Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread lee
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: The expected workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that will be made (including ones that were required by your past changes). If you like it, you

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:33 PM, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: The expected workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that will be made (including

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out. If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks. That you can figure it out doesn't mean that it doesn't suck. Maybe I did figure it out but found that it

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39 -0600, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: But aptitude does *not* remove software without asking -- it just asks in a different place. How do you know that? Because he wrote it (aptitude,

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39AM -0600, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: The expected workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that will

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:24:02AM -0600, lee wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out. If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks. That you can figure it out doesn't mean that it

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:22:08AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Have you read the excellent aptitude manual (I think its in package aptitude-doc)? Also, be sure to use the curses interface (rather than the command-line apt-get replacement). Not yet, but I'll take a look at it, thanks. --

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-17 Thread lee
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:50:00PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Please, PLEASE don't suggest dselect to new users of Debian. They will run away in horror and tell everyone how terrible system Debian is. Well, I did run away in horror from aptitude. I tried it, but I wasn't able to figure out

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:28:20AM -0600, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: It was yast on Suse after 6.2 that made me switch to Debian because yast kept doing things I didn't want it to do, and it finally managed to remove qmail which I had spend a lot of work on to install it and get

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-17 10:28 +0100, lee wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:50:00PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Besides, the only access method in dselect that is known to be non-broken is the apt access method. Then it should work when he updates /etc/apt/sources.list and reads the package

using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-17 Thread lee
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:00:31AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:28:20AM -0600, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: It was yast on Suse after 6.2 that made me switch to Debian because yast kept doing things I didn't want it to do, and it finally managed to

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-17 Thread lee
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:18:43PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Yes, and it is different from dselect's own cdrom method. The latter will not work with multiple discs, you have to install the dpkg-multicd package for that. Hm, a long time ago I sucessfully used that method to install from a

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:05:48 -0600, lee wrote: [...] Why shouldn't using dselect be recommended? Let's ask fortune: $ fortune debian -m Andrew Morton (/usr/share/games/fortunes/debian) % I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided debian. -- Andrew

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-17 Thread S.D.Allen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:09:12 -0600, lee in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:18:43PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Yes, and it is different from dselect's own cdrom method. The latter will not work with multiple discs, you have to install the dpkg-multicd package for

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
I think I understand. The expected workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that will be made (including ones that were required by your past changes). If you like it, you confirm that it's OK and aptitude applies

debian installation help

2008-11-16 Thread Srinivasa Ramanujam
hi, the following are the file names which i downloaded from the debian website. debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-2.iso debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-3.iso debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso i downloaded all four of them and wrote in four different dvd's using nero burner. i installed

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-16 Thread S.D.Allen
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:25:09 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: hi, the following are the file names which i downloaded from the debian website. debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-2.iso debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-3.iso debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-16 Thread lee
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25:09PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote: i downloaded all four of them and wrote in four different dvd's using nero burner. i installed debian using first dvd (debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso). after installation, i tried to install packages from

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-16 23:20 +0100, lee wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25:09PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote: i downloaded all four of them and wrote in four different dvd's using nero burner. i installed debian using first dvd (debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso). after installation,

Re: debian installation help

2008-11-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25:09PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote: hi, the following are the file names which i downloaded from the debian website. debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-2.iso debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-3.iso debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso Did you read the

Re: Installation help

2007-12-10 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aumnayan D'Letti wrote: I am installing the latest stable version of Debian (40rl) and am having an issue with how it's seeing my

Installation help

2007-12-07 Thread Aumnayan D'Letti
Hope this is the right mailing list to send this to... if it's not, point me to the right one please. It's been a number of years since I have worked with linux, so some items I believe to be true are not necessarily the case. Keep that in mind when I say something asinine. I am installing the

Re: Installation help

2007-12-07 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aumnayan D'Letti wrote: I am installing the latest stable version of Debian (40rl) and am having an issue with how it's seeing my primary HD. It's set up as the master on the primary IDE chain, which to me

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:09 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: [snip] Or 'sudo dpkg -i .deb' from the cli. Only if sudo is installed and setup properly. If

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:09 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: [snip] Or 'sudo dpkg -i .deb' from

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/12/07 23:18, Galangster wrote: How do i install fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz or debian-user@lists.debian.org fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb i dont kno the first thing about this Don't know the first thing about

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:02:21 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/12/07 23:18, Galangster wrote: How do i install fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz or debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: [snip] Or 'sudo dpkg -i .deb' from the cli. Only if sudo is installed and setup properly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: [snip] Or 'sudo dpkg -i .deb' from the cli. Only if sudo is installed and setup properly. You're right about that. It's one of the first things I did after installation

installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Galangster
How do i install fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz or debian-user@lists.debian.org fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb i dont kno the first thing about this -- Zip In Zip on Out (c ya, peace out, sianara, bye bye)

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 23:18, Galangster wrote: How do i install fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz or debian-user@lists.debian.org fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb i dont kno the first thing about this Don't know the first thing about it? Use Ubuntu. Zip

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-12 Thread Kent West
Galangster wrote: How do i install fglrx-driver_8.31.5.orig.tar.gz or mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org fglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb i dont kno the first thing about this Become root; enter dpkg -i path_tofglrx-control_8.31.5-1_amd64.deb. This assumes that you have an AMD 64-bit

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-23 Thread Xplicit Language
--- Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/06, Xplicit Language [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am in need of someone that has installed wine before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i have synaptic package manager prepared for the newest version of wine, also once it is

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Xplicit Language [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am running sarge 3.1 stable, and in the terminal i have tried su entered my password, then apt-get install the URL, apt-get update the URL, nothing i know of so far is working out, might you have another idea of how i can do it by hand? If I

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-23 Thread Xplicit Language
2. 'apt-get update'. This brings the package database up to date. If you get any errors just try to run the command again. 3. 'apt-get install wine'. This will automatically download the package, including all dependencies and install them. ++ ++ ok i did that and it looks for

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Xplicit Language [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. 'apt-get update'. This brings the package database up to date. If you get any errors just try to run the command again. 3. 'apt-get install wine'. This will automatically download the package, including all dependencies and install

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Xplicit Language [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's easier if you just install 'libxxf86dga1' manually. From a root shell, cd to your 'deb' directory and do 'dpkg -i your-deb-file.deb'. (Hint: you can use tab for autocompletion of the filename). But this might still not be enough and

wine installation help needed

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
i am in need of someone that has installed wine before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i have synaptic package manager prepared for the newest version of wine, also once it is installed, how will i install the .exe files? i get this error message for almost everything, with slight

Re: wine installation help needed

2006-04-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/22/06, Xplicit Language [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am in need of someone that has installed wine before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i have synaptic package manager prepared for the newest version of wine, also once it is installed, how will i install the .exe files? In my

Installation help.

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i would like to know if it's possible to install debian (preferably the unstable one) on a firewire external hard drive. Thanks in advance, MC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation help

2004-09-17 Thread Andrea Vettorello
- Original Message - From: Betty Fullmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:29:03 -0600 Subject: Installation help To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently partitioned my hard disk. I have Windows XP in one and Linux L'Inspire in the other. My question is the following: can I

Installation help

2004-09-16 Thread Betty Fullmer
I recently partitioned my hard disk. I have Windows XP in one and Linux L'Inspire in the other. My question is the following: can I install Debian in the same partition with L'Inspire or do I need to delete that one first? Any help and comments would be appreciated. BB

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-17 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 00:47, Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: Hi All, I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-16 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: Hi All, I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both installation methods hang at the

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:47, Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: [snip] you need a fairly new kernel for SATA, 2.4.21 iwth ac4 patches, I think. If you have a large SATA drive (130GB) you also need

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-15 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Saturday 15 November 2003 02:15, Justin Burke wrote: Hi All, I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both installation methods hang at the same point: Loading kernel modules Detected module

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-15 Thread Erik Steffl
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: Hi All, I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both installation methods hang at the same point: Loading kernel modules Detected module

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-15 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Justin Burke wrote: Hi All, I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both installation methods hang at the same point: Loading kernel modules Detected module

Re: Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 00:09 Subject: Re: Re: gnome installation help Edward, thanks for trying to help, I know I wasn't very specific. I've successfully installed Debian 3.01 woody

Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-14 Thread Justin Burke
Hi All, I could use some help getting Debian installed on a new machine with a SATA drive. I've downloaded CD images for both sarge and sid, and both installation methods hang at the same point: Loading kernel modules Detected module 'ide-probe-mod' for 'Linux IDE probe driver' I have reason

gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my Debian box, a Dell Precision. The Debian command line works great. However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter how many times I try variations on apt-get install . I get an Xserver could not start error... I *am* able to boot to

Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 05:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my Debian box, a Dell Precision. The Debian command line works great. However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter how many times I try variations on apt-get install . I get

Re: Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Edward, thanks for trying to help, I know I wasn't very specific. I've successfully installed Debian 3.01 woody with the 'vanilla' option on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. Everything works at the command line, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, anything. However, I've tried with several video

SSL installation help.

2003-03-12 Thread linux stuff
yes, thank you ... i realized i had omitted the subject and re-sent the message as i understand it, it's not the actually install, which should work fine the way you propose, but the configuration and getting a certificate and stuff like that which is difficult ... anyway, is there perhaps

Re: SSL installation help.

2003-03-12 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:02:00AM -0600, linux stuff wrote: yes, thank you ... i realized i had omitted the subject and re-sent the message as i understand it, it's not the actually install, which should work fine the way you propose, but the configuration and getting a certificate and

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:23:12PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:26:43PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: | Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 10.25 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: | do i just install spamassasin as it comes or do i have to tweak it? | | At least with postfix

spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all this is my post to the group after some time. debain had been working wonderfully. i have read quite some posts on spamassasin. so went to dselect and read up material available on that. i use exim (almost default set-up) and fetchmail (again almost default set-up) for mail

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 10.25 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: hello all this is my post to the group after some time. debain had been working wonderfully. i have read quite some posts on spamassasin. so went to dselect and read up material available on that. i use exim (almost default set-up)

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Matthias Hentges said: Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 10.25 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: hello all this is my post to the group after some time. debain had been working wonderfully. i have read quite some posts on spamassasin. so went to dselect and read up

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Rich Puhek
Stephen Gran wrote: It is. Dman's page is excellent, and if you follow the instructions, you'll have a very nicely working setup very quickly. The only thing I would recommend doing is (if you're using either woody or sarge) is backporting the version from unstable - I have gotten much

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rich Puhek said: Or, add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release woody; and add a mirror for unstable to sources.list then do apt-get update apt-get install unstable/spamassassin should get you the latest packaged SA. Someone is also

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is doable, but the problem is with spamc - it depends on a newer version of libc6 than what is in Woody. It seems to work 100% to use the woody spamc with the unstable spamassassin. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors!

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Rich Puhek
This is doable, but the problem is with spamc - it depends on a newer version of libc6 than what is in Woody. This means that if you want to install the spamc from unstable (which you must to satisfy the Depends: for spamassassin) you have to upgrade libc6 as well. I run Sid on one of my

Re: spamassassin installation help

2002-12-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:26:43PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Die, 2002-12-10 um 10.25 schrieb Sandip P Deshmukh: do i just install spamassasin as it comes or do i have to tweak it? At least with postfix you'll have to integrate SA manually. It should be the same with Exim. You may

[ianlow87@hotmail.com: Installation Help]

2002-05-23 Thread Richard Atterer
Seen on debian-cd. Any idea, anybody? - Forwarded message from Simply Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:47:42 + From: Simply Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org Subject: Installation Help hi, i need help I was installing Debian 2.1 from a book

Re: [ianlow87@hotmail.com: Installation Help]

2002-05-23 Thread dman
: Installation Help | | hi, i need help | | I was installing Debian 2.1 from a book and whilst installing, I reached the ^^^ | could u offer a solution Potato (2.2) is really old. Slink (2.1) is even older. Grab a copy of woody (3.0, basically stable though

Re: [ianlow87@hotmail.com: Installation Help]

2002-05-23 Thread glenlee
] - Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:47:42 + From: Simply Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-cd@lists.debian.org Subject: Installation Help hi, i need help I was installing Debian 2.1 from a book and whilst installing, I reached the part where I had to install the kernal and base. how ever

Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread ming
HI: I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot loader, any

Re: Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread gMan
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:28:22 -0500, ming wrote: HI: I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.

Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread ming
HI: I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot loader,

Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread debianlist
HI: I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment.how can i setup the boot loader,

Re: Need Newbie installation Help~

2002-02-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
ming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI: I have a Desktop computer which already have Win2k pro and Win2k Advanced Server installed as Dual-boot. and there is a Mandrake 8.1 on my hard disk but i use floopy to boot mandrake8.1. I am going to install Debian based on these enveriment. how can i

Re: Installation help [Richard Frovarp]

2001-12-11 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
[I supposse you know fd0 is wired correctly, floppies are fine, etc...] You can want to install copying kernel, root.bin base.tgz and so on to you W2k partition(that doesn't solve the problem, but we will know the root.bin file is sane). -- ---

Installation help

2001-12-11 Thread Richard Frovarp
I posted a request the other day for help on installation and still haven't been able to figure it out still. It fails to even try to read the root disk. The same disk set works on the laptop I have. When trying to install Solaris 8 it reboots on its own after causing a fault. RedHat 7.2

Re: Installation help

2001-12-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
I hope you are talking Debian root disk. I would try without some non essential cards. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:26:20PM -0600, Richard Frovarp wrote: Asus P4T-E (Socket 478) P4 1.7 GHz 1GB RAM Leadtek Winfast 500 TD 3COM 905c *** Creative Live! 5.1 *** Belkin Firewire card Any ideas

Installation help

2001-12-10 Thread Richard Frovarp
I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive. After hitting enter I get this error: request_module [block-major-2]: Root fs not

Re: Installation help

2001-12-10 Thread Michel Loos
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 21:52, Richard Frovarp wrote: I'm looking for some help in installing the stable version of Debian. I am having a problem with it reading the root disk. After loading the rescue disk it prompts for the root disk, but does not read the drive. After hitting enter I get

Re: Zip installation - help with imm, ppa and diagnostic messagees.

2001-07-24 Thread hzi
Mensagem anterior No dia 23/07/01, 05:12:55, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu o seguinte sobre o tema Re: Zip installation - help with imm, ppa and diagnostic messagees.: On 23 Jul 2001, hzi wrote: Hello- I'm having problems installing my Zip. I have it set-up through

Zip installation - help with imm, ppa and diagnostic messagees.

2001-07-23 Thread hzi
Hello- I'm having problems installing my Zip. I have it set-up through a parallel port, and together with a printer, in the customary set-up. I've already configured the /etc/fstab with /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/dos msdos noauto,user 0 0 If I

VS: Zip installation - help with imm, ppa and diagnostic messagees.

2001-07-23 Thread Sami Louko
Hello- I'm having problems installing my Zip. I have it set-up through a parallel port, and together with a printer, in the customary set-up. I've already configured the /etc/fstab with /dev/sda1 /mnt/zip ext2 noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda4 /mnt/dos msdos noauto,user 0 0 -^ ??

Re: Zip installation - help with imm, ppa and diagnostic messagees.

2001-07-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jul 2001, hzi wrote: Hello- I'm having problems installing my Zip. I have it set-up through a parallel port, and together with a printer, in the customary set-up. I've already configured the /etc/fstab with [snip] Before you go ahead with this installation, you might

Re: VS: Zip installation - help with imm, ppa and diagnostic messagees.

2001-07-23 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Sami Louko wrote: siddhi:~# mount /mnt/zip mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) Meaning that /dev/sda1 isn't hard-disk/zip-disk etc. compatible block readable device. There is no disk at all or something like that. There is something

Installation help

2001-02-11 Thread Ty and Marcella BURDEN
I just completed an install of debian 2.2r2 by 3.5 floppy. The machine I installed on was on a Sager notebook (Pentium 66, 16mb ram, 3.5 floppy, 1.4g HD and two PCMCIA card). I did not have any problem installing Debian. It was actually easy. I wanted to install debian using an external PCMCIA

installation help

2001-01-28 Thread David Kaleta
Hi, I recently downloaded the latest CD image for Debian. I am able to boot off of the CD I made with it. The problem I am having is trying to install the kernel and system. I have a Cyrix 686 computer. I disabled the caches as recommended. It is telling me that it cannot find the

installation help

2000-11-30 Thread richardrose
Hello, When attempting to boot Release 2.1 (included in the Debian GNU/Linux New Rider text) from the floppy, my system loads root bin but freezes during the loading linux phase. Can anyone help me?? Thanks, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation help

2000-11-30 Thread Denzil Kelly
What are some of specs of the machine you are trying to install on? Someone recently gave me a few 486's, and I've had the same problem when trying to boot from floppy. These machines were Dell Optiplex XL 575 w/16 MB of RAM. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When attempting to boot

Installation help

2000-09-18 Thread Martin Scott Goldberg
Here's the deal - I have an abit bx62.0 motherboard with an abit hotrodd66 (dma66) adaptor plugged in to a pci slot. I have a memorex 48x atapi cdrom and a 40 gig HD plugged in through the hotrod. The first problem is that the cd will not boot. I have the same problem with Freebsd and Beos cd's

Re: Installation help

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
Martin Scott Goldberg wrote: So I can possibly unhook the 5.25 floppy and fit the CDrom in the connection. i've never heard of a 5.25 floppy hooked to an IDE controller .. :) I need to install it on the space on the 40gig though, so are you saying I should unhook the 40gig from the dma66

Installation help (please)

2000-07-14 Thread Patrick J Draper
I'm trying to install Linux Debian 2.1 onto my machine. It is a PII 350 with a new UDMA 20GBytedrive. I currently use Partition Magic 5.01 pro to manage my partitions which are currently NTFS for NT4 and FAT32 for windows 98 SE. I have read the installation manual for Debian and the

Re: Installation help (please)

2000-07-14 Thread virtanen
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Patrick J Draper wrote: No matter how I partition/set up my drive I or where I create the partition (I have tried primary and logical) get the same error when running the boot.bat file on the Installation CD. Kernel Panic: Cannot Mount Volume. 1) Did you run the

Re: Installation help (please)

2000-07-14 Thread Thomas Guettler
I am not an installation-expert. But why don't you boot from CD? Just say your bios to from it. This worked for me a half your ago. (don't know boot.bat) -- Thomas Guettler Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.interface-business.de Private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation help

2000-04-13 Thread Kent West
David Wright wrote: Quoting Sunil Pandey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 and

Installation help

2000-04-12 Thread Sunil Pandey
This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 and that would not let me boot into dos. can someone suggest a way to do this.

[Fwd: Installation help]

2000-04-12 Thread Vitux
Sunil Pandey wrote: This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 and that would not let me boot into dos. can

Re: Installation help

2000-04-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sunil Pandey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 and that would not let me boot

Re: [Fwd: Installation help]

2000-04-12 Thread Sunil Pandey
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:34:45PM +0200, Vitux wrote: | Sunil Pandey wrote: | | This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related | to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a | way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has

Re: Installation help

2000-04-12 Thread kmself
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 06:30:55PM +0530, Sunil Pandey wrote: This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 and that

quake2 installation help

2000-01-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I need help getting quake2 to install on potato. when I use the quake2/quake2-bin packages, I get errors (see below). Is there a doc that details how to get it installed with debian (preferably using the deb packages)? I really want to start playing quake2 again. Thanks, chris errors: When I

netscape installation help..

1999-08-21 Thread ZEN MYSTIC
i'm having problem with netscape installation..it giving error that one of the libX file is not found.. pls help!! === I DON'T FIGHT MY WAY TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN TO BE A VEGETARIAN--ZEN MYSTIC _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your

Re: netscape installation help..

1999-08-21 Thread Jack Lee
, it would be greatly helpful if next time you can give the problem more details. JAck From: ZEN MYSTIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: netscape installation help.. Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 04:37:00 -0700 (PDT) i'm having problem with netscape installation..it giving error

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