First, thanks to the 10 people (you know who you are) that provided me
with useful information regarding my own local mirror on my LAN. I
printed out all your correspondence -- thanks!. It appears I began with
some false assumptions even though I had read through the FAQ. Over
about a week o
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:47:03PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > aptitude install python
> >
> > and away it goes... when done you have python.
> >
> > how about tcl?
> >
> > apt-cache search tcl
> >
> > this produces
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> aptitude install python
>
> and away it goes... when done you have python.
>
> how about tcl?
>
> apt-cache search tcl
>
> this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that
> down by searching just the n
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Don't forget that 'aptitude search tcl' also searches only packages
> names.
The ara and xara packages allow for keyword searching in the
description field. I use xara-gtk in the simple mode, and it has an
easy form based interface for searching.
--
Carl Jo
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:03:17 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> how about tcl?
>
> apt-cache search tcl
>
> this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that
> down by searching just the names of packages and not their
> descriptions
>
> apt-cache
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
[...]
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Could I simply do an FTP of some
> Debian mirror? What I don't like about this FTP idea or the installer
> as far as that goes is that many of the applications I want are not
> available exc
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
> download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
> Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
> understand that all binary
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 05:50:46PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
[huge snip]
Sorry for not trimming. Finger slipped.
Doug.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
> download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
> Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
> understand that all binary
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:35:25 -0600
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Regarding binaries: The Debian archive typically includes both source
> and binary for each package, but the network installer assumes that
> you can do without the source until the base system is running.
* Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 16:00]:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
...
> In other words, I need a Debian system up and running (which I don't
> have at the present time) and even then the packaged binaries and
> sources will be unpacked and placed in
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:55:44 -0700
Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
The Debian archive is huge and it is not trivial to set-up. There is a
method to use CD images as a pseudo-mirror, though I don't think this
is the best way for you (see below). Check this:
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/in
I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
understand that all binary files are considered to be a "package" sort
of wrapped with d
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:18 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org
to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that
anymore although I did find the multiple iso images.
I was interested in the etch network CDRO
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:18 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org
> to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that
> anymore although I did find the multiple iso images.
>
> I was interested in the e
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org
> to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that
> anymore although I did find the multiple iso images.
>
> I was interested in the etch network CDROM because it contain
At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org
to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that
anymore although I did find the multiple iso images.
I was interested in the etch network CDROM because it contained
one of the latest kernels a
Gil Citro wrote:
[...]
Also, it doesn't explain how to check a mirror before installing the
local copy of the package. I guess I could install the local copy and
the do an update from a mirror, but I'm guessing that's also not the
best way.
[...]
Aptitude will do this automatically for you. If
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:38:44PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote:
> On 4/25/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > The poster said in the original post that by "full" install he doesn't
> > mean every possible Debian package, just "as if I'd installed everything
> > from
> > the DVD".
> >
On 4/25/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The poster said in the original post that by "full" install he doesn't
> mean every possible Debian package, just "as if I'd installed everything from
> the DVD".
>
> And the reason given was, if I understood correctly, was to help avoid
> de
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 08:26, Gil Citro wrote:
> Second, what I'd like to do is wind up with a full install of Sarge,
> as if I'd installed everything from the DVD.
What you ask for does not exist. Debian has a concept of a minimum install,
and a customized install. There is no full install b
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 03:19:38PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Gil Citro wrote:
>
> >Second, what I'd like to do is wind up with a full install of Sarge,
> >as if I'd installed everything from the DVD. I have both DVDs from the
> >3.1r1 DVD set. Is there a way to install everything from the DVD
> >
Gil Citro wrote:
Second, what I'd like to do is wind up with a full install of Sarge,
as if I'd installed everything from the DVD. I have both DVDs from the
3.1r1 DVD set. Is there a way to install everything from the DVD
that's not already installed? I'm new to Debian and not sure how to do
thi
I was having trouble installing Debian on an HP dx5150, which uses an
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor. I first tried the AMD64 3.1r0a install
DVD, but whichever 2.6.x kernel it came with didn't support SATA, and
I only had a SATA hard drive. I was able to do a network install with
the CD
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 04:44 schrieb Liu Zhen:
[...]
> I want to use the ISOs in my LAN to continue the install, but I can not
> figure out how to setup a correct http/ftp path to enable the install.
> Does anybody know how to setup a http/ftp server to enable a install in
> LAN? Thank you.
Liu Zhen wrote:
> I have several server to administrate, and I'm expected to administrate
> more servers in the recent future.
> I want to install debian3.1_r0a-ia64 to these servers.
> I have downloaded cd ISOs from debian, and placed these ISOs on a http/ftp
> server in my lan.
> I can boot a ser
Hi,
I have several server to administrate, and I'm expected to administrate more servers in the recent future.
I want to install debian3.1_r0a-ia64 to these servers.
I have downloaded cd ISOs from debian, and placed these ISOs on a http/ftp server in my lan.
I can boot a server using debian's boot
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:04:44PM -0400, Dick Steflik wrote:
>
> Can anyone help me out.
>
Certainly, which way did you come in. :-)
Sorry.
You could try installing woody again, I mean it was once working right?,
using the 20 woody floppies archived somewhere. Then upgrade over net.
I've do
steflik wrote:
> Kent,
> Woody isn't on the system, it "was" on the system until I
> repartitioned the harddrive and formatted it.
> The question is really... is there a problem with the net-driver
> diskette as it hangs when trying to load the yenta socket driver?
>
> Dick Steflik
>
Ah, misunders
Robert Vangel wrote:
>Dick Steflik wrote:
>
>
>>I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install
>>of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this
>>by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM.
>>
>>
>
>Is there no network access on the lapto
Dick Steflik wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install
> of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this
> by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. I've made the four
> floppies from the current release (and the march one also),
I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install
of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this
by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. I've made the four
floppies from the current release (and the march one also), when I boot
the boot disk, g
I wrote:
If you have a drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB) then you must use a 2.6
kernel to avoid disk addresses wrapping around beyond that point.
Sorry, I got this wrong. 2.4 should be fine as well, so I don't know
what the problem might have been.
Ben.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT
Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
Hello,
My question concerns the correct course of action when installing
Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is
through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver
provided by nVidia at
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64
Hello,
My question concerns the correct course of action when installing
Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is
through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver
provided by nVidia at
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0292
without ha
Start by reading the Network Configuration chapter of the Debian
Reference. It is available online here:
http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html
--
Thomas Hood
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P
Elder C. Alan Hungerford wrote:
I am trying to do a network install of Woody on an old p2 so that I
can turn it into a glorified mp3 player for my company’s on hold music
and messages. I can get as far as rebooting the machine through
setting up the system clock and such. But it seems that when
I am trying to do a network install of
Woody on an old p2 so that I can turn it into a glorified mp3 player for my
company’s on hold music and messages. I can get as far as rebooting
the machine through setting up the system clock and such. But it seems
that when it reboots it loses its
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:50:28PM -0500, Robert Maynord wrote:
> I have been experimenting with the the Beta 4 network install that uses
> KDE 3.2. All seems to go well, until I log in as a user. The user
> desktop seems to work fine, except for Konsole (or a terminal in Gnome
I have been experimenting with the the Beta 4 network install that uses
KDE 3.2. All seems to go well, until I log in as a user. The user
desktop seems to work fine, except for Konsole (or a terminal in Gnome -
same problem). Konsole loads OK, but has no prompt! In other words, I
am unable
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:57:11PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:56:30PM -0800, John Christian said
> >
> > So ... I can't seem to pass the corrupt (MD5?) tests on both the ISO
> > images and http mirrors.
>
> Your ISO has a incorrect md5sum? That means the image is corrup
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:56:30PM -0800, John Christian said
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install 'woody' on a i386 machine, booting and otherwise
> prepping from the "compact-3.0.23-netinst.iso" image. Now, I've tried
> the standard woody install as well with the same problem, leading me to
>
Hello,
I'm trying to install 'woody' on a i386 machine, booting and otherwise
prepping from the "compact-3.0.23-netinst.iso" image. Now, I've tried
the standard woody install as well with the same problem, leading me to
believe it's not something with my network config.
So ... I can't seem to
Thanks for your helpful response.
Here's some output from the different troubleshooting attempts.
- /etc/init.d/networking stop -- resulted in this: "SIOCDELRT: No
such device"
- running "mii-tool" as root resulted in this: "No MII interfaces
found"
- bringing up interface manually with ifup
Danny O'Brien wrote:
Kernel ver. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1.
There goes that idea.
A friend replied that he also had trouble with getting Linux to
recognize the built-in Ethernet in his VA FullOn box, and his solution
was to install a separate NIC. I wonder if that's why VA originally
insisted on the
Reposting to Debian-User, so that you can get suggestions from others
that might be more knowledgeable than me, and so that people having the
same issue in the future might benefit from this discussion being archived.
See below for more info:
Danny O'Brien wrote:
Thanks for your helpful respon
Danny O'Brien wrote:
I'm attempting to rebuild a VA FullOn 2200 web server with the Debian
3.0r1 "woody" release. To install, I pulled the machine off the DMZ,
then returned it to the DMZ after installation was complete.
Although the installation was successful and the installer did see the
ne
Hello -- new to the list and grateful it's here. I hope that this is an
appropriate posting.
I'm attempting to rebuild a VA FullOn 2200 web server with the Debian
3.0r1 "woody" release. To install, I pulled the machine off the DMZ,
then returned it to the DMZ after installation was complete.
A
Hello Jerome!
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:27:03PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote:
I've only seen a forcedeth patch for the 2.6 kernel. Assuming it works
with 2.4 kernel:
Just a small sidenote:
In a parallel thread I saw references to the forcedeth patches for 2.4
and 2.6 at
http://www.hailfinger.org/
obo for a couple of months new and simply haven't
> gotten around to installing it, since it seemed like such a hassle. I'm
> re-installing Woody soon as well (I broke something in the current
> install) and figured I'd do both tasks at the same time.
>
> How can I d
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Then you did nat have an nForce ethernet card. The nForce ethernet card
requires a binary driver from nVidia, or the forcedeth driver (only
developed in the last few weeks).
I'm using an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MB, which uses the nForce chipset and has
2 built-in NICs. One of t
Scarletdown wrote:
Joseph Jones wrote:
I am very much a newbie, I'm at about the level where I'm starting to
mess with backports and can compile my own kernel as per the
instructions in the newbiedoc (just).
How can I do a network install of Woody on an nForce 2 motherboard?
I&#x
Joseph Jones wrote:
I am very much a newbie, I'm at about the level where I'm starting to
mess with backports and can compile my own kernel as per the
instructions in the newbiedoc (just).
How can I do a network install of Woody on an nForce 2 motherboard? I'm
guessing I would
Jamin W. Collins wrote:
I wasn't aware of the forcedeth patch, so I have no experience with it.
However, I will be looking into trying it soon.
forcedeth is working perfectly for me. It is in the -mm series of
patches to 2.6, or you can search for a 2.4 patch if you like.
-Roberto
signature.asc
und to installing it, since it seemed like such a hassle. I'm
re-installing Woody soon as well (I broke something in the current
install) and figured I'd do both tasks at the same time.
How can I do a network install of Woody on an nForce 2 motherboard? I'm
guessing I would need to
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:48:17AM +, Joseph Jones wrote:
>
> How can I do a network install of Woody on an nForce 2 motherboard?
> I'm guessing I would need to compile a kernel with the forcedeth
> patch. How do I do this, if possible, with the 2.4.20 kernel (which is
>
since it seemed like such a hassle. I'm
re-installing Woody soon as well (I broke something in the current
install) and figured I'd do both tasks at the same time.
How can I do a network install of Woody on an nForce 2 motherboard? I'm
guessing I would need to compile a kernel wit
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:37AM -0600, James Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin
> > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install wou
on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:37AM -0600, James Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin
> connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be
> the best option for them.
You don't get
mething like 300MB *installed*. Now,
given that, what is the feasibility of doing this over dialup? What took
you 36 hours - i.e., upgrading what kind of system? Did you have KDE and
other heavyweight apps installed? Does your OS take up a gig or more of
HD space? I think this is an important
; > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be
> >
> > Isn't cheapbytes still out there? The last time I bought from them,
> > shipping cost more than the disks.
> >
> > Alternatively, can't you get access to a mach
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:52:06 -0700
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Incoming from James Miller:
> > I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin
> > connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would
> -Original Message-
> From: James Miller
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: network install via dialup?
>
>
> I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin
> connection to the '
Incoming from James Miller:
> I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin
> connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be
Isn't cheapbytes still out there? The last time I bought from them,
shipping cost more than the
I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin
connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be
the best option for them. Is it reasonable to expect them to be able to
do a network install over dialup? I should also explain that this will b
er 1- wrap your lines at about 72 characters.
> How I use my current network install CD (which defaults to stable) to
> install the testing distribution? I've tried editing the sources
> list, changing "stable" to "testing" on each line, but my success has
> been
I am new to Debian and a relative novice with Linux. I want to install the testing
distribution on an IBM Pentium II (model 6285-66U, 384 ram, plenty of disk
space, 4MB S3 on the motherboard).
How I use my current network install CD (which defaults to stable) to install the
testing
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:02:06AM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> I need to downgrade from testing to stable on my laptop. THis seems
> about impossible because of packages that were split, e.g. debianutils
> split off coreutils. Trying to downgrade debianutils fails because it
> tries to over
I need to downgrade from testing to stable on my laptop. THis seems
about impossible because of packages that were split, e.g. debianutils
split off coreutils. Trying to downgrade debianutils fails because it
tries to overwrite /bin/readline which is now in coreutils. If anyone
knows how to do t
Am Sam, 2003-03-08 um 05.49 schrieb Bill Marcum:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:56:20PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> > Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton:
> > > Please help-
> > >
> > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100)
> > > using my network. I
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:56:20PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton:
> > Please help-
> >
> > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100)
> > using my network. I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic that the setup utility
> > is not
Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton:
> Please help-
>
> I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100)
> using my network. I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic that the setup utility
> is not recognizing. I enabled pcmcia support for the kernel (and the
> led's on the
Please help-
I am trying to install Debian on
my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) using my network. I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic
that the setup utility is not recognizing. I enabled pcmcia support for
the kernel (and the led's on the dongle lit up) but I am getting no love when it
comes
Hi,
i've installed and configured several debian boxes but
today it was the first time the network part of the installation failed.
I only installed the base part and first wanted to get the network
up and running. Nothing seemed configured which seems logical
since it failed during installation.
m
> comes when I try to do the "base system install". I'm using the
> network install method. It successfully downloads all packages, and
> then as soon as it's finished downloading, pops up a message box
> reading "dbootstrap exited with an error (exit status
Nicholas Avenell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --snip-- <
...where my network card isn't there. Or, rather, the driver of my
network card isn't there. The driver it uses is 8139cp (or 8139too, it
doesn't matter). The question is how did it contact my DHCP server,
firewall, the FTP server and ever
I'm attempting an install of Woody over the internet. I've got the bf2.4
floppy set, booted into the installer, and got to the stage where it
needed to configure the network settings to get onto the internet.
This done, it went and fetched it's files, and we went on to the Install
Modules screen...
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:09, McGillan, Patrick wrote:
> My preferred method, and I've used it twice in recent days, is to unplug
> from the network before the finish of the install. The program crashes out
> with a minimal install. Then I do these steps;
>
> plug the network back in
> edit '/etc/
> A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the
> details spelled out? Are we talking installing from a running
> machine? Already network enabled? My situation is that I have 2
> desktops before me. A full well used redhat 7.1 on one machine and A
>
said Harry Putnam (on 2002-02-28),
> A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the
> details spelled out? Are we talking installing from a running
> machine? Already network enabled? My situation is that I have 2
> desktops before me. A full well used redha
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Rob Park wrote:
...
| I _am_ able to ping the server correctly, and the network connection
| does work because it downloads a bunch of other files first. I get this
| problem when I
ular basis :)
Anyway, I'm doing a network install of Debian. Everything goes smoothly,
until it tries to download "findutils" (IIRC). It's during the base
installation, I think, but definitely before the first reboot and before
I actually get to choose which packages I want.
I'm not sure if this the right place to report woody installation
problems, but here goes anyway.
Debian Newbie here.
I installed from the woody floppies of last week. I selected a PCMCIA
network install, and configured by dhcp. Everything went swell until I
rebooted for stage 2. At
Is it all just the ny stuff nuking the net or what? I"m trying to install
woody over the net and it keeps hanging up on certain files. I can ctrl-c
and start it up again, sometimes it'll continue, sometimes it won't. I
tried to point to different mirrors, but no change. (only 4 mirrors resol
High,
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I like Debian.
>
> And for that matter. I'd like to take my home machine in to the same rj45
> for faster updates/upgrades. How can I make that ppp-installed Debian box
> access the intenet via nic?
>
>
If you have a gatewa
Greetings;
I like Debian.
I have at home a computer I installed Debian from floppy. And I now connect
to the internet via ppp with no problem. Unfortunately the software
installation
is kind of slow.
So for a second computer I found T1/T2 access and after the floppy install
I upgraded via the
Howdy,
is there any way to automaticaly install debian over the network?
I don't mean installing the base with a number of floppies and then
installing the rest by ftp. I'd prefer something like Kickstart (or what's
the name for it) from Redhat where everything is done automaticaly.
That would ma
101 - 187 of 187 matches
Mail list logo
