary and logical partitions?  Do you *need*
LVM or are you using it because it's *neat*?

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Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Emmanuel Chantry]

Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :

Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:
   

Hi,

I've  tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server.
I have a RAID 5 smart array configured.
I use auto install with preseed. My partition are created through LVMs.

The first time I install Debian, everything is ok.
But when I try to install again over the existing installation with the
same preseed configuration, I have an error message : Volume group name
already in use with a continue/go back.
If I choose continue, I have another error message No root filesystem
found.

Anyone else has had this error ? Is there a solution for that problem ?
 

The first thing you should ask yourself, and should tell us, is why are you
reinstalling over a fresh installation?  That right there is odd behavior.

Is there actually something you want to accomplish with this Proliant server, or
do you just enjoy playing with the Debian installer?

Another question:  You already have the SmartArray controller presenting you
with a single large block device.  Why are you even using LVM?  Is there
something you are trying to accomplish that can't be accomplished by slicing
that big block up with good 'ol primary and logical partitions?  Do you *need*
LVM or are you using it because it's *neat*?

   


I've reinstalling over a fresh installation because if one day I have to 
reinstall OS for some reason I will install over an existing one.
I must validate the HP server for my company, we have many software 
under Linux we're currently using. I try to establish a procedure as 
simple as possible with minimal handling for our technicians.


LVM is used to allow me to extend a volume if needed for example if I 
must store a lot of data and my volume and I haven't  enough space.


We have many different HP servers with 3, 4, 6 disks, but sometimes we 
don't mount all the disk in the active RAID, there are spares for 
extending LVM volumes.

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

[Michael Mohn]

Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry:

 Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
 
 Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:
   
 Hi,
 
 I've  tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server.
 I have a RAID 5 smart array configured.
 I use auto install with preseed. My partition are created through LVMs.
 
 The first time I install Debian, everything is ok.
 But when I try to install again over the existing installation with the
 same preseed configuration, I have an error message : Volume group name
 already in use with a continue/go back.
 If I choose continue, I have another error message No root filesystem
 found.
 
 Anyone else has had this error ? Is there a solution for that problem ?
 
 The first thing you should ask yourself, and should tell us, is why are you
 reinstalling over a fresh installation?  That right there is odd behavior.
 
 Is there actually something you want to accomplish with this Proliant 
 server, or
 do you just enjoy playing with the Debian installer?
 
 Another question:  You already have the SmartArray controller presenting you
 with a single large block device.  Why are you even using LVM?  Is there
 something you are trying to accomplish that can't be accomplished by slicing
 that big block up with good 'ol primary and logical partitions?  Do you 
 *need*
 LVM or are you using it because it's *neat*?
 
   
 
 I've reinstalling over a fresh installation because if one day I have to 
 reinstall OS for some reason I will install over an existing one.
 I must validate the HP server for my company, we have many software under 
 Linux we're currently using. I try to establish a procedure as simple as 
 possible with minimal handling for our technicians.
 
 LVM is used to allow me to extend a volume if needed for example if I must 
 store a lot of data and my volume and I haven't  enough space.
 
 We have many different HP servers with 3, 4, 6 disks, but sometimes we don't 
 mount all the disk in the active RAID, there are spares for extending LVM 
 volumes.



you should add a preinstall script, that deletes all partitions, i think.
that way, there is a defined state to start the installation.

bye,

Michael.


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Re: Installation Problem

[Amit Uttamchandani]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:07:14 +
frank asabere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Good day sir
 Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, postgresql, php4
 libapache-mod-perl.
 since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds .
 Please help me out
 

just do the following:

sudo apt-get install apache postgresql php4 libapache-mod-perl

That's the beauty and simplicity of debian in one line for you. 

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Re: Installation Problem

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Hi Amit! Hi Frank!

Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
 frank asabere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 [...] Could you plesae help to install packages like apache,
 postgresql, php4 libapache-mod-perl.
 since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds . [...]

 just do the following:
 sudo apt-get install apache postgresql php4 libapache-mod-perl

sudo isn't installed/configured by default.

Frank: You can become root by executing `su` and entering the root-
password. Then, all you have to do is executing

  apt-get install apache postgresql php4 libapache-mod-perl

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Re: Installation Problem

[Marcello Barreto de Medeiros]

Hello Frank, hello Amit,
i think the better way is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, and 
modify, if necessary, because you have to use the newest packages from updated 
mirrors.

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:28:27 -0700
Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:07:14 +
 frank asabere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Good day sir
  Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, postgresql, php4
  libapache-mod-perl.
  since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds .
  Please help me out
  
 
 just do the following:
 
 sudo apt-get install apache postgresql php4 libapache-mod-perl
 
 That's the beauty and simplicity of debian in one line for you. 
 


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Re: Installation Problem

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On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:15:27PM -0300, Marcello Barreto de Medeiros wrote:
 Hello Frank, hello Amit,
   i think the better way is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, and
   modify, if necessary, because you have to use the newest
   packages from updated mirrors.
The OP said he had Sarge cd, yes. It is good to point out that there is
a more recent stable release of Debian. But if the users has the cds and
the machine does not have internet access (as some small percentage of
users), then that may not be an option or what he wants. So, lets ask
him: Do you want to use your Sarge CDs (3.1)? do you want to use the
most recent stable version(Etch)? Does the machine have internet access?
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Re: Installation problem using iso dump on harddisk

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:16:26PM +0530, Rajesh wrote:
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 Sir,
 
 I cann't able to install debian 4.0 iso image with the help of Grub.

Read the installation manual in your language of choice then complete
and submit an installation report according to the instructions in the
manual.  Subscribe to the bug number that is mailed to you and you will
get excellent support from the debian-boot people.

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Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

[Charles Blair]

   [This is a follow-up to previous post, attempting to supply
more details.]

   I am trying to install debian on a recently purchased HP machine,
with Windows XP pre-installed.  An unsucessful attempt to install the
stable distribution leads me to believe this has a SATA hard-disk.

   I downloaded the weekly build CD-image from testing on March 1,
and booted it.  The first few steps (hard disk partition, etc) seemed
to go all right.  Then I tried to install the base system.  When asked
to choose a kernel, I chose the default  linux-image-2.6-486.

   Shortly afterward I got the message

 An error was returned while trying to install the
 initramfs-tools package
 
 Check /bar/log/syslog or virtual console 4

When I typed control-alt-Fr, I got in part:

 apt-install: Setting up busybox (1.1.3-4)
 apt-install: Setting up libklibc (1.4.34-1)
 apt-install: Seting up klibc-utils (1.4.34-1)
 apt-install: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85e)
 apt-install: 
 apt-install: Errors were encountered while processing:
 apt-install:  console-tools
 apt-install:  console-common
 apt-install: E:
 apt-install: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code()
 apt-install: 
 base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/kernel/
  filed-package-install

   I'm not sure, but my monitor may be losing the last character
of long lines, so that the message may refer to failed-package-
install, and there may be a number for the error-code.

   Thanks for any help.


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Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

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Charles Blair wrote:
I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a
 recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk
 that the sarge installer doesn't recognize).
 
I downloaded the first CD image and booted the installer.
 The partitioning and other steps seemed to be all right.  During
 the base install:
 
 (1) I was asked to pick a kernel, and chose the default
  linux-image-2.6-486
 
 (2) Various successful install messages were displayed
 until it said there was a problem with initramfs-tools.
 I was referred to console #4, which displayed in part:
 
 Errors were encountered while processing:
console-tools
console-common

subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code ()
 
I hope there's a quick fix.  I could not get the installer to
 continue past this error message.
 
 
Why don't you try etch instead?  It has better hardware recognition and
works much better than sarge on newer computers.
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Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

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Joe Hart wrote:
 Charles Blair wrote:
I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a
 recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk
 that the sarge installer doesn't recognize).
 
I downloaded the first CD image and booted the installer.
 The partitioning and other steps seemed to be all right.  During
 the base install:
 
 (1) I was asked to pick a kernel, and chose the default
  linux-image-2.6-486
 
 (2) Various successful install messages were displayed
 until it said there was a problem with initramfs-tools.
 I was referred to console #4, which displayed in part:
 
 Errors were encountered while processing:
console-tools
console-common

subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code ()
I hope there's a quick fix.  I could not get the installer to
 continue past this error message.
 
 
 Why don't you try etch instead?  It has better hardware recognition and
 works much better than sarge on newer computers.

It would help if I learned to read.

Which version of the installer are you using?
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Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:52:57PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
 Joe Hart wrote:
  Charles Blair wrote:
 I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a
  recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk
  that the sarge installer doesn't recognize).
  
 I downloaded the first CD image and booted the installer.
  The partitioning and other steps seemed to be all right.  During
  the base install:
  
  (1) I was asked to pick a kernel, and chose the default
   linux-image-2.6-486
  
  (2) Various successful install messages were displayed
  until it said there was a problem with initramfs-tools.
  I was referred to console #4, which displayed in part:
  
  Errors were encountered while processing:
 console-tools
 console-common

you know, this error doesn't correlate with the initramfs-tools
errors. Did you find errors that mention initramsfs-tools? I think the
console installs can probabnyl be worked aroudn pretty easily, but the
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Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

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Charles Blair wrote:

 As for your problem, it seems rather strange, but it could be the buggy
 version that you have.  You might want to get the etch daily build,
 which you can find at www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

 Get one of the net install CD's
  
I used a weekly build of testing, as of a few days ago.
 Net install is no help, since this particular machine doesn't have
 a network connection yet.
 
 

I think the weekly builds are still a bit flaky, but I don't know for
sure.  I'll put this back on the list and see what the experts have to say.

Joe
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Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found

[Marcus Blumhagen]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA 
 hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message:
 
   No partitionable media found

Hello Ogya,

I guess your problem is caused by the lack of support for your SATA
chipset since the installer and kernel for Sarge are feature wise about
2 years old.

Maybe this website will provide you with some more helpful information:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Regards
Marcus


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Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found

[Douglas Allan Tutty]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA 
 hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error message:
 
   No partitionable media found
 
 What could be the problem and what am I missing? Any pointers on how to 
 resolve this problem will be very much appreciated.

The problem is likely that Sarge is too old for your SATA.  Try Etch.

Doug.


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Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found

[Ogya Chief]

From: Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:37:04 -0500

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:13:11PM +0200, Ogya Chief wrote:
 Hi All,

 I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB SATA
 hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error 
message:


   No partitionable media found

 What could be the problem and what am I missing? Any pointers on how to
 resolve this problem will be very much appreciated.

The problem is likely that Sarge is too old for your SATA.  Try Etch.

Doug.



Thanks Doug, Marcus and the others who have responded to my mail. I will get 
Etch and try again.


Kind regards,
Ogya

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Re: Installation problem: No partitionable media found

[Michael Pobega]

Ogya Chief wrote:

Hi All,

I wanted to install Debian Sarge on a new P4 machine with a 160 GB 
SATA hard disk drive. The installation failed with the following error 
message:


  No partitionable media found

What could be the problem and what am I missing? Any pointers on how 
to resolve this problem will be very much appreciated.


Kind regards
Ogya

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Your best bet would be to try Debian Etch. I'm using Etch on my SATA 
hard drive and it works like a charm. You can get one of the many Debian 
Etch installers from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/



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Re: Installation problem

[Douglas Tutty]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:01:41PM +0800, Wei-Min Gu wrote:
 With a Debian CD, which was made from debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso,
 I tried to install Debian GNU/Linux on my new PC but failed.
 
 The installation was stopped since No partitionable media were found.
 It shows as the following:
 
 No partitionable media were found.
 Please check that a hard disk is attached to this machine.
 
 However, my hard disk (IDE) is all right since I can install a
 RedHat system through hard disk method (the same problem if
 through CD-ROM). I guess that my mainboard of Intel 945GZ
 is not well supported by the current version?
 
 So my question is how can I install Debian on this PC? If there
 is no way to install from CD-ROM, can I do it through hard disk
 method?
 
 
Hi Wei-Min,

I don't know why you're having a problem since I don't know anything
about your hardware.  It seems that since you can't install from CDROM
on redhat either that its not a debian-specific problem.  So I'll focus
on the work around.  

First, have you a copy of the installation manual for reference?

Did you submit a (failed) installation report and subscribe to the
debian-boot mailing list?

Can you boot a USB stick?  If so, you can make a hd-media USB stick and
install from that (see the installation manual).

Have you tried an Etch daily build?  You may find that the problem has
been fixed already.

Can you get far enough in the install to get a shell on F2?  Can you run
cfdisk on the IDE drive?  Do you have anything at all that can boot and
give you a partitioner?

If so, you can create a small partition (I prefer at the end of
the drive) just big enough to hold the hd-media and the
netinst.iso.

Now you need to boot that.  If you have a floppy disk, you could
use a grub-disk.  The grub-disk package includes an image of a
floppy disk that gives you a default menu.lst but you can also
access the grub command line.  If you don't have another linux
box there may be a way to unpack the deb manually and get that
image, then use the rawwrite programme from the CD to make the
disk.

You would then follow along the instructions in the installation
manual.


If none of this works, let us know what you do have that will boot and
find the drive.

Good luck,

Doug.


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Re: Installation problem

[Colin]

Wei-Min Gu wrote:
 With a Debian CD, which was made from debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso,
 I tried to install Debian GNU/Linux on my new PC but failed.
 
 The installation was stopped since No partitionable media were found.
 It shows as the following:
 
 No partitionable media were found.
 Please check that a hard disk is attached to this machine.

The Intel 9xx chipset was first supported on the 2.6.9 kernel.  However,
Debian 3.1 boots with the 2.4.27 kernel by default and 2.6.8 kernel with
the linux26 boot option.

You have two choices: either use the Debian 4.0 (etch) Release Candidate
1 CD (recommended) or a sarge CD that boots with the 2.6.18 kernel.

Debian 4.0 RC 1:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Sarge 2.6.18:
http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2618.htm


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Re: Installation Problem

[Andrei Popescu]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 
 Hello,
 
 I have trouble installing lates Debian release 31R3 - i386  onto 
 NVidia6100+AMD 
 ATHLON64+512MB DDR2 + HDD SATA2.
 Debian installation procedure doesn't recognize  LAN,SATA controller and  HDD.
 With Ferora Core 5 I had no problems at all.
 I hecked on Nvidia site they say drivers are integrated in distribution. 
 
 Please, give me some advice, I'd like to use Debian.
 
 Regards,
 
 Tanyo Tanev

AFAIC the default install runs with kernel 2.4. Riht after you boot
from CD type linux26 to use the 2.6 kernel. This might help with (at
least some of) your troubles. If this doesn't help you need to supply
more info.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: installation problem with SATA?

[Owen Heisler]

On 8/1/06, Deephay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Through Gentoo wiki I found that it is a problem caused by the
SouthBridge chipset VIA VT8237A, and Gentoo provided a solution.
Anybody successfully installed debian with VT8237 SATA?


Most likely this doesn't apply (if I remember correctly what your
problem is), but some of the VIA chipsets (that only do SATA150) have
a problem with SATA 3.0Gb/s drives; speed negotiation doesn't work.
In order to get around this you have to use an extra jumper to set the
drive to SATA150.


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Re: installation problem with SATA?

[Miles Fidelman]

Ran into that one myself.  Turns out the quick fix is to select the 2.6 
kernel, and all works just fine.  Use Linux26 our Expert26 at the 
installer's initial boot prompt.


Miles Fidelman

Deephay wrote:

Greetings all,

Currently I got a computer with a SATA hard drive (seagate
ST3160811AS). I download a AMD64 sarge image and try to install debian
on it, but it said something like no partion media found, some
google works hint me it may be a problem with SATA drive, so I grabbed
a new Etch AMD64 image to have a look, and yes, there is no such error
message like no partion media found, instead, when it is the time to
manually set the partition table, the installer did not list my
current partitions at all (although there are 4 NTFS partions), this
is the exact form:

Guided partitioning
Help on partitioning


Undo changes to partioning
Finish partitioning and write to disk

Some discussions said that if you set your SATA to PATA from BIOS, the
installer will recognize the drive, but after a few minutes search, I
think my BIOS does not have that option.
Any suggetion or solution is appreciated very much!

PS: the motherboard of the computer is ASUS P5VDC-X (NorthBridge VIA
PT880ultra, SouthBridge VIA VT8237A).
and my knoppix liveCD seems did not recognize the drive either.

TIA,
Deephay





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Re: installation problem with SATA?

[Deephay]

Hi, in my case linux26 doesn't work

On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Ran into that one myself.  Turns out the quick fix is to select the 2.6
kernel, and all works just fine.  Use Linux26 our Expert26 at the
installer's initial boot prompt.

Miles Fidelman

Deephay wrote:
 Greetings all,

 Currently I got a computer with a SATA hard drive (seagate
 ST3160811AS). I download a AMD64 sarge image and try to install debian
 on it, but it said something like no partion media found, some
 google works hint me it may be a problem with SATA drive, so I grabbed
 a new Etch AMD64 image to have a look, and yes, there is no such error
 message like no partion media found, instead, when it is the time to
 manually set the partition table, the installer did not list my
 current partitions at all (although there are 4 NTFS partions), this
 is the exact form:

 Guided partitioning
 Help on partitioning


 Undo changes to partioning
 Finish partitioning and write to disk

 Some discussions said that if you set your SATA to PATA from BIOS, the
 installer will recognize the drive, but after a few minutes search, I
 think my BIOS does not have that option.
 Any suggetion or solution is appreciated very much!

 PS: the motherboard of the computer is ASUS P5VDC-X (NorthBridge VIA
 PT880ultra, SouthBridge VIA VT8237A).
 and my knoppix liveCD seems did not recognize the drive either.

 TIA,
 Deephay







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Re: installation problem with SATA?

[Miles Fidelman]

You might want to contact ASUS tech. support to see if there are any new 
drivers or BIOS updates.


Deephay wrote:

Hi, in my case linux26 doesn't work

On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Ran into that one myself.  Turns out the quick fix is to select the 2.6
kernel, and all works just fine.  Use Linux26 our Expert26 at the
installer's initial boot prompt.

Miles Fidelman

Deephay wrote:
 Greetings all,

 Currently I got a computer with a SATA hard drive (seagate
 ST3160811AS). I download a AMD64 sarge image and try to install debian
 on it, but it said something like no partion media found, some
 google works hint me it may be a problem with SATA drive, so I grabbed
 a new Etch AMD64 image to have a look, and yes, there is no such error
 message like no partion media found, instead, when it is the time to
 manually set the partition table, the installer did not list my
 current partitions at all (although there are 4 NTFS partions), this
 is the exact form:

 Guided partitioning
 Help on partitioning


 Undo changes to partioning
 Finish partitioning and write to disk

 Some discussions said that if you set your SATA to PATA from BIOS, the
 installer will recognize the drive, but after a few minutes search, I
 think my BIOS does not have that option.
 Any suggetion or solution is appreciated very much!

 PS: the motherboard of the computer is ASUS P5VDC-X (NorthBridge VIA
 PT880ultra, SouthBridge VIA VT8237A).
 and my knoppix liveCD seems did not recognize the drive either.

 TIA,
 Deephay










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Re: installation problem with SATA?

[Deephay]

sigh, there's no new BIOS updates available

On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

You might want to contact ASUS tech. support to see if there are any new
drivers or BIOS updates.

Deephay wrote:
 Hi, in my case linux26 doesn't work

 On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ran into that one myself.  Turns out the quick fix is to select the 2.6
 kernel, and all works just fine.  Use Linux26 our Expert26 at the
 installer's initial boot prompt.

 Miles Fidelman

 Deephay wrote:
  Greetings all,
 
  Currently I got a computer with a SATA hard drive (seagate
  ST3160811AS). I download a AMD64 sarge image and try to install debian
  on it, but it said something like no partion media found, some
  google works hint me it may be a problem with SATA drive, so I grabbed
  a new Etch AMD64 image to have a look, and yes, there is no such error
  message like no partion media found, instead, when it is the time to
  manually set the partition table, the installer did not list my
  current partitions at all (although there are 4 NTFS partions), this
  is the exact form:
 
  Guided partitioning
  Help on partitioning
 
 
  Undo changes to partioning
  Finish partitioning and write to disk
 
  Some discussions said that if you set your SATA to PATA from BIOS, the
  installer will recognize the drive, but after a few minutes search, I
  think my BIOS does not have that option.
  Any suggetion or solution is appreciated very much!
 
  PS: the motherboard of the computer is ASUS P5VDC-X (NorthBridge VIA
  PT880ultra, SouthBridge VIA VT8237A).
  and my knoppix liveCD seems did not recognize the drive either.
 
  TIA,
  Deephay
 
 









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Re: installation problem with SATA?

[Deephay]

Hi all,

Through Gentoo wiki I found that it is a problem caused by the
SouthBridge chipset VIA VT8237A, and Gentoo provided a solution.
Anybody successfully installed debian with VT8237 SATA?

Deephay

On 8/2/06, Deephay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

sigh, there's no new BIOS updates available

On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 You might want to contact ASUS tech. support to see if there are any new
 drivers or BIOS updates.

 Deephay wrote:
  Hi, in my case linux26 doesn't work
 
  On 8/2/06, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Ran into that one myself.  Turns out the quick fix is to select the 2.6
  kernel, and all works just fine.  Use Linux26 our Expert26 at the
  installer's initial boot prompt.
 
  Miles Fidelman
 
  Deephay wrote:
   Greetings all,
  
   Currently I got a computer with a SATA hard drive (seagate
   ST3160811AS). I download a AMD64 sarge image and try to install debian
   on it, but it said something like no partion media found, some
   google works hint me it may be a problem with SATA drive, so I grabbed
   a new Etch AMD64 image to have a look, and yes, there is no such error
   message like no partion media found, instead, when it is the time to
   manually set the partition table, the installer did not list my
   current partitions at all (although there are 4 NTFS partions), this
   is the exact form:
  
   Guided partitioning
   Help on partitioning
  
  
   Undo changes to partioning
   Finish partitioning and write to disk
  
   Some discussions said that if you set your SATA to PATA from BIOS, the
   installer will recognize the drive, but after a few minutes search, I
   think my BIOS does not have that option.
   Any suggetion or solution is appreciated very much!
  
   PS: the motherboard of the computer is ASUS P5VDC-X (NorthBridge VIA
   PT880ultra, SouthBridge VIA VT8237A).
   and my knoppix liveCD seems did not recognize the drive either.
  
   TIA,
   Deephay
  
  
 
 
 
 






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Re: Installation problem - Asus A8N mobo

[Patrick Rittich]

Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi Patrick,

Tks for your advice.

snip

When I installed on a Asus A8N mobo I had to install the onboard 
ethernet drivers from the cd that came with the board.



I found it on the CD coming with Asus A8N modo.

Under Drivers/Chipset/Drivers/64bit/VM/Ethernet/NDIS/MCP51/nvpxes.nic

I think it is the driver which I need.  On that PC I have another SATA
HD running FC5_64.  The driver for onboard LAN is nVidia Corporation
MCP51 Ethernet Controller.

But I have no idea how to install it.  What command shall I run to
start pppoe configuration?

# pppoeconf
did not work on this test version.

TIA

B.R.
SL



It's been a year since I did this, but isn't it a bootable cd?

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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thierry,
  
 I dont really follow your problem: if you managed to make a
 netinstall, 
 then you lan was detected at install time, and you dont need to do 
 anything more to connect to your net. Pls explain more what is
 happening.

I ran debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst CD installer to install Debian.  It
went through without much problem except failing detecting the onboard
LAN.  I tried some drivers on the list without result. 

On reboot it booted to login screen, a black screen.  I think it is on
Runlevel 3.  After login as root I issued startx.  X window failed
to start.  Then I continue to run;

# pppoeconf

trying to connect broadband to run apt-get downloading the rest
components.  It popup a window requesting to execute modconf to
detect LAN card driver.  On clicking [OK] it did not response. 
Therefore I closed the window and ran;

# modconf
on the black screen.  It also did not response on hitting [Return].  

That was my problem.

Tks.

B.R.
SL


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Re: Installation problem

[Thierry Chatelet]

Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi Thierry,
  
  

I dont really follow your problem: if you managed to make a
netinstall, 
then you lan was detected at install time, and you dont need to do 
anything more to connect to your net. Pls explain more what is

happening.



I ran debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst CD installer to install Debian.  It
went through without much problem except failing detecting the onboard
LAN.  I tried some drivers on the list without result. 


On reboot it booted to login screen, a black screen.  I think it is on
Runlevel 3.  After login as root I issued startx.  X window failed
to start.  Then I continue to run;

# pppoeconf

trying to connect broadband to run apt-get downloading the rest
components.  It popup a window requesting to execute modconf to
detect LAN card driver.  On clicking [OK] it did not response. 
Therefore I closed the window and ran;


# modconf
on the black screen.  It also did not response on hitting [Return].  


That was my problem.

Tks.

B.R.
SL


  
I see your problem now. Maybe you should try to re-install using 
something newer than what you have. You can safely install a testing 
machine using the following link:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso


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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thierry, 

Tks for your URL.

 I see your problem now. Maybe you should try to re-install using 
 something newer than what you have. You can safely install a testing 
 machine using the following link:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
 

download it and have the ISO image burned on CD.  Sorry still no
chance, LAN card could not be detected leaving me no opportunity to
hookup the mirror site downloading other packages.  I'm now running a
minimal installation.  I have only 2 choices;

1) get a PCI network card
Or
2) download the full version on 2 DVD

# pppoeconf
did not work on this version.  What command shall I run to configure
ADSL connection?  Tks.

Besides I run installgui and can't control partitioning the HD with
LVM.  I set up;

HD - 40G

P-partition / 8G
logical partition /home 10G
Logical partition swap 1G

the remaining capacity as free space.  All partition on ext3

Any advice?  TIA

B.R.
SL


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Re: Installation problem

[Thierry Chatelet]

Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Thierry, 


Tks for your URL.

  
I see your problem now. Maybe you should try to re-install using 
something newer than what you have. You can safely install a testing 
machine using the following link:




http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
  


download it and have the ISO image burned on CD.  Sorry still no
chance, LAN card could not be detected leaving me no opportunity to
hookup the mirror site downloading other packages.  I'm now running a
minimal installation.  I have only 2 choices;

1) get a PCI network card
Or
2) download the full version on 2 DVD

# pppoeconf
did not work on this version.  What command shall I run to configure
ADSL connection?  Tks.

Besides I run installgui and can't control partitioning the HD with
LVM.  I set up;

HD - 40G

P-partition / 8G
logical partition /home 10G
Logical partition swap 1G

the remaining capacity as free space.  All partition on ext3

Any advice?  TIA

B.R.
SL


  

Can you post the output of lspci?


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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can you post the output of lspci?

# lspci
-bash : command not found

Sorry.

I have another SATA HD on this PC running FC5_64

# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev
a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev
a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
(rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio
(rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTra nsport Technology
Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address  Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscella neous Control
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
6600] (rev a 2)
* * * end * * *

Onboard LAN driver;
nVidia Corporation MCP51Ethernet Controller


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Re: Installation problem

[Thierry Chatelet]

Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

Can you post the output of lspci?



# lspci
-bash : command not found

Sorry.

I have another SATA HD on this PC running FC5_64

# lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev
a2)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev
a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
(rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio
(rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTra nsport Technology
Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address  Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscella neous Control
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
6600] (rev a 2)
* * * end * * *

Onboard LAN driver;
nVidia Corporation MCP51Ethernet Controller


B.R.
SL



  
Using google on your lan I found that some have problem of stability, 
ie: the system hangs, but the Lan was recognized. Well, maybe someone 
with more knowledge than I can help you. Sorry I could not do more

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Re: Installation problem

[Patrick Rittich]

Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi folks,

I ran debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst CD installer to install Debian.  The
installation went throught without problem.  But the onboard LAN card
can't be detected.  Neither can I select the right driver from the
list.

Motherboard - ASUS
Model - A8N-VM-UAYGZ

After booting and login as root.

ran
# pppoeconf
requesting to run modconf.  Selecting OK without response.

Neither running
# modconf
can work.

Please advise how to preceed finishing the complete installation.  TIA

B.R.
SL


When I installed on a Asus A8N mobo I had to install the onboard 
ethernet drivers from the cd that came with the board. If you don't have 
the cd, try searching online for them.


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Re: Installation problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Patrick,

Tks for your advice.

snip

 When I installed on a Asus A8N mobo I had to install the onboard 
 ethernet drivers from the cd that came with the board.

I found it on the CD coming with Asus A8N modo.

Under Drivers/Chipset/Drivers/64bit/VM/Ethernet/NDIS/MCP51/nvpxes.nic

I think it is the driver which I need.  On that PC I have another SATA
HD running FC5_64.  The driver for onboard LAN is nVidia Corporation
MCP51 Ethernet Controller.

But I have no idea how to install it.  What command shall I run to
start pppoe configuration?

# pppoeconf
did not work on this test version.

TIA

B.R.
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Re: Installation problem

[Thierry Chatelet]

Stephen Liu wrote:

Hi folks,

I ran debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst CD installer to install Debian.  The
installation went throught without problem.  But the onboard LAN card
can't be detected.  Neither can I select the right driver from the
list.

Motherboard - ASUS
Model - A8N-VM-UAYGZ

After booting and login as root.

ran
# pppoeconf
requesting to run modconf.  Selecting OK without response.

Neither running
# modconf
can work.

Please advise how to preceed finishing the complete installation.  TIA

B.R.
SL


  

Hi,
I dont really follow your problem: if you managed to make a netinstall, 
then you lan was detected at install time, and you dont need to do 
anything more to connect to your net. Pls explain more what is happening.

Thierry


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Re: Installation Problem

[Carl Fink]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:26:32PM -0700, Haster wrote:
 Can't seem to get debian to install on a 40 gig
 partation, it finds all other but that one.. ive tried
 to leave it unallocated, formatted but no drive leter,
 both physical and logical types and still can't find
 it. 

If you left it unallocated it isn't a partition.  Drive letters are
meaningless in this context--they only apply within a running DOS or Windows
system.

Use Alt-F2 to get a terminal.  Type fdisk /dev/hda (assuming you're
installing on the first or only IDE drive) and at the fdisk prompt type p
and paste the result into another message to this list.
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Re: Installation problem on ACER Travelmate 8104WLMi

[marc]

marc said...
 marc said...
  mirmasa said...
  
   I can't install debian sarge with kernel 2.6 on my laptop.
   
   For solving preliminary problem during kernel loading I disabled acpi:
   
   linux26 acpi=off
  
  Less brutal is pci=noacpi
   
   even if with this option the kernel loads and I'm able to configure the
   network, the installer does not recognize my hard disk and so I can't
   continue installation
   
   Any idea?
  
  Try installing a 2.4 kernel first, then upgrade. If you can load 2.4, 
  but 2.6 fails, then we can look at it again with more information.
 
 (I'm just bringing this back to the correct thread)
 
 As you suggested I installed with kernel 2.4 and then upgraded to 2.6 
 (kernel-image-2.6-686).

Okay, so 2.4 works.
 
 When I reboot the kernel 2.6 does not start. With the acpi=off option 
 the booting stack with the following errors:

Go with
# pci=noacpi
If you have hardware switches for wireless, Bluetooth, etc., for 
example, acpi=off will inhibit them from working, while pci=noacpi is 
far less aggressive. There could well be further hidden disabling of 
ACPI activity with acpi=off that may not become apparent until later.
 
 pivot_root: No such file or directory
 /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file
 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
 
 With google search I found that this problem should due to the SATA 
 driver, but I don?t know how to solve it.
 
 I also tried changing hdaX with sdaX in grub list

The symptoms that you've given suggest this fix. The chances are that 
the CD/DVD drive won't be visible, though, once you boot, without a 
kernel recompile.

Make sure that menu.lst is still intact, since kernel installation and 
removal automatically regenerates it. I keep my stanzas outside the 
automagic area, for this reason.

 and etc/stab but nothing changes.

I presume that you mean /etc/fstab. I don't think that the boot sequence 
has got this far yet, though.

 I can load kernel 2.4, yet.

That's not quite how we use yet ;-) I presume that you mean that 2.4 
is working - otherwise I suspect that you would have mentioned it.

I can only suggest a typo in menu.lst. BTW, you mustn't change the line:
# root (hd0,2)
or whatever values you have.

It might be worth posting the menu.lst stanza and fstab that you are 
using.

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Re: Installation problem on ACER Travelmate 8104WLMi

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 19:08 +0200, mirmasa wrote:
 HI.
 
 I can't install debian sarge with kernel 2.6 on my laptop.
 
 For solving preliminary problem during kernel loading I disabled acpi:
 
 linux26 acpi=off
 
 even if with this option the kernel loads and I'm able to configure the
 network, the installer does not recognize my hard disk and so I can't
 continue installation

your hard disk could be sata.

you could see if there if ide emulation works, try using the 2.4 kernel
or checking your bios.

otherwise switch to a different virtual console and try loading some
modules that may recognize the hardware.

-matt zagrabelny


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Re: Installation Problem

[Josh Battles]

David Meeson said:
 I have installed Version 3.1 several times and on each occasion I have
 difficulty logging on after inserting user name and password.

 It appears to accept user name but password it not accepted and the
 cursor dos not move across.

The curson will not move when you type in your password.  Passwords are also
case sensative, are you paying attention to case when you type it in?

Can you log in as root?

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Re: Installation Problem

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:45 +1000, David Meeson wrote:
 I have installed Version 3.1 several times and on each occasion I have
 difficulty logging on after inserting user name and password.
  
 It appears to accept user name but password it not accepted and the
 cursor dos not move across.
  

ive had issues using mac (usb) keyboards and having some various symbols
in my password. on your next install (if you still cant log in) try
setting the passwords to alphabetical phrases only.

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Re: Installation problem

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:11:35PM +0200, Andrej Perdih wrote:
 Dear Sir or Madam,
 
 I am wirting to you in order to kindly ask for your assistance. I have
 downloaded the iso image of the core Debian 3.1 for i386 arcfitecture (i have
 pentium 4 processor). 
 
 Then I have successfuly instaled the core (i only could not make the DHCP act
 properly... i know very important). After that the system boots into debian
 where it should download the rest of the system via Internet. And here my
 problems start. 
 
 I have a ADSL connection and my computer is connected on the internet via
 router. I was not able to connfigure that in my system so that i could 
 establish
 a connection. Plese help in and give me detailed instructions (I am not an
 expert in this matter) how to make this connection work. I was Windows XP
 already installed onm my system if it it any easier. 
 
 I would really like to thank you for your assistence and look forwart to your
 replay.
 
 Kind regards from Slovenia.
 
 Andrej Perdih
Hi Andrej,
Welcome to Debian!
the main file for configuring the network is '/etc/network/interfaces'.
For help with this, read the 'man' page for 'interfaces'.
use:
man interfaces
after reading this, ask more questions!
(if you are not familiar with 'man', then do this:
man man
)
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Re: Installation problem

[Kent West]

Andrej Perdih wrote:

  Dear Sir or Madam,

I am wirting to you in order to kindly ask for your assistance. I have
downloaded the iso image of the core Debian 3.1 for i386 arcfitecture (i have
pentium 4 processor). 

Then I have successfuly instaled the core (i only could not make the DHCP act
properly... i know very important).

If the DHCP did not work during the installation, chances are you've
got something that's unsupported, such as your ethernet adapter or your
router's protocol/configuration.


   After that the system boots into debian
where it should download the rest of the system via Internet. And here my
problems start. 

I have a ADSL connection and my computer is connected on the internet via
router. I was not able to connfigure that in my system so that i could establish
a connection. Plese help in and give me detailed instructions
  

What's the result of the command "lspci | grep thernet"?

What's the result of "ifconfig"?

What happens if you try to ping your router's IP address?



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Re: Installation problem

[Clive Menzies]

On (11/07/05 22:11), Andrej Perdih wrote:
 I am wirting to you in order to kindly ask for your assistance. I have
 downloaded the iso image of the core Debian 3.1 for i386 arcfitecture (i have
 pentium 4 processor). 
 
 Then I have successfuly instaled the core (i only could not make the DHCP act
 properly... i know very important). After that the system boots into debian
 where it should download the rest of the system via Internet. And here my
 problems start. 
 
 I have a ADSL connection and my computer is connected on the internet via
 router. I was not able to connfigure that in my system so that i could 
 establish
 a connection. Plese help in and give me detailed instructions (I am not an
 expert in this matter) how to make this connection work. I was Windows XP
 already installed onm my system if it it any easier. 
 
 I would really like to thank you for your assistence and look forwart to your
 replay.

Hi Andrej

If DHCP failed to work automatically during the install, it is likely
that your NIC card isn't recognised for some reason.

If you press Alt+F2 you should get a shell type the following at the
prompt:

# lspci

And tell us what NIC card you have.

Regards

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RE: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

[Emmanuele BARBARO]

Hi, I'm an italian brand new Debian user.

I've installed the latest TESTING version and I've found some problems:

MY VGA CARD wasn't found;
MY SOUND BLASTER wasn't found.

I've a PCI EXPRESS vga card (SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON X700 PRO 256MB) and
AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO audio card.

To remedy the VGA PROBLEM I've installed the VESA drivers but it isn't
the final solution!

For audio card I've found in INFO CENTER that the card is recognized
but, in section SYNTH there'is nothing and, I belive, for this reason I
don't hear any sound.

Could you help me?

Thank you
Emmanuele


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Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

[Kent West]

Emmanuele BARBARO wrote:

I've installed the latest TESTING version and I've found some problems:

MY SOUND BLASTER wasn't found.

AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO audio card.

For audio card I've found in INFO CENTER that the card is recognized
but, in section SYNTH there'is nothing and, I belive, for this reason I
don't hear any sound.
  


You're probably not a member of the audio group. Run the command
groups to see which groups to which you belong.

If you're not a member of audio, you can do something like adduser
barbaro audio as root. Then log out and log back in. Does sound work now?

If not, try running modconf and see if you can find a module for your
audigy.

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RE: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

[Emmanuele BARBARO]

Have you received my e-mail? Any news?

-Original Message-
From: Emmanuele BARBARO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 15:22
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'; 'debian-italian@lists.debian.org'
Subject: RE: INSTALLATION PROBLEM
Importance: High



Hi, I'm an italian brand new Debian user.

I've installed the latest TESTING version and I've found some problems:

MY VGA CARD wasn't found;
MY SOUND BLASTER wasn't found.

I've a PCI EXPRESS vga card (SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON X700 PRO 256MB) and
AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO audio card.

To remedy the VGA PROBLEM I've installed the VESA drivers but it isn't
the final solution!

For audio card I've found in INFO CENTER that the card is recognized
but, in section SYNTH there'is nothing and, I belive, for this reason I
don't hear any sound.

Could you help me?

Thank you
Emmanuele


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Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

[Kent West]

Emmanuele BARBARO wrote:

Have you received my e-mail? Any news?

  

You got one reply: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/05/msg01131.html

You'd probably get better results if you'd separate the two problems
into two separate threads, and use a meaningful subject line on each
(people tend to ignore generic subjects on busy lists).

(CC:ing you this time (against standard list practice), as it appears
you missed the first reply.)

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Re: Installation problem with Woody

[Ron Johnson]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 15:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello I have an installation related problem with debian 3(Woody). I
 am totally new to linux
 and have probably done something stupid ,but very early in the
 installation process the installer hangs. My machine has a Pentium 4,
 an Intel D915G motherboard,1 hard disk and a CDROM .
[snip]

I'd suggest you try to install Sarge instead of Woody, since it 
is up-to-date, and Woody is about 2 years old.  Sarge is also much
easier to install.

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Re: Installation problem: can't mount CD drive

[Kent West]

Catatonic Porpoise wrote:

I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 3.0rev2 i386 by CD, using a copy of
binary CD 1 I burned myself, on a new machine. The CD boots and the
installer runs fine, it gets to the part where it installs the kernel and
driver modules, and then it asks me what to install from - CD, floppies,
NFS, etc - even though the install guide indicates that it should know to
install from CD-ROM. When I select the CD-ROM option, it says the CD was
not mounted successfully (that's all, no reason given or anything).
I tried mounting it manually from ash, the little shell built into the
installer, with (from the / directory) mkdir cdrom mount -t iso9660
/dev/cdrom /cdrom. It gives me a line saying that /dev/cdrom is read-only
and it's mounting it that way, then it says Mount failed: invalid
argument. /cdrom is a symlink to /hdc, which I understand is supposed to
be the master of the second IDE device; according to the BIOS, this is
correct. I have tried:
-checking the options I used in Nero against the ones given in the install
guide, and burning another CD
-setting Plug 'n Play OS to No in the BIOS setup
-removing write privileges for everyone from /cdrom
None has helped. Any ideas? (I'm new to Linux, but I've had a bit of
experience with FreeBSD. [I ended up not using it much after it was
installed, because it didn't have a driver for my network card.] In case
it matters, this computer hasn't and doesn't have any other operating
systems installed.)
-graue

 

I've never had much experience with doing a CD-based install. Somewhere 
near the point where you're at, I've always done a net install. (Of 
course you may have no networking, so this might not be an option for you.)

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Re: installation problem (Woody r2)

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:56:37PM +0100, Andreas van Leeuwen Flamino wrote:
 I am having troubles installing debian. I am using Woody release 2 on
 i386 hardware, and each time the installer stops either with 'return
 value 127' or 'return value 1'.
 /target/var/log/debootstrap.log reads:
 -
  
  ln:
  
  
  /target/usr/bin/awk:
 File exits

Make sure that the target filesystem is empty.

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Re: installation problem (Woody r2)

[Andreas van Leeuwen Flamino]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:08:24PM +, Colin Watson wrote the following (indented);
 On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:56:37PM +0100, Andreas van Leeuwen Flamino wrote:
  I am having troubles installing debian. I am using Woody release 2 on
  i386 hardware, and each time the installer stops either with 'return
  value 127' or 'return value 1'.
  /target/var/log/debootstrap.log reads:
  -  
 
   ln:
 
 
   /target/usr/bin/awk:
  File exits
 
 Make sure that the target filesystem is empty.


Okay, so i rebooted, had Debian create partitions for me and now it
exits with 'return value 1'.
The last lines of
/target/var/log/debootstrap.log read:
-  
 
Setting
   
 up
tasksel (1.43)
Errors were encountered while processing:
lilo
/usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1: sleep: not found
-  
   
   
 TIA.

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Re: Installation Problem

[Andreas Janssen]

Hello

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 I've got a new distribution woody
 
 I boot from CD-Rom but than the computer cannot
 find my hard disks ( 2 SCSI) he asked to load some modules
 
 I think they are on the CD but he requests floppies.
 
 It is possible to let the installation know that everything is on CD ?

You should try another kernel. The standard installation kernel
(2.2.20idepci) may not have the drivers you need, but maybe some of the
other installation kernels do. Press F3 after booting to see wich ones
are available. Type bf24 at the prompt directly after booting to load
2.4.18 for installation.

best regards
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Re: Installation problem

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:01:20 +0100, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi people,
 
 at first, my English is very bad, so please don't wonder about this
 mail.
 
 I tried to install Debian 3.0 from the CD's I loaded. But after
 booting I'm not in the Standard boot-prompt.
 There's just a black screen with a short text at the top:
 blablablaTAB lists the possible Commandsblablablabla.
 below is written: grub
 If I press TAB, ther comes a little list of commands.
 But I don't know what I have to do now. I'm very new in the
 Linux-world. I tried SuSE but I hate it. It's very gay :)
 So I wanted to try Debian, and I hope it's not so gay like SuSE.
 
 please help me to install the System.

..if you _have_ installed, but just screwed to the grub setup, 
use cd number one to boot Linux rescue or some such, the 
Debian installer cd's provide good help from the [F1] buttons 
onwards.

..once you have your rescue system up, go edit the config to fit your 
own system, mine:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#  all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#  root (hd0,0)
#  kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md3
#  initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
fallback=1
timeout=10
# splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Debian Linux (vga=ask)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-k6 ro root=/dev/hda10 vga=ask panic=20
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-1-k6
title Debian Linux (2.4.18-1-k6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-1-k6 ro root=/dev/hda10 vga=795 panic=20
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-1-k6
title Debian Linux (2.4.18-k6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-k6 ro root=/dev/hda10 vga=795 panic=20
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-k6
title Debian Linux (2.4.16-k6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.16-k6 ro root=/dev/hda10 vga=795 panic=20
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.16-k6
title Debian Linux (2.4.18-386)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-386 ro root=/dev/hda10 vga=795 panic=20
initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-386

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll -G /boot/grub/
total 165
-rw-r--r--1 root   45 Jun 16 05:06 device.map
-rw-r--r--1 root 7904 Jun 16 05:06 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--1 root 7440 Jun 16 05:06 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--1 root 6912 Jun 16 05:06 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--1 root 1210 Jul 16 06:35 grub.conf
-rw-r--r--1 root 8640 Jun 16 05:06 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx1 root9 Jun 16 15:27 menu.lst - grub.conf
-rw-r--r--1 root 7104 Jun 16 05:06 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--1 root 9568 Jun 16 05:06 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--1 root  512 Jun 16 05:06 stage1
-rw-r--r--1 root95712 Jun 16 05:06 stage2
-rw-r--r--1 root 6560 Jun 16 05:06 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--1 root 9320 Jun 16 05:06 xfs_stage1_5
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll -G /boot/
total 16598
-rw-r--r--1 root   398158 Nov 28  2001 System.map-2.4.16-386
-rw-r--r--1 root   387269 Nov 28  2001 System.map-2.4.16-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root   397998 Aug 10 01:38 System.map-2.4.18-1-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root   559088 Jun  9 14:50 System.map-2.4.18-bf2.4
-rw-r--r--1 root   397485 Apr 14  2002 System.map-2.4.18-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root 7988 Apr 13  2002 boot-bmp.b
-rw-r--r--1 root 6204 Apr 13  2002 boot-compat.b
-rw-r--r--1 root 7964 Apr 13  2002 boot-menu.b
-rw-r--r--1 root 6204 Apr 13  2002 boot-text.b
-rw-r--r--1 root  512 Jun  9 15:02 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx1 root   11 Jun  9 14:56 boot.b - boot-menu.b
-rw-r--r--1 root  728 Apr 13  2002 chain.b
-rw-r--r--1 root34039 Nov 27  2001 config-2.4.16-386
-rw-r--r--1 root34155 Nov 28  2001 config-2.4.16-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root37036 Aug  2 04:59 config-2.4.18-1-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root16984 Jun  9 14:50 config-2.4.18-bf2.4
-rw-r--r--1 root37036 Apr 14  2002 config-2.4.18-k6
drwxr-xr-x2 root 1024 Jun 16 00:34 fai
drwxr-xr-x2 root 1024 Jun 16 15:27 grub
-rw-r--r--1 root  2662400 Jun 16 00:35 initrd.img-2.4.16-386
-rw-r--r--1 root  2674688 Jun 16 04:33 initrd.img-2.4.16-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root  2691072 Aug 16 07:53 initrd.img-2.4.18-1-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root  2691072 Jun 16 04:36 initrd.img-2.4.18-k6
drwx--2 root12288 Jun  9 14:40 lost+found
-rw---1 root17408 Jun  9 19:53 map
-rw-r--r--1 root84480 Mar  9  2002 memtest86.bin
-rw-r--r--1 root  656 Apr 13  2002 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r--1 root   637173 Nov 28  2001 vmlinuz-2.4.16-386
-rw-r--r--1 root   593575 Nov 28  2001 vmlinuz-2.4.16-k6
-rw-r--r--1 root   615590 

Re: Installation problem

[Kent West]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi people,

at first, my English is very bad, so please don't wonder about this mail.

I tried to install Debian 3.0 from the CD's I loaded. But after booting I'm
not in the Standard boot-prompt.
There's just a black screen with a short text at the top: blablablaTAB
lists the possible Commandsblablablabla.
below is written: grub
If I press TAB, ther comes a little list of commands.
But I don't know what I have to do now. I'm very new in the Linux-world.
I tried SuSE but I hate it. It's very gay :)
So I wanted to try Debian, and I hope it's not so gay like SuSE.
please help me to install the System.

greets,
Daniel Engelhardt
 

grub is a boot loader, but it's not standard on Debian 3.0 as far as I 
know. Rather, lilo is the standard boot loader. It's odd that your 
attempt at installing Debian would install grub, and I have no 
explanation for it.

Nor am I particularly familiar with grub. But if Debian is properly 
installed, even if the boot loader (grub) is not configured ot fire it 
up, grub is flexible enough to boot Debian, at which time you can 
reconfigure grub's configuration files to make the boot process automatic.

Hopefully someone else can give you more specific instructions for 
booting Debian from a non-configured grub; else you can read up on grub 
on the web and figure out how to boot Debian.

/Kent

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Re: Installation problem

[Arnt Karlsen]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:01:20 +0100, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi people,
 
 at first, my English is very bad, so please don't wonder about this
 mail.
 
..gibts auch eine Deutsch-spracheliche Debian users liste;
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/
http://lists.debian.org/users.html

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