Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the automatically installed information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's automatic attribute? Enjoy! Rick On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: frits wrote: Hello, I have a

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rick Thomas wrote: This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the automatically installed information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's automatic attribute? Enjoy! Rick I must confuse, I don't know what you are talking about. -- Damon L.

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Rick Thomas wrote: This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the automatically installed information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's automatic attribute? Yes. Run $ aptitude search '~i!~M' to get a list of the manually installed

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-30 Thread frits
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:14:01PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: frits wrote: Hello, I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list

keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread frits
Hello, I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list in a clever way? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
frits wrote: Hello, I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list in a clever way? Thanks Frits: get the source.list names for any

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Shuler
On 04/29/2008 01:44 PM, frits wrote: I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list in a clever way? I believe this should get you close -

Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

2008-04-24 Thread Micha
I need to install debian for a friend of mine that got new machine. Apart for the network card driver (which is actually a relative of mine) and the graphics card which is intel instead of nvidia the install should be about the same. I thought to save some headache and just copy over the whole

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

2008-04-24 Thread Oleksii.Dzhulai
The best way to copy whole partition is when it is offline (not used) Boot both laptops from live-cd's (for example knoppix) and do like described in this article dd if=/dev/hda1|nc 192.168.1.1 - on sending laptop nc -l -p |dd of=/dev/hda1 - on receiving one If it seems difficult then

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

2008-04-24 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:59:37PM +0300, Micha wrote: Since these are two laptops, moving the hardrive over won't work so I need to do it over the network. What would be the best way to do this? Should I boot the new laptop with ubuntu or something or do a base debian install? you can boot

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

2008-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 06:59, Micha wrote: I need to install debian for a friend of mine that got new machine. Apart for the network card driver (which is actually a relative of mine) and the graphics That's an amusing image... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

2008-04-24 Thread Pol Hallen
I thought to save some headache and just copy over the whole linux partition and just fix up the small tidbits (network driver, graphic driver and fstab). U can use: the debian live cd and dd command or systemrescuecd, knoppix, etc. Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Copying a complete root parition over a network cable for a new install

2008-04-24 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Oleksii.Dzhulai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best way to copy whole partition is when it is offline (not used) Boot both laptops from live-cd's (for example knoppix) and do like described in this article dd if=/dev/hda1|nc 192.168.1.1 - on sending laptop

New install from businesscard distro.

2007-09-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I successfully installed Debian from the latest business card iso. I chose the networkless option, the only one that works. That is the good news. But here is the bad news. 1. When chose the newtworked install option it always died with the message, trying to write to a read-only file. The file

Re: New install from businesscard distro.

2007-09-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 21, 2:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I successfully installed Debian from the latest business card iso. I chose the networkless option, the only one that works. That is the good news. But here is the bad news. 1. When chose the newtworked install option it always

Re: New install from businesscard distro.

2007-09-21 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Sep 21, 2:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- 4. On startup my eth0 card which is connected to the internet isn't activated by dhcpcd. I can click on the little icon in the upper right corner of

Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have built a Debian Etch partition from the buisness card cdr mainly so I can use/upgrade programs that depend on Gnome libraries. I tried an Ubuntu install earlier. Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a

Re: Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I sign on and then it does another hard boot ultimaely preenting me the rub menu again. .

Re: Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I sign on and then it does

Re: Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:27:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from

(solved) Re: new drive = new install?

2007-08-29 Thread David A.
What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and copy everything from the old one? Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available, one being

Re: (solved) Re: new drive = new install?

2007-08-29 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* David A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-08-29 What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and copy everything from the old one? Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available,

new drive = new install?

2007-08-24 Thread David A.
Hi, I've bought a samsung solid state drive, 8gb, to replace my HD in my silent home server. What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and copy everything from the old one? As I said, small home

Re: new drive = new install?

2007-08-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
David A.: What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and copy everything from the old one? Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available, one being

PGP Key after new install

2007-04-17 Thread Michael Pobega
How do I go about retaining my GPG/PGP key after a reinstall of Debian? I used to have it so that my GPG key would automatically ask me to sign when replying to any email, but now I don't have my GPG key anymore. Should I generate a new key, or should I use the old one? How would I go about

Re: PGP Key after new install

2007-04-17 Thread Siju George
On 4/17/07, Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about retaining my GPG/PGP key after a reinstall of Debian? I used to have it so that my GPG key would automatically ask me to sign when replying to any email, but now I don't have my GPG key anymore. Should I generate a new key,

New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi All, I Jut bought a new PC (Aldi/Medion-8818). It runs fine with its preinstalled Windows Media Edition. I tried a couple of recent Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and both failed to fully recognize my hardware. Most notably the SATA disks were not seen. Before I

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi All, I Jut bought a new PC (Aldi/Medion-8818). It runs fine with its preinstalled Windows Media Edition. I tried a couple of recent Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and both failed to fully recognize my hardware. Most notably the SATA

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi All, I Jut bought a new PC (Aldi/Medion-8818). It runs fine with its preinstalled Windows Media Edition. I tried a couple of recent Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and both failed to fully recognize my hardware. Most notably the SATA

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Bluesman
Hi Mauro, Please sorry for my English... I tried a couple of recent Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and both failed to fully recognize my hardware. Most notably the SATA disks were not seen. I have installed Ubuntu 6.06 on a machine with SATA disk and it's

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Mauro Condarelli
== Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:36:39 -0300 From: Bluesman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New PC, new install, new problems! == Hi Mauro, Please sorry for my English... I tried a couple of recent Linux live

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi All, I Jut bought a new PC (Aldi/Medion-8818). It runs fine with its preinstalled Windows Media Edition. I tried a couple of recent Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and both failed to fully recognize my

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Truer words were never spoken, but... It is extremely difficult to get before the purchase answers of more recent mobo's. E.g. try to get a Linux perspective from any of the hundreds of boards available thru NewEgg. You end up in an unending search of mobo

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
PS: Most of my PCs I have bought at a small local store. I usually look for the cheaper range of hardware and so far haven't had any problems installing debian. -- Plus I always know: if it doesn't work I could bring the machine back to the store... Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: New PC, new install, new problems!

2006-12-05 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:49:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Truer words were never spoken, but... It is extremely difficult to get before the purchase answers of more recent mobo's. E.g. try to get a Linux perspective from any of the hundreds of boards available thru NewEgg. You

Etch new install can´t see my serial mouse

2006-09-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg won´t load complaining 'no core pointer'.I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good.I also tried to locate my mouse, doing: cat /dev/input/mice (which is the suggested location, by

Re: Etch new install can?t see my serial mouse

2006-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:47:21AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg won?t load complaining 'no core pointer'. I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good. I also tried to locate my mouse, doing:

Re: Etch new install can´t see my serial mouse

2006-09-29 Thread Evgeny M. Zubok
Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just installed a brand new etch on a athlon2400. Mouse is serial and xorg won´t load complaining 'no core pointer'. I tried both imps2 and explore-something (the only 2 options), but no good. I also tried to locate my mouse, doing: cat /dev/input/mice

Re: Etch new install can´t see my serial mouse

2006-09-29 Thread Evgeny M. Zubok
I plug my old serial mouse with Microsoft protocol into COM1 (ttyS0). Here is my configuration: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMicrosoft Option Device /dev/ttyS0 Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout50

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-03-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-02-25 17:16:25, schrieb Curt Howland: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been reading your notes to debian-users with interest, and I'd like to put in .02 FRNs or so. I realize that people have suggested lots of package management tools, I would like to suggest

new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Derek M Wickersham
Hi Folks, Brand new convert from Redhat to Debian 3.1. Just about have everything set up except for the printer. So I'm trying to figure out how to get my printer recognized and working. I loaded the Printing Manager utility and it shows I'm using the Generic UNIX LPD Print System. Under

Re: new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
You might want to run printconf first. Do this: apt-get install printconf Then go back to run your CUPS installation. --- Derek M Wickersham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Brand new convert from Redhat to Debian 3.1. Just about have everything set up except for the printer. So

Re: new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Derek M Wickersham
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:50 pm, Clyde Wilson wrote: You might want to run printconf first. Do this: apt-get install printconf OK, did that, and it installed...then got this at the end: Printer on parallel:/dev/lp0 was detected by Debian using

Re: new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Derek M Wickersham
Got it working now. I ended up uninstalling CUPS and printconf, then reinstalling both. Then I went into the Printing Manager and changed the system to CUPS. Since this time around printconf found my printer, it is being displayed as detected. Printed a test page and it works! Thank you!

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the sarge distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been reading your notes to debian-users with interest, and I'd like to put in .02 FRNs or so. I realize that people have suggested lots of package management tools, I would like to suggest dselect. The granularity of control is greater, in my

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the sarge distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
There are other tools for managing software that are front ends to apt. I primarily use aptitude. It is powerful interactive, and available from the command line. It will take some learning though so you will need to read a significant part of the manual to use it effectively. synaptic is

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the sarge distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:54 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I should 1) Add the 14 CD's and the two update CD's via apt-cdrom add, 2) activate all sources in Synaptic, 3) run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and I'll have an up-to-date system. You need at least: deb

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I should 1) Add the 14 CD's

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:12:12 -0700 Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also did my first reinstall and watchd it closely. It is said there are Debian users than didn't reinstall in 10 (ten) years. Debian supports direct upgrading from one release to another (stable or not). I remember from

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:12:12PM -0700, Charles wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700

New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread Charles
I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have network

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the sarge distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
the last thing: to find stuff: apt-cache search keyword cheers, Kev and... apt-cache show package to show a bit more detailed stuff ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-22 Thread Yani Copas
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:50:34 -0500 Roseland, Winton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB

New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-20 Thread Roseland, Winton
I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Knoppix version. I was a

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-20 Thread Chinook
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my

Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo

RE: SOLVED New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Ed Young
Message- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:06 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's

New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a /dev/input/mice no device found error. I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now when I reboot, X starts but still no mouse. I've run dpkg

Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a /dev/input/mice no device found error. I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules

RE: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:06 PM To: Ed Young Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1

Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running

new install

2005-12-27 Thread ajtim
Hi! I have now Etch on my system but i want to reinstall with reiser file system. Is it possible that I choose KDE and not GNOME, which is default? Default kernel is 2.6.12-386. Is it possible to install 2.6.14-686? Thanks, Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: new install

2005-12-27 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! I have now Etch on my system but i want to reinstall with reiser file system. If you have GRUB you could: 1) back up partition 2) format with reiserFS 3) restore partition Is it possible that I choose KDE and not GNOME, which is default?

Re: new install

2005-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:32:04 +0100 Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/12/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! I have now Etch on my system but i want to reinstall with reiser file system. If you have GRUB you could: 1) back up partition 2) format with reiserFS 3)

Re: Newbie - 3.1r0a - locale problem on new install

2005-11-21 Thread loos
Em Dom, 2005-11-20 às 16:34 -0800, Eric Miller escreveu: Hello Debian Users: Again, all seemed to go well until it got to This program will now walk you through the process of setting up . . . Then I got three error messages that repeated (it seemed to be in a loop) - First - 13

Newbie - 3.1r0a - locale problem on new install

2005-11-20 Thread Eric Miller
Hello Debian Users: I haven't seen this on the FAQ or any of the recent messages that I have found. I'm trying to recycle an old NEC Pentium 200 with 128Mb of RAM so I can experiment with Linux. I am not trying to dual boot or anything fancy - Debian will have the whole disk. loaded up Debian

Re: New install, no desktop

2005-09-22 Thread MJD
Just try installing kde or gnome. Those are meta packages that will install a fully functional desktop.On 9/21/05, ke6isf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: Do I actually have a desktop installed?And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list, and

New install, no desktop

2005-09-21 Thread Albert
I just installed Debian 3.1 using the minimum CD and the net. I selected desktop for installation, even though there was no option for gnome, kde, or etc. I also opted to not install grub, because I already had grub installed handling three other distributions and I didn't want the installer

Re: New install, no desktop

2005-09-21 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: Do I actually have a desktop installed? And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list, and do 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. If that doesn't work, you'll need to install the xserver package - and probably gnome or KDE while

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-06 Thread jeroen
Could have found what's causing the issue. I have no idea what he's talking about though... Looking in to it now, but any help is appreciated. Jeroen --- start quote --- Framebuffer/X notes New - I managed to replace the atyfb code of 2.4.27 with the one of 2.4.16. This means

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-06 Thread jeroen
This is starting to look like a blog ;) I installed the kernel found on the previously mentioned page (http:// gefechtsdienst.de/uman/c1ve-general.html). It doesn't look really nice. Full screen console is built in but is shifted (not placed correctly, with white band down the screen).

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-06 Thread jeroen
continuing blog i installed the x-server from woody, x starts up fine now, jeej! i guess this issue is closed, unless this was a bad idea. Thx for reading my ramblings, Jeroen On 06 Sep 2005, at 21:06, jeroen wrote: This is starting to look like a blog ;) I installed the kernel found on the

starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so thx debian! I

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Lupton
jeroen wrote: Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
jeroen wrote: I used apt to get me the files i needed during the installation (i did have to do an 'ifup -a' to get the network up - and still have to after every reboot - but that's slightly OT here). Take a look at /etc/network/interfaces (also man interfaces for examples). Once

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: jeroen wrote: With my limited knowledge i though i could have forgotten to add a window manager I don't think so; this looks like a video sync -type issue. You can double-check this possibility by installing another wm (aptitude install icewm, etc), or make sure

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns a command not found On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:25, Kent West wrote: jeroen wrote: I used apt to get me the

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Sorry if this came in double, the resend i did might have tricked your mail rules (it did trick mine) Jeroen On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I finally installed my first Debian system earlier this morning and I am very pleased with it. The install was flawless, but it was not quite as easy as I thought because there were plenty more questions AFTER

New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I finally installed my first Debian system earlier this morning and I am very pleased with it. The install was flawless, but it was not quite as easy as I thought because there were plenty more questions AFTER the downloading of packages than I thought. But all is well. However,

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Sher wrote: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed? Try lspci or lspci -v or even

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed? lspci -v or just lspci . man

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Benjamin Sher: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed? I am not sure whether it is what

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/07/05 16:31), Kent West wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they

friends new install

2005-07-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I just re-installed Sarge for an older lady.. She/I screwed something up, so the re-install was necessary. Now, when I run synaptic, as either root or sudo, and I select any package, I get the following error message; Package not authenticated I checked my install, things look the same. I've

Re: friends new install

2005-07-03 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:13:47 -0700 Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just re-installed Sarge for an older lady.. She/I screwed something up, so the re-install was necessary. Now, when I run synaptic, as either root or sudo, and I select any package, I get the following error

Re: friends new install

2005-07-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:48:42 +0200 John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:13:47 -0700 Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just re-installed Sarge for an older lady.. She/I screwed something up, so the re-install was necessary. Now, when I run synaptic, as

Sarge (3.10) New Install - Grub problem

2005-06-22 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I was running woody on my hda disk (120GB). I got a new disk 20GB(hdb). So I thought I would run Sarge on hdb, and mount my woody disk as required to get any files I needed. I therefore do not need dual boot. I can install Sarge (3.10) fine but then I get to the question of where to

Re: Sarge (3.10) New Install - Grub problem

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: Hi I was running woody on my hda disk (120GB). I got a new disk 20GB(hdb). So I thought I would run Sarge on hdb, and mount my woody disk as required to get any files I needed. I therefore do not need dual boot. I can

New install doesn't see DHCP

2005-06-21 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I just tried a new Sarge install here at my job this time. Now I'm having a different problem. The installer seems to execute? dhcp connections alright, at least on the initial cd install (it for instance, gets the domain name correct in the guess for that value, and ifconfig gives an ip

RE: New install doesn't see DHCP

2005-06-21 Thread peter green
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: New install doesn't see DHCP I just tried a new Sarge install here at my job this time. Now I'm having a different problem. The installer seems to execute? dhcp connections alright, at least on the initial cd install

New install with HDD from MAXTOR SATA/150 controller

2004-10-21 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I have an older computer (PII) but with enough RAM and a HDD from 120 GB connected via an addon MAXTOR SATA/150 card. When i boot, the computer sees the sata pci card AND the hdd. Then i install debian and he also sees the promise chipset from the card but the modules or whatever or not

Please help. New install can't compile

2004-08-20 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just installed Debian Sarge on a laptop. I have installed development tools including gcc and g++. When I try to compile a program using gcc, I get the error message that it can't execute cc1plus because there is no such program. I thought

Re: Please help. New install can't compile

2004-08-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:05, Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just installed Debian Sarge on a laptop. I have installed development tools including gcc and g++. When I try to compile a program using gcc, I get the error message that it can't

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