Woody - New Install Chroot Failure

2002-10-01 Thread Kim Christiansen
Hi, Have started with fresh machine and with Debian 3.0 Pressed disks. I have tried various configurations with partitions on a 1.4G drive and still getting stuck with various stages of install. ALL msg say: Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-depends --install

Woody - New Install Chroot Failure .. segmentation fault

2002-10-01 Thread Kim Christiansen
More info... it seems to have a segmentation fault occuring at the time installing /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst segmentation fault chown root.staff $1 2/dev/null I am doing an automatic install with nothing else (no network or devices added just raw base install) cheers Kim --

new install no mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Ben Miller
Hello, I new to Debian and this list. I have just installed Debian Woody 3.0 with the 2.4 kernel. My PS2 3-button Logitec Mouse does not work in console mode. The mouse doesn't work under X either. I have tried to find docs or FAQs but so far no luck. Q1- How can I get my mouse going please?

Re: new install no mouse

2002-09-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Ben == Ben Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Hello, I new to Debian and this list. I have just installed Ben Debian Woody 3.0 with the 2.4 kernel. My PS2 3-button Ben Logitec Mouse does not work in console mode. The mouse Ben doesn't work under X either. Ben I have

New install and 2.4 kernel?

2002-09-30 Thread Jonas Hallgren
Title: Message Hi! I have used poptato with a 2.2 kernel for some time and now decided I wanted to upgrade to 3.0 with a 2.4 kernel. For som reason I thought that 2.4 was default in 3.0 but I found that it was 2.2.20. Does anybody know if there are any installation floppies out there

Re: New install and 2.4 kernel?

2002-09-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Jonas Hallgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-01 05:50:35 +0200]: I have used poptato with a 2.2 kernel for some time and now decided I wanted to upgrade to 3.0 with a 2.4 kernel. For som reason I thought that 2.4 was default in 3.0 but I found that it was 2.2.20. The 2.2 kernel was the best

new install 2.2 kernel

2002-09-23 Thread david hong
i downloaded the Woody CD image, and installed succesfully. The default installation kernel is 2.2. how do i install kernel 2.4 from the CD? or do i need to build the 2.4 kernel from scratch? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: new install 2.2 kernel

2002-09-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:42:00PM +0800, david hong wrote: i downloaded the Woody CD image, and installed succesfully. The default installation kernel is 2.2. how do i install kernel 2.4 from the CD? Use the bf2.4 flavour. See:

New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread W.D. McKinney
Greetings, I am new to Debian and just successfully installed Woody on my laptop. Now I would like to install the latest XFree86 and Windowmaker. Not familiar with apt yet so any pointers to the best URL to learn more ? Thanks so much. /Dee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:12 pm, W.D. McKinney wrote: Greetings, I am new to Debian and just successfully installed Woody on my laptop. Now I would like to install the latest XFree86 and Windowmaker. Not familiar with apt yet so any pointers to the best

Re: New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
W.D. McKinney wrote: Greetings, I am new to Debian and just successfully installed Woody on my laptop. Now I would like to install the latest XFree86 and Windowmaker. Not familiar with apt yet so any pointers to the best URL to learn more ? Thanks so much. /Dee You should probably check

New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Irish, Jon D NCCIM
Title: New Install I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into a problem with the initial install. I am trying to install on a Compaq Deskpro EN system. This box has an integrated Intel PRO/100 VM nic. Debian does not list this adapter in the install routine. Intel's web site does have

Re: New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Kent West
Irish, Jon D NCCIM wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into a problem with the initial install. I am trying to install on a Compaq Deskpro EN system. This box has an integrated Intel PRO/100 VM nic. Debian does not list this adapter in the install routine. Intel's web site does

Re: New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:05:31AM -0600, Irish, Jon D NCCIM wrote: I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into a problem with the initial install. I am trying to install on a Compaq Deskpro EN system. This box has an integrated Intel PRO/100 VM nic. That nic was a pain to get going with

Re: New Install

2002-04-03 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 3 Apr 2002, Irish, Jon D NCCIM wrote: This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01C1DB29.61700D40 Content-Type: text/plain I am a newbie to Debian, and I am running into

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

2001-12-06 Thread David
On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a message about block-major-8. It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops. You have

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

2001-12-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a message about block-major-8. It's trying to load the driver

Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

2001-12-05 Thread Graham Williams
I'm installing Debian from CD-ROM (2.2). The hard disk is a RAID array (Adaptec 2100s). I've the driver for it from adaptec for kernel 2.2.19 (and the CD-ROM has 2.2.18pre21 kernel but the driver seems okay?). During a clean install I need to load the driver from floppy right after the

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

2001-12-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a message about block-major-8. It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops. You have two options: 1. build a custom kernel with the driver compiled in.

New install?

2001-08-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to put debian on a Dell 2450 with the built in scsi raid controllers. I have the 3 CD's from 2.2 (potato). When I boot off the cdrom it says it can't find any drives. I'm going to try and download the woody floppies and boot from those. Is this going to stand half a chance or am

Re: New install?

2001-08-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
Robert L. Harris wrote: I'm trying to put debian on a Dell 2450 with the built in scsi raid controllers. I have the 3 CD's from 2.2 (potato). When I boot off the cdrom it says it can't find any drives. I'm going to try and download the woody floppies and boot from those. Is this going

Re: [Fwd: new install nfs not working] ...and causing problems

2001-08-12 Thread jjheuring
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:03:24 -0400 From: Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: new install nfs not working To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 03:31:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: new install nfs not working

2001-08-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: new install nfs not working Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:20:04AM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): uname: Debian of course. Linux 2.4.5 #1 Sat Jun 16 07:33:46 PDT 2001 i686 unknown Hello all. Just installed nfs

new install nfs not working

2001-08-10 Thread jjheuring
uname: Debian of course. Linux 2.4.5 #1 Sat Jun 16 07:33:46 PDT 2001 i686 unknown Hello all. Just installed nfs using apt-get but haven't got it to work yet. My /etc/exports hosts.allow and deny files are listed below but I think they are correct. On the client side the command: # rpcinfo -p

pppoe on a new install?

2001-05-22 Thread kyle
Has anyone had any success setting up Debian on a system that connects to the net using DSL via PPPoE? The .deb packages appear to be missing the configuration scripts and documentation. The Roaring Penguin site only has information on the latest version, version 3.0, which depends on libc6

Re: pppoe on a new install?

2001-05-22 Thread ha shao
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 11:35:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any success setting up Debian on a system that connects to the net using DSL via PPPoE? The .deb packages appear to be missing the configuration scripts and documentation. The Roaring Penguin site only has

Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread Nick
I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists On Monday 12 March 2001 17:08, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Response directed to list. Please *don't* direct list mail to me privately for general correspondence. on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:54:03PM -0500, - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:08:19PM -0800, Nick wrote: I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists No, he just gives a shit about netiquette and asks others to do the same. (Karsten is active on the list though; that's a good thing). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good

Re: New Install

2001-03-14 Thread mike polniak
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:08:19PM -0800, Nick wrote: I think this guy spends too much time reading mail lists No, he just gives a shit about netiquette and asks others to do the same. (Karsten is active on the list though; that's a good thing). Not such

New Install

2001-03-12 Thread Kevin C. Kelly
I am trying to do a CD install of 2.2rev2 from a commercial CD-ROM copy of Debian. No other operating system is on the computer. Every thing appears to going okay until the Install operating system kernal and Modules phase. What path do I choose for the ...Debian Archive Path? Tried specifying

Re: New Install

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:44:44AM -0600, Kevin C. Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am trying to do a CD install of 2.2rev2 from a commercial CD-ROM copy of Debian. No other operating system is on the computer. Every thing appears to going okay until the Install operating system kernal

Re: New Install

2001-03-12 Thread Mark Hurley
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:44:44AM -0600, Kevin C. Kelly wrote: I am trying to do a CD install of 2.2rev2 from a commercial CD-ROM copy of Debian. No other operating system is on the computer. Every thing appears to going okay until the Install operating system kernal and Modules phase.

Re: New Install

2001-03-12 Thread kmself
Response directed to list. Please *don't* direct list mail to me privately for general correspondence. on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:54:03PM -0500, - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:44:44AM -0600, Kevin C. Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

network card on new install not recognized

2001-03-06 Thread Brian Murphy
I am attempting a new install of deb. potato. The install program is not recognizing my network card and isn't configuring it. I have an SMC EZ 10/100 ( the driver should be for a Realtek 3189). I selected the realtek driver in the install procedure, but when it goes to configure DHCP

Re: New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-16 Thread Patrick Ouellette
You can also create boot floppies off the Debian CD. There should be a directory on the cd called disks-i386. It contains the boot floppy image files. You will also need the utility rawrite2 from the dosutils directory (or somewhere on the net like ftp.us.debian.org). Pat On Thu, Feb 15,

New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-15 Thread Mahalingam, Sivendiran
hi Does anyone know how to create Debian boot disks? I am trying to install Debian for the first time, but I only have a CD distribution, and my computer does not have support to boot up from a CD. Anyone got some creative ways to solve this probelm? thanks

Re: New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:28:07PM -0500, Mahalingam, Sivendiran wrote: hi Does anyone know how to create Debian boot disks? I am trying to install Debian for the first time, but I only have a CD distribution, and my computer does not have support to boot up from a CD. Anyone got some

Re: New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???

2001-02-15 Thread Robert Cymbala
Hi ~ Here's a method that installs Debian from floppy disks and then from a parallel port CD-ROM device (microSolutions bantam backpack). Debian GNU/Linux on Toshiba T4700ct Notebook http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/Debian/t4700ct.html --- Mahalingam, Sivendiran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:50:25PM + or thereabouts, Gary Turner wrote: ultimate functionality and safety. Until software gets even more out of hand, I am memory and HD rich. The system will consist of: PII 350 mHz, Spacewalker HOT 661, Award BIOS 192 meg ram 8 gig HD (primary master)

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:50:25PM + or thereabouts, Gary Turner wrote: ultimate functionality and safety. Until software gets even more out of hand, I am memory and HD rich. The system will consist of: PII 350 mHz,

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:54:13PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote: /boot - 50MB / - 256MB /usr - 2GB /swap - 2xRAM /var at least 1GB (for /var/cache/apt) /tmp at least 50MB to 100MB and ditch /boot you don't need it and its more trouble then its worth, just make sure

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:14:39PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: yes you can do away without /boot. i'm just being generous here. in fact, / can be 64MB only or even 50MB if my memory serves me right even on my most bloated install / is only taking up 19MB as for /boot there was just a mention

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread John L . Fjellstad
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: /swap - 2xRAM I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all (currently using about 712 KB of swap). My system can have up to 1 GB of RAM. I

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2000, John L . Fjellstad wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: /swap - 2xRAM I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the swap at all (currently using about 712 KB of

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
John L . Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:46:11AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: /swap - 2xRAM I don't think the 'rule' of swap being 2xRAM is necessary anymore. I have 256 MB RAM, and 133 MB swap, and hardly use the

Re: disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 03:50:25PM +, Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I will be upgrading soon to a faster box. This will leave me a machine to use strictly in Debian-Linux. I will use the Debian package because it seems to be the distribution least hidden (behind make-easy apps)

disc partition plan for new install

2000-09-17 Thread Gary Turner
I will be upgrading soon to a faster box. This will leave me a machine to use strictly in Debian-Linux. I will use the Debian package because it seems to be the distribution least hidden (behind make-easy apps) and closest to the OS. The box will be used as a learning/development tool.

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread Julio Merino
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:32:17AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: Neal H Walfield writes: Hi All, I have developed a new install guide as the easy guide has become quite out of date. This one was written in the texinfo format so it is Hm. I've been working on some updates - do

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread Julio Merino
, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:02:09PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:32:17AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: Neal H Walfield writes: Hi All, I have developed a new install guide as the easy guide has become quite out of date. This one was written in the texinfo format

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread Julio Merino
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:23:48PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:58:20AM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:24:52PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: Hi All, I have developed a new install guide as the easy guide has become quite out

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:09:16PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: Ooopss. I mistaked again of list. Sorry. Anybody can help? When using mutt and hitting reply in a message from a mailing list it sets the to: field to the person who wrote it... How can I change this behavivour to make it sent to

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread USM Bish
Don't know if this is the recommended way, but sure it is the easiest and most effective way. After the initial questions you are placed in the edit mode of your specified editor (vi by default) by mutt. At that point just go to the second line where To: is written and edit the addressee.

Re: A new install guide

2000-09-14 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 12:04:58PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: -|On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:09:16PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: -| Ooopss. I mistaked again of list. Sorry. -| -| Anybody can help? When using mutt and hitting reply in a message from -| a mailing list it sets the to: field to the

New Install causes reboot

2000-04-10 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, I am trying to install Debian potato on my PC. Before the past weekend, it was already running Debian potato, but I decided I didn't like the way my HD was partitioned, so I re-partitioned and now I can't get the Linux kernel to boot. I have tried the boot set from potato, slink, an

new install with apt-get

2000-03-07 Thread Brett Fowlkes
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

new install with apt-get

2000-03-07 Thread Brett Fowlkes
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

Re: new install with apt-get

2000-03-07 Thread Marshal Wong
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

Re: new install with apt-get

2000-03-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
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

New install won't recognize SCSI

2000-01-31 Thread russ999
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

Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-24 Thread Roger Weinheimer
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

Re: Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
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

new install network problem

2000-01-23 Thread Roger Weinheimer
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

Fwd: new install network problem

2000-01-23 Thread Roger Weinheimer
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

Re: New Install -- No Operation System found

1999-06-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
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

New Install -- No Operation System found

1999-06-23 Thread Jeremy Gunter
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

Re: Help with networking a new install

1999-06-16 Thread Sandy Kear
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

Help with networking a new install

1999-06-14 Thread Eric Warmenhoven
/* 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

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-05 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
): 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

AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
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

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
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)

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
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

Re: AMD K6 2 - 350. New install. Some doubts...

1999-06-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
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

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-24 Thread John Foster
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

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-24 Thread John Pearson
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

sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread fairfax
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

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
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

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread fairfax
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

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-23 Thread Brad
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

Re: New install question

1999-05-22 Thread Dennis Schoen
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

Re: New install question

1999-05-22 Thread Brad
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

New install question

1999-05-21 Thread John Hagemann
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

Re: New install question

1999-05-21 Thread Dennis Schoen
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

Re: New install question

1999-05-21 Thread John Foster
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

LILO not working in new install

1999-04-09 Thread Igor
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

Re: LILO not working in new install

1999-04-09 Thread Shao Zhang
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

Re: LILO not working in new install

1999-04-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
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

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-07 Thread Holanyi Janos, jr.
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

Re: New install: net unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Brant Wells
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

Re: New install: net unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
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

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
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

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Marouf @ CS
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.

re: new install: network unreachable

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Brown
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?

New install: net unreachable

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Brown
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

Re: New Install

1999-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
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]

Re: New Install

1999-03-10 Thread Thomas Köhler
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

Re: New Install

1999-03-10 Thread ktb
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

New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Joe
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

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread illusion
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

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Andrei Ivanov
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

Re: New Install

1999-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
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

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