Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
Is there anyone out there that I could call concerning my problem installing debian 1.3. I have only had one responce on my posted questions... and am no farther ahead than I was a week ago. Whats my problem??? Well ok, let's see, the installation of the base system works correctly. I can

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Pavel Galynin
hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone out there that I could call concerning my problem installing debian 1.3. i'm in europe, and you probably don't want to make an international call. neither would i be of much assistance here. slakware is looking real nice right about

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to install the file libc5_5.4.33-3.deb using dpkg and I get a message that says version 4.23-6 is already installed. I am sorry as I really don't know how to solve your problem but the one strange thing I have noticed is that the package you

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Philippe Troin
[stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] What version of the bootdisks do you have ? You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have something very wrong. I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks and restarting from scratch. Phil. -- TO

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Paul McDermott
Phil is on the right track. libc5... is a base package and gets installed during the base system. the other thing you could try is to dpkg --help and take a look at the force and remove options. try not to install base packages as much as possible. When installing debian you should look at

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
I'm sorry to have missed the front of this thread. First, the version in stable is correct. The fact that an older version is in unstable is a minor problem with the archive management. Second, this version was tested on a fresh install by myself and at least one other tester, with no problems,

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
Sorry to take so long to reply. The recent point release has been taking all my time. I suspect that your problems are with the ftp method (this was not tested as extensivly as it should have been) You indicated that you have tried this 7 times. Was it from scratch each time? That is, did you

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: [stuff about complete install failure with dselect/dpkg] What version of the bootdisks do you have ? You shouldn't need to upgrade libc5 after a fresh instal... You probably have something very wrong. I'd suggest getting a new set of bootdisks

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
Bruce, When I run ldconfig here is what it says ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory), skipping When I look for these files they point to: libc.so -

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread bigt
DWI suspect that your problems are with the ftp method (this was not tested DWas extensivly as it should have been) DWYou indicated that you have tried this 7 times. Was it from scratch each DWtime? That is, did you start over and do a fresh install each time? Yes each time was a start over...

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or When I look for these files they point to: libc.so - /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there is a

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Will Lowe
OOPS. See below: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: libc.so - /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 This file don't exist but there is a 5.4.23 libm.so - /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 This file also does not exist but is a 5.0.8 b) ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 libc.so ln -s /lib/libm.so.5.0.9 libm.so

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Alex Yukhimets
DWSuggestion: Set up the base system. Download the new libc5 package and DWinstall it with dpkg -i libc5*.deb 21 |tee install.log. This will put DWall the error messages into the file intall.log. If the installation DWfails, send me the file. Does this mean When dselect is ran skip the

Re: Anyone available that I can call???

1997-07-03 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Thu, Jul 03, 1997 at 10:45:15AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or When I look for these files they point to: