Re: Help Installing Debian

2011-05-22 Thread Arno Schuring
Klistvud (klist...@gmail.com on 2011-05-21 10:04 +0200): Dne, 21. 05. 2011 09:40:02 je Camaleón napisal(a): [snip] I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-? Don't know about LVM/RAID setups, but plain old

Help Installing Debian

2011-05-21 Thread Joy
Dear All, I am using IBM System X 3400 M3 with Raid1 and Raid5. Raid1 id being used to have Debian and raid5 for /home partiotion. Whenever i am trying to install it after creating a partition when it goes to format reboots my system. I have also tried lenny 5.8 which is not detecting

Re: Help Installing Debian

2011-05-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:35:42 +0530, Joy wrote: I am using IBM System X 3400 M3 with Raid1 and Raid5. Raid1 id being used to have Debian and raid5 for /home partiotion. Are those raid over a hardware raid controller or you want to create a software based raid? Whenever i am

Re: Help Installing Debian

2011-05-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 05. 2011 09:40:02 je Camaleón napisal(a): [snip] I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-? Don't know about LVM/RAID setups, but plain old one-disk setups need a (tiny) dedicated boot partition if you

Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder

2008-05-05 Thread Yassir Saeed
Hi I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i am having a problem installing debian-builder package i tried to install it from Aptitude (package manager) but there are lot of dependencies they have the

Re: Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder

2008-05-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Yassir Saeed: I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i am having a problem installing debian-builder package Which version of Debian are you running? Etch (=stable), lenny (=testing) or sid

Re: Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:33:31PM +0500, Yassir Saeed wrote: I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i am having a problem installing debian-builder package i tried to install it from Aptitude

Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

2005-08-22 Thread Court Thomas
On Sunday 14 August 2005 9:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Court Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE

Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

2005-08-14 Thread Court Thomas
I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting

Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

2005-08-14 Thread michael
Quoting Court Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. My computer is capable of booting

Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

2005-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Court Thomas wrote: I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. That is Intel's implementation of the amd64 architecture previously known as x86-64. This is also known as

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-03-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-03-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i just sent

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-03-02 Thread Sis
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i just sent in a message with my own

Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-02-27 Thread Sis
Hello, I have just subscribed, so please let me know if there is an archived answer/FAQ i should be reading. (I found some but not the answer to my question.) I just acquired a 2 year old computer with Athlon 1800+ motherboard, including an nvidia based NIC. I tried to install Debian using

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-02-27 Thread Kenward Vaughan
You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:50:09PM -0800, Sis wrote: ... I just acquired a 2 year old computer with Athlon 1800+ motherboard,

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-16 Thread Paul Mackinney
Here's what I do, got it from some dual-boot HOWTO or something: 1. The Win2000 system is set up and installed, all OK. 2. Lilo is set up as follows: boot=/dev/hda5 # instead or boot=/dev/hda This is the option to install to the partition instead of the MBR. 3. After running lilo, I run

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-12 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:20:57PM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard.

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-05 Thread Matthew Dalton
Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-05 Thread Dmitriy
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX)

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-05 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX)

Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire)

2001-09-05 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire) Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd images

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire)

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:39:17AM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: | Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot | partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try | again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd |

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire)

2001-09-05 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.05 15:39 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd images of Woody? I am

RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire) Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:32:13AM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: | Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like | to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the | C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000 or thereabouts, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first'

RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3

2001-09-05 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 How did you do it? Also, do you have Win2000 on your first drive and then Debian on your second drive? -Original Message- From: Rino Mardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:16 AM To: debian-user

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread csj
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:32:13 -0600 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D

RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )

2001-09-05 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire ) I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard. So

Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
Title: Help installing Debian 2.2r17 I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard drives are arranged

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard drives are arranged as... No worries here... Using

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Glad to hear about you using the Linux OS. and Debian is a great Dist. to use, a little more tricky than most others, (mandrake, etc) but in the end, I think you may prefer it over others. Quoting LaGuardia, Kristofer S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread F Zimmermann
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.04 11:51 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Quick question, if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... Hope i understand this question! What do you mean with specify a partition? Ok. I think you like to know wheter

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
A little warning: image=/boot/vmlinuz-!! root=/dev/hda9 append=idebus=33 hdc=ide-scsi label=Linux read-only My vmlinuz is on this place: /boot/vmlinuz. But i mean yours will be: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. You can let this part of

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.04 21:56 Timeboy wrote: A little warning: image=/boot/vmlinuz-!! root=/dev/hda9 append=idebus=33 hdc=ide-scsi label=Linux read-only My vmlinuz is on this place: /boot/vmlinuz. But i mean yours will be:

Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17

2001-09-04 Thread Timeboy
On 2001.09.04 21:39 Timeboy wrote: On 2001.09.04 11:51 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Quick question, if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... Hope i understand this question! What do you mean with specify a

Help installing Debian-LINUX

2001-05-24 Thread Smruti Jena
Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How can I do it? Can I install it in D:\ without

Re: Help installing Debian-LINUX

2001-05-24 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:07:18AM +0530, Smruti Jena wrote: Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting

Re: Help installing Debian-LINUX

2001-05-24 Thread Paul Wright
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:07:18, Smruti wrote: Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How

Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-21 Thread Tony Crawford
Jan Enning wrote (on 20 May 2001, at 21:17): I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message:

Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-20 Thread Jan Enning
Well I've got a 'solution' :-) The reason I didn't use any floppy is simple because they are most of the time broken, old, etc...not very reliable. But if you don't have any bandwidth, stick with the floppy :-) I downloaded the complete Debian ISO and burned it on a CD, then bought a crappy ATA

HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-16 Thread Arnold Canete
Hello guys! I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message: Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS

Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian

2001-05-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:18:30PM -0700, Arnold Canete wrote: Hello guys! I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the

Re: Help installing debian first time

2001-02-13 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:18:53PM +0100, Tobias Hahn wrote: Hi! I purchased a new computer and I would like to install debian on it. If possible, I would like to install kernel 2.4. Is this possible from the beginning of the installation? If not so, is there a way to build custom boot

Help installing debian first time

2001-02-12 Thread Tobias Hahn
Hi! I purchased a new computer and I would like to install debian on it. If possible, I would like to install kernel 2.4. Is this possible from the beginning of the installation? If not so, is there a way to build custom boot cds/floppies containing at least reiserfs? I am new to Debian but not

Help installing Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Glenn Murray
Hi, I am trying to install Debian on two workstations. They have Promise Ultra66 cards to which the hard drive is attached. The install kernel does not support these cards, but the (CheapBytes) installation CD has in dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66 a readme

RE: [lug] *440MHz, 512MB UltraSPARC 10 with FLAT 21 Color Monitor* Help installing Debian

2000-12-28 Thread Ulises V. Martinez
, December 28, 2000 12:47 PM To: Boulder Linux User's Group; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [lug] Help installing Debian Hi, I am trying to install Debian on two workstations. They have Promise Ultra66 cards to which the hard drive is attached. The install kernel does not support

I need help Installing Debian 2.0 (Intel) for first time

1998-11-29 Thread Chris Chapman
Hi; (My System:QDI 430TX motherboard,CyriX 200MMX CPU and 96MG Edo Ram) I am new to Linux Debian, Also I am not a programmer. I have tried to install Debian 2.0 (Intel)from CD. I have Win98 on my 4.3GB hard drive so I cleared 2.4G and managed to create a 200Mg root partition dev/hda3,

Re: I need help Installing Debian 2.0 (Intel) for first time

1998-11-29 Thread Andrew Ivanov
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Help installing Debian on UMSDOS file system?

1998-08-25 Thread Steve Byrne
I'm trying to install Debian on my wife's laptop that's currently running Windows 95. She's afraid that if I repartition it to make space for Linux, that she won't be able to reinstall all the Win95 software that's on the disk (it's a Compaq, and they don't ship Win95 installation CDs with their

HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread ranty
My father wants to make some changes in his Bussines and I am trying to get Debian/Linux into those changes. I will explain myself: He is going to change his system: Computer: FUJITSU TITAN2600 (with 24 terminals) O.S.: PICK O.A. v5.2 With: Terminal based menues for entering,

Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread Stephen Zander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think he needs: A PICK interpreter or so. Something to convert the old data. Some program to later on replace that PICK interpreter? Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. That sounds like a pretty complete list. However, it's likely to be

Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines

1997-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My father wants to make some changes in his Bussines and I am trying to get Debian/Linux into those changes. I will explain myself: He is going to change his system: Computer: FUJITSU TITAN2600 (with 24 terminals) O.S.: PICK O.A. v5.2 With:

HELP INSTALLING DEBIAN!!

1997-10-19 Thread rrodrigu
Hello everybody! This one's for all of you linux pros out there... I just downloaded all of the debian installation disks, and tried to install them on an IBM PS/2. However, it does not work Linux will not detect my hard drive. I think that it said somewhere that there was no support for the

Help installing Debian on a Thinkpad

1997-01-09 Thread Paul Rightley
I am trying to install Debian (1.2) on my Thinkpad 365XD. I cannot get the rescue disk to boot (I have tries both the 12/8/96 and the 1/4/97 disk sets). The symptoms are as follows. I put the floppy in the (external) drive and power-up the machine (same thing happens on warm reboots). I get

Re: Help installing debian Other packages

1996-11-18 Thread Wayne Richardson
Hi all, I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386), but I don't know how to fix it. If I click on the file (using Netscape Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen. If I

Re: Help installing debian Other packages

1996-11-17 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote: I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in

Help installing debian Other packages

1996-11-15 Thread Wayne Richardson
Hi all, I have installed the Debian linux system on my system but am now having problems installing other packages. I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I