Re: Linux install bug
On Monday 02 July 2012 12:51:53 greens...@care4free.net wrote: Also, please, someone explain why this slightly fundamental glitch is still present after what ... seven years or more? I have never had this problem, and have used the 6.0.5 netinstall frequently. Perhaps there is something unusual about your set-up? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207021651.52972.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Linux install bug
On 02/07/12 07:51 AM, greens...@care4free.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to start by apologising if this is in the wrong place. I have looked, and not found a beginners/install problems place. Meanwhile I discover this glitch goes back at least to 2005. Please help me recover my faith in Debian/Linux. I'm a 'straight out of the box' user, fail abyssmally to use the command line, find most advice itself incomprehendable - sorry! Used Ubuntu for a while on my not-so-ancient box (Dual 1.8GHz Aspire), but now with constant upgrade it's getting slow. Ran Lubuntu, but various things don't work. I Like debian, and seek to install with Lubuntu, so have partitioned my HD into four chinks of about 50Gb, Successfully installed my earlier Ubuntu 8.10, but no support or upgrade path, so now trying to replace with Debian 6.05 net install. Have burnt two CD's now. Both boot to the first, startup, install page with the little rocket. Very nice. But no mouse or keyboard. I have also an ATI (?) older keyboard plugged in. No response from that. All my kit is bog standard and has worked fine with Debian and Ubuntu in the past. Help! Also, please, someone explain why this slightly fundamental glitch is still present after what ... seven years or more? thanks, i do love Linux ... in theory. Tony Are you sure your install CD is good? Did you check the .iso against the MD5 checksum? Upgrading Ubuntu is a little painful. You really need to commit to either upgrading every six months for the regular releases or every other year for the LTS release. However, you may have some luck editing /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing the 8.10 code name with the current (precise) one, then doing: sudo bash apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ff1cb5a.8050...@rogers.com
Re: Linux Install
on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:18:00PM -0400, Shyam Ramachandran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can I install Linux Debian in Compaq Presario Pentium II, 128 MB Ram Probably, though you're providing nowhere near sufficient information to answer the question. The level of system support you'll get depends strongly on the cards and components you have on your system. You'll want to research sound, video, modem, and peripherals. Best thing to do is tear open the box, note markings on significant chips on all cards, and go through various GNU/Linux hardware compatibility lists, or search Google. A useful search recipie is: chip identifier linux ...with driver support install and configure being additional adds. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself! pgpCzRqZWAoUg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linux Install
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the /main directory from the stable area on the Debian.org FTP site and burned that to a CD, less the devel section. (This and the disks directory almost fill one CD.) This is almost always not necessary; you can download the essentail files from disks-yourarchitecture and then have APT do the downloading (I assume that if you have the time or bandwidth to download this much before installing then you have enough to do it during :-) 6 hours later the install bombed with an error code 1. Any ideas? This is usually an setup *script* from a specific pacakge that's causing trouble; in most cases once you can eliminate the problem with package X everything else can configure itself fine. However, to get any help you'll have to post the actual errors - what script is causing this problem and what the command with the 'red flag' exit status is. From there someone should be able to figure it out. -- Men argue; nature acts. -- Voltaire
Re: Linux install error
Shane S. hat gesagt: // Shane S. wrote: I am trying to install debian linux on this laptop i have. When I bootup with boot disk, i get the following error. Parition check: hda: attemtp to access beyond end of device 03:01: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 [... and so on] And it sits there forever. Can someone help? Might be that your boot disk is corrupt. This happens quite often, floppies are junk :( Try using another floppy. You can make one with rawrite. Please read the installation guide on www.debian.org for further instructions. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Linux install problem
Shanta McBain wrote: Hi I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as delete partitions dose not see the partitions. Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem? Thanks Shanta Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option (delete logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you delete an extended partition untill all logical partitions in it are deleted). For the Linux partitions, use cfdisk to create them, not DOS's fdisk. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
Greets, Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option (delete logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you delete an extended partition untill all logical partitions in it are deleted). For the Linux partitions, use cfdisk to create them, not DOS's fdisk. FWIW, I've personally found that cfdisk can cope with lots of things that cause DOS/Win95 fdisk to choke badly. For eg. I had a disk with an NTFS psrtition, which DOS fdisk stubbornly refused to delete, no matter what I did and how much I swore at it. Booted with my bo rescue disk, fired up cfdisk, and managed to wipe it out with no problem. There you go, a linux rescue disk is a very valuable tool, even for DOS users! damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systems Administrator EmpireNET Melbourne, Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk then into the linux machine. Cant even ftp from the windows machine as the ftp dos not appear to be in the base setup from floppies. Shanta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux install problem
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Shanta McBain wrote: I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logical partitions exist. likely the linux primary and swap. It will not delete them as delete partitions dose not see the partitions. Is there a linux tool that will fix the problem? I think you should try cfdisk first. It's far easier to use, and it displays you the logical partitions within your extended. Another way is to download a low level formatter like DiskManager or EzDrive. As stated by the ATA specification, a hd has to do such a low level format without any problems. Bye Daniel -- Daniel Gross eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollarstrasse 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-85053 Ingolstadt, Germany -- An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. -- David Letterman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
