Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Beauchamp
[Apologies for the dodgy quoting - copied off the web archive!] I've just been reading through this thread, 'cos I appear to be experiencing exactly the same problems as Ariel here... I have a completely blank HD (just removed from box - previous HD just died rather horribly), and bunged in the

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 07:37, Ariel Tankus wrote: I think it is weird to leave some files on older archives like potato's, forcing any mirror site to mirror also potato! You'd have to take that up with ftpmaster. I don't really know anything about the details of how the archive is supposed to

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:51:40PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: 1. After entering the root floppy, and immediately before the first screen (the Debian 3.0 title), the following error messages occured: modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.dep

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:35:05PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:51:40PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: 1. After entering the root floppy, and immediately before the first screen (the Debian 3.0 title), the following error messages occured: modprobe:

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: The at_3.1.8-10_i386.deb has exactly the same size as the Packages file specified (a Packages file I just downloaded). However, I checked 3 ftp sites, but they had no ``at'' for i386 at their pools! The version in woody is the

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: Since I have the /dev/hda4 unchanged, I just checked what's going on there right now (following the installation attempt my original message referred to). retina:/mnt/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -l total 896 -rw-r--r--1 root

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:23:46PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: The at_3.1.8-10_i386.deb has exactly the same size as the Packages file specified (a Packages file I just downloaded). However, I checked 3 ftp sites, but they

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-12 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:50:49PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: I then tried a brand new installation, including formatting the partition. In this case, the whole installation, until the base system installation, went smooth. Not a single error and no hack needed. At the base system

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-10 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:50:49PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: I then tried a brand new installation, including formatting the partition. In this case, the whole installation, until the base system installation, went smooth. Not a single error and no hack needed. At the base system

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Philip Blundell
Just to reiterate: I believe the problem was that the http connection process used to download the base system from the internet is broken under woody. The system could not even hit our proxy server, never mind connect to ftp.uk.debian.com It seems to work for most people. Are you sure you had

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:49:25PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: Just to reiterate: I believe the problem was that the http connection process used to download the base system from the internet is broken under woody. The system could not even hit our proxy server, never mind connect to

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Philip Blundell
I then tried a brand new installation, including formatting the partition. In this case, the whole installation, until the base system installation, went smooth. Not a single error and no hack needed. At the base system installation, the error message occured once again. Okay. First, can

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:06:28AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 4/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tillman) wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-06 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 4/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tillman) wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I am using a modified version of the kernel on the

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I am using a modified version of the kernel on the rescue disk at

URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi. With the help of this list I've got a woody megaraid set of boot floppies made up. All is going well until the base system install. I'm trying to do this through our firewall on 10.0.0.1:8000. On console 2 I can ping ftp.uk.debian.org successfully. I punch in the following: Download URL :

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 07:02, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: And get the message Malformed release file http://ftp.uk.debian.org:80/debian/dists/woody/Release. What version of boot-floppies is this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I am using a modified version of the kernel on the rescue disk at http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/kernel-config Well,