Re: Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:31:43 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't. not directly answering your question, but if you post this (and details) in grml mlist, it is very likely that the problem be resolved. -- Tong (remove

Re: Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: [cut] My question is; is there any recovery option other than a re-install? I have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't. I think the directions here should work: http://forums.osdir.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=251 They did. Many

Re: Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
M-L wrote: [cut] I had this same problem with testing [Etch] The installer didn't finish. I also didn't use the option to install any software, just the base system. So I just turned off the computer and allowed it to boot. What I did then was:- login as root Here are my notes:- 1. Typing #

Re: Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
T wrote: On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:31:43 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't. not directly answering your question, but if you post this (and details) in grml mlist, it is very likely that the problem be resolved. Thanks

Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only option left was to abort the installation. Booting the new installation went well until the

Re: Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-12, 22:31:43 (+0100) skrifaði Peter Hillier-Brook: I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only option left was to abort

Re: Testing Installation Headache

2006-10-12 Thread M-L
On Friday 13 October 2006 07:31, Peter Hillier-Brook shared this with us all: I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only option left was