Some of the packages on the Debian Cd are outdated. Is there anyway I can
put in a source when I install Debian that will download all the newest
ones? I have a fairly fast connection.
Thanks,
Brett
you can edit you /etc/apt/sources.list. Try adding/editing:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
If you don't want to use unstable, change it to stable.
I believe that I understood you question correctly? If not, well,
correct me.
Brett == Brett Fowlkes [EMAIL
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:46:51PM -0700, Brett Fowlkes wrote:
Some of the packages on the Debian Cd are outdated. Is there anyway I can
put in a source when I install Debian that will download all the newest
ones? I have a fairly fast connection.
Exactly what apt-get does best. Add
I am trying to install debian GNU/Linux 2.1, and the installation
program will not recognize my SCSI drive.
I have a advansys scsi adapter model ABP-3925-00 (ABP-9xxU)pnp.
This is my secound drive, my primary is IDE, and this is the only
one it will recognize. I don't want to wipe out the data
Weinheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new install network problem
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org,
debian-68k@lists.debian.org
I just installed the debian base system on a mac
centris 610 (68040). I configured it for network
connection using parameters that worked in macos
with
the same
I'm trying to install debian packages with dselect,
and ftp fails to connect on 'update available
packages' step. Can someone look at my boot message
and network configuration files and tell me why my
network isn't working, please?
data...
Thanks for posting your problem three times.
Jan
I just installed the debian base system on a mac
centris 610 (68040). I configured it for network
connection using parameters that worked in macos with
the same interface. Linux recognizes the interface on
boot and ifconfig, route, /etc/init.d/network all look
fine. I can't ping any other machines
Resending. Sorry if this is a duplicate. Not sure if
the last one came through, because I haven't seen it
on either list. (new subscriber)
--- Roger Weinheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:34:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Roger Weinheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new install
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:24:07PM +, Jeremy Gunter wrote:
Hello,
I have just installed slink onto a new 4GB hard disk (the 2GB that was
in
it failed last week). Lilo does not seem to write the boot sector to the
disk, however. When I try to boot from the disk it says that there
Hello,
I have just installed slink onto a new 4GB hard disk (the 2GB that was
in
it failed last week). Lilo does not seem to write the boot sector to the
disk, however. When I try to boot from the disk it says that there is no
operation system. When I run Lilo it appears to function
Try this:
1) find out what irq and i/o address the card is using. If it's a PnP, use
whatever setup software/jumper is needed to force it into a free irq and
i/o address
2) edit /etc/modules so that it contains
ne.o io=0x240,irq=10 (using whatever io and irq that you set the card to)
and
/* newbie alert */
Okay, so I've got a 486, complete with fd0, hda, and a NetGear EA201 ISA
network card (NE2000 compatible). To connect to the network, I have to
use DHCP (or at least, that's what they tell me). I couldn't figure out
how to use DHCP in the slink install, so I used floppies for
):
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:18:42 -0300
From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Subject: Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts
Hi all.
I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware
within it:
a sound board, modem, video, ...
but the software is for Windows and with few documentation...
I have some doubts:
1) My old modem worked only with isapnp and then setserial.
How to
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi all.
I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware
within it:
a sound board, modem, video, ...
but the software is for Windows and with few documentation...
I have some doubts:
1)
Hi,
thanks for your time...
Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi all.
I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware
within it:
a sound board, modem, video, ...
but the software is
Hi,
first thanks for your time.
Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
Hi,
Hi all.
I bought an AMD K6 250 and it seems to come with a lot of hardware
within it:
a sound board, modem, video, ...
but the software is for Windows and with few documentation...
that's
One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware
that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had
copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386
CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing from
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't
change,
because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable
are
changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you
I am about to buy a 6GB HDD to supplement the two full 1.6GB HDDs I have, and
then I plan to load slink on my system. I have usually bought the CDs, but
the resellers I have seen on the net don't seem to include the non-free or
non-US, and besides, loading a portion of the total package (even if
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:19:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am about to buy a 6GB HDD to supplement the two full 1.6GB HDDs I have, and
then I plan to load slink on my system. I have usually bought the CDs, but
the resellers I have seen on the net don't seem to include the non-free or
Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't
change,
because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable are
changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you want to do,
keep my system up to date.
One thing I was hoping to avoid...I
On Sun, 23 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple
install from them? Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping
those sets of files?
Apt can do much more than installing from CDs. Once you have apt
John Hagemann wrote:
I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa
ethernet card to use as a proxy.
The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card
(SMC Elite)
The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Dennis Schoen wrote:
and the Kernel Howto for Compiling a new Kernel.
Personally, i'd recommend reading the Debian FAQ, section 11, for
directions on making a new kernel.
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html
I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa
ethernet card to use as a proxy.
The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card
(SMC Elite)
The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet
card configured.
Could someone
John Hagemann wrote:
I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa
ethernet card to use as a proxy.
The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card
(SMC Elite)
The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet
John Hagemann wrote:
I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa
ethernet card to use as a proxy.
The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card
(SMC Elite)
The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet
Hey all,
I just recently decided to switch from Slackware to Debian (better package
management, among other things), and for the life of me, I can't get the
Debian distribution to boot up. I installed NT before Debian (maybe a
mistake, but Slackware was fine with it). When I run liloconfig, it
Did you install lilo on mbr or the linux root partition. If you have installed
lilo
on the linux root partition,
try use NT to activate the linux partition and see if it works.
If you have installed it in mbr, try install it on the linux root partition.
Igor wrote:
Hey all,
I just recently
Please see:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Igor wrote:
Hey all,
I just recently decided to switch from Slackware to Debian (better package
management, among other things), and for the life of me, I can't get the
Debian distribution to
Hi Chris,
I'm glad that my idea worked for you.
To be honest, everything you described suggested that you had a problem
with the firewall. Also, you wrote that the were some paranoia messages
during bootup... check tcplogd daemon about that.
There is a paranoia option in the firewalls (used to be
Howdy:
Have you checked to make sure that the latptop PCMCIA packages are installed?
Just checking,
Brant.
Chris Brown wrote:
Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question
I've done several slink installs that have worked fine.
I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am
Brant others. getting desperate here, please help!
To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the
PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes.
If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the
3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap
Brant others. getting desperate here, please help!
To answer your question, I'm not sure *EXACTLY* how to check if the
PCMCIA packages are installed, but I believe the answer is yes.
If I look at top, I can see cardmgr running. If I insert/remove the
3c589 I hear the tell-tale hot-swap
I am having the same problem here,
I am actullay using RedHat 5.2, on a Tecra 520 but most of the erorrs people
are getting are exactly the same as I am getting.
to check if the PCMCIA card is installed do a cat /proc/interrupts it should
show you if the 3c589_cs is there or not.
Hi csani,
You're a genius! the ipfwadm -Mf command was rejected, but the
others worked and now I'm back on the net! Can you please explain a
little what was going on and why my config defaulted to
allow_no_network_traffic_mode?
What's the best way to permanently set the correct options?
Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question
I've done several slink installs that have worked fine.
I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems
with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems
fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote:
If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular
user
Not necessarily true.
[8:46pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ su -
Password:
/local/home/root$
/local/home/root$
/local/home/root$
/local/home/root$ logout
[8:46pm]
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote:
If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular
user
Not necessarily true.
[8:46pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ su -
Password:
/local/home/root$
/local/home/root$ logout
As far as I could gather Joe was attempting to install for the first time. I
doubt he
has messed around with his prompt symbol. Just posting this so Joe doesn't get
confused
Kent
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote:
If your prompt is a $ you are not
I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B.
system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with
chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen
that asks for CD, and block device. I don't know what a block device is,
or what my CD-ROM
A block device is generally a physical storage device, such as a hard drive of
CD-ROM drive. Assuming your system is based on IDE storage, your CD drive will
be
/dev/hdX where X=the IDE device number. The naming convention is simple once
you get
the hang of it: Primary Master=hda; Primary
Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is.
Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda
Primary slave is /dev/hdb
Secondary master is /dev/hdc
Secondary slave is /dev/hdd
Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there.
Andrew
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 09:22:43PM -0500, Joe wrote:
I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B.
system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with
chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen
that asks for CD, and block
Hi,
I have two questions for a new installation(Debian2.0):
1)After completing all the installation and setting up Xserver, I
found out that the root pulldown menu of my 'olvwm' has the 'Debian'
selection ghosted...I cannot select it. How do I fix this ?
2)I would like to install Linux on my
*- On 8 Mar, rathon wrote about New install question
2)I would like to install Linux on my work NT machine. There is enough
unpartionted harddrive space to do this.
I have never used LILO before or the NT boot loader. At home I use
'System Commander' to select boot options.
Can you point
At 08:38 PM 3/8/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is.
Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda
Primary slave is /dev/hdb
Secondary master is /dev/hdc
Secondary slave is /dev/hdd
Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there.
Andrew
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the
login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know
what to do from their. I need to change /dev/mod.. to /dev/ttys... but
the sys. says I do not have permission. Any help?
If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular user
prompt. The prompt under root is #. You should have a password for a user
account
and one for signing in as root. When you login type root and then your root
password and you will have permission to do anything. Or
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the
login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know
Do 'whoami' and see who you are really logged on as. Why do you need to
change /dev/modX anyway? /dev/ttySX is a COM port. But if you really need
to,
I am planning on installing Slink on my home system (Windows NT 4.0 and
Windows 98) when it is classified as stable. My system is a 450 Mhz Dell.
I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle
Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help
I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle
Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help
me in that area?
Not sure about the sound card ( I'm going through the sound setup right
now, and it seems like your card is supported by the
*- On 29 Jan, Daniel A. Nelson wrote about New Install
I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle
Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help
me in that area?
You will need a real modem. Winmodems will NOT work under any other
I expect all to go smoothly except possibly my 56K Winmodem and my Turtle
Beach Montego Audio Card. Can anyone give me any information that may help
me in that area?
You won't have any luck with the Montego any time soon :( Though if you
ever happen to find out otherwise let me know!! Even
Hi,
I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non-
linux partitions and have tried both using pppconfig and manually
editing the provider files as indicated in install.txt. FTP is the only
method to my disposal of enhancing my installation.
It would seem the best I can
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Bob Eidt wrote:
I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non-
linux partitions and have tried both using pppconfig and manually
editing the provider files as indicated in install.txt. FTP is the only
method to my disposal of enhancing my
Bob Eidt wrote:
I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non-
linux partitions and have tried both using pppconfig and manually
editing the provider files as indicated in install.txt. FTP is the only
method to my disposal of enhancing my installation.
It would seem
Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the
Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb)
Drive C is a 3.2gb IDE (master) and the new drive(D) 5.1GB (slave).
Drive C is dual boot DOS and NT. The bios allows booting from D.
Earlier this week before I received the new
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, EGRET Lures wrote:
Just got the Debian CD's this week and installed a new drive (D) for the
Linux installation. (Homebulit K-6 233 w\64mb)
With the bios set to boot from D all that appears is LI and the
systems hangs.
from the lilo documentation (actually taken from
Just installed a 8.4 gig hd and set it up for a triple-boot with Suse
5.2, RedHat 5.1 and Debian 2.0. Installed Suse and set up the
partitions for the other OS's. Red Hat refuses to go to the partition
screen saying something about not enough resources. I was able to
format the partitions for
I've got the initial part of the installation done. The system boots
just fine. When I run dselect, choose access, then ftp, the following
error is returned:
Query/setup script was terminated by a signal:segmentation fault.
I've also chosen a mounted filesystem and received the same
I am installing Hamm anew on a machine that I had managed to
get Bo on (but only recently so I had nothing much to lose by
zapping it).
Everything seems to go fine. I have reinitialised all the drives with
the bad block checking and done the full install. When it comes to
the final reboot
An hour or so ago my moron self sent a message to the list that started:
I am installing Hamm anew on a machine that I had managed to
Scrap it -- sorry! I was being dumb and mounted a drive as /etc
when I meant to mount it as /home. I presume that /etc has to be
on the root drive. Things
I've just installed Debian 2.0, using the 2.0.34 Kernel... Dselected
all the X11 stuff, installed it, etc. When I try to run fvwm95(actually,
I'd like to use ksh, but fvwm95 was already there, being in the hamm
install) I get libXpm.so.4 not found. I tried wm2, and one or two other
window
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
I've just installed Debian 2.0, using the 2.0.34 Kernel... Dselected
all the X11 stuff, installed it, etc. When I try to run fvwm95(actually,
I'd like to use ksh, but fvwm95 was already there, being in the hamm
install) I get libXpm.so.4 not found. I tried wm2, and
Hi!
A friend of mine asked me to install Debian on his new web and
mail server. Now I am trying to decide whether I should install
bo or hamm. Bo has some pretty old packages and a later upgrade
to hamm would probably require to shut the system down for a
while. But is hamm stable enough
On 16 Jun 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote:
A friend of mine asked me to install Debian on his new web and
mail server. Now I am trying to decide whether I should install
bo or hamm. Bo has some pretty old packages and a later upgrade
to hamm would probably require to shut the system down for a
I have just tried to install the bo
release on my machine and ended up
with a strange error message:
floppy0: perpendicular mode not supported by
this FDC
I am using a LS-120 as my main (only) floppy
drive. Is there some
BIOS setup that I need to change? How do I get
around this
Hi all.
I have installed the bo version of Debian and am very happy with it.
I have three questions (I have read a fair number of docs and faqs, but
have not found simple answers).
1. During the install, I enabled Windows95 file sharing. How do I
actually set this up?
2. After installation is
2. After installation is complete, if I want to remove an item from the
install (I added IPX and don't want it), how do I accomplish this? (I
only have the basic installation right now... see #3.
Edit /etc/modules and remove the line with ipx
3. Due to factors beyond my control, this Linux
I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based
Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting
with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at
which point it hangs. I haven't seen this with any of the other Debian
installs, but
Tim Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based
Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting
with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at
which point it hangs. I haven't seen this with
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home
did not have
a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in
passwd file.
I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got cannot make directory ahurd: readonly
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Albert Hurd wrote:
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1.
/home did not have a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed
with that home dir in passwd file.
Sounds like something went a bit wrong with the install. Hopefully this
I am a wet-behind the ears newbe who has just installed Debian 1.3.1. /home
did not have
a subdir /ahurd (my user name) even tho I am listed with that home dir in
passwd file.
I tried mkdir ahurd in /home and got cannot make directory ahurd: readonly
filesystem.
An ls -l indeed showed home as
I got irritated enough at the assorted problems from my dirty, inherited
installation to wipe the disk and do a clean install.
Installing hamm with X and a few more packages required about 10 (at least)
passess through install/configure in deselect, and even so, i had to manually
install perl
On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:59:20AM -0800, Bill Leach wrote:
It seems to me that I have had more than 4 logical partitions on one drive
but memory being what it is (mine that is), I can not be certain.
At this time, I have the main partition table filled, with one of those
being an extended
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
The second thing to think about is the PC's somewhat dated partition
scheme. You can only have 4 physical partitions on a drive, but you can
divide those partition into logical partitions. All things being equal,
it's better to avoid logical
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, robert havoc pennington wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
The second thing to think about is the PC's somewhat dated partition
scheme. You can only have 4 physical partitions on a drive, but you can
divide those partition into logical
On Thu, Nov 20, 1997 at 10:17:22AM -0500, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, robert havoc pennington wrote:
How hard should I try to avoid logical partitions? What's the impact
of using them?
AFAIK, under Linux, none whatsoever.
everything's lost. Splitting things up into
I would not suggest worrying about using logical partitions in Linux.
Though I don't really know, I suspect that there might be a little more
overhead in accessing them (at least for mounting) but even if there is
some for an aready mounted partition, it is my experience that you won't
see
Deal All:
I am about to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 on my computer. My
question would be which is the best way to distribute partitions for
my Linux installation on a 1.6GB which is connected to the secondary
controller in the MB as a Master having a CD-ROM as a
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Antonio Marrosu wrote:
I am about to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 on my computer. My
question would be which is the best way to distribute partitions for
my Linux installation on a 1.6GB which is connected to the secondary
controller in the MB as a Master having a
Hello All,
Wanted to try out Debian and well I have a tiny question.
I dl all disks for base install and was able to get that in. I have a
Adaptec 1520b SCSI card and after putting in the parameters for the card the
system boot saw the device. So no prob getting the base series in. But, I
wanted
Hi,
I'm attempting to install Debian 1.3.1 as provided on the Infomagic LDR
aug97. I have a 486 with an adaptec 2842, and a spare partition on one of
the scsi drives. The system currently runs redhat 4.2, which I don't want
to disturb, so I'm using loadlin on files copied to hda as documented in
Karsten Bolding writes:
Hi
Just got a new computer with 2 Quantum Fireball ST2.1A and a Pioneer ATAPI CD
(DR-A24X)
I'am having some problems...
I can boot the system and come to the point where
Please wait
Installation is determining the current state ..
and
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Karsten Bolding wrote:
Just got a new computer with 2 Quantum Fireball ST2.1A and a Pioneer ATAPI CD
(DR-A24X)
I had a similar problem with a couple of Western Digital HDs and an ATAPI
CDrom. I had to phisically change their connection to the ide ports:
i have connected
Hi
Just got a new computer with 2 Quantum Fireball ST2.1A and a Pioneer ATAPI CD
(DR-A24X)
I'am having some problems...
I can boot the system and come to the point where
Please wait
Installation is determining the current state ..
and then the screen starts to be filed with
Hi,
I've just installed 1.3.1 but am unable to access the CDrom. Debian says that
the CDROM is not a Block device.
What do I have to do to get the CD Rom recognised?
Base install from floppy to a SCSI disk.
CDROM is on Secondary IDE interface ( /dev/hdb reported at boot )
I can mount the CDROM
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Alan Jacobs wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed 1.3.1 but am unable to access the CDrom. Debian says that
the CDROM is not a Block device.
What do I have to do to get the CD Rom recognised?
Are you sure you're mounting it as the right filesystem type? Should be
mount -t
Hello Everyone,
So, I installed a new 1.3.1 system from the cheapbytes cd, the install went
very smooth everything is working, although I find it annoying that
deselect scans through every file on the disk when it is installing 1 file.
Only one problem when I try to boot from the hard disk Lilo
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
Hello Everyone,
li
That's all that shows up when it freezes.
I had this problem for a while, turned out to be some screwing function
of modifiying the hard disk settings in the bios ... I had to turn LBA
mode and a few others off.
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
So, I installed a new 1.3.1 system from the cheapbytes cd, the install went
very smooth everything is working, although I find it annoying that
deselect scans through every file on the disk when it is installing 1 file.
Only one problem when I try to
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
Hello,
I installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new machine and I found two problems:
1. After installing xbase and the SVGA server, the file
/etc/X11/xdm/Xserver refers to /usr/X11/X11R6/bin/X (or something like
this, I don't recall well). The right
PIS == Pedro I Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PIS 2. /etc/init.d/xdm is empty so my PC doesn't boot into X
PIS automatically. If I execute xdm manually everything is ok.
In the same dir you I found a file called xdm.dpkg-new (or somesuch).
I renamed this to xdm, and I was up and running.
Hello,
I installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new machine and I found two problems:
1. After installing xbase and the SVGA server, the file
/etc/X11/xdm/Xserver refers to /usr/X11/X11R6/bin/X (or something like
this, I don't recall well). The right name should be /usr/bin/X11/X.
2. /etc/init.d/xdm is
I'm doing a new install of Debian 1.3.0 and when I get to the device
drivers section,
None of the 4 options for SCSI controllers worked. Does anyone have any
ideas ?
The AHA-15110A is fairly ancient and has no boot ROM and has jumpers for
resource
settings. The boot drive is an IDE, so it's
Frozen Install:
Well, I just installed Frozen on the system I am sending this note from.
Everything went great. I had no problems with the install!
I'm happy :)
Matthew
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
I sat down today to do what i have done many times before, setup a debian
box. I started the boot process, got to the partition a hard disk
section and got the error that debian could not detect a hard disk.
The machine has a scsi disk with an
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