Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 17:54:08 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Ok. Trying to repeat your work, I accomplish all steps thru 4, Good progress. At least we now know the mirror and the installer work together. but I cannot boot to Lenny. Instead I get error message : Error: Couldn't read file

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_145735, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: snip... You can always use the Alt-F2 console to edit (I think nano is available) the sources.list file

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120621_104337, Brian wrote: On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 17:54:08 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Ok. Trying to repeat your work, I accomplish all steps thru 4, Good progress. At least we now know the mirror and the installer work together. but I cannot boot to Lenny. Instead I get error

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net a écrit : Thanks, but... I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again I got the standard Bad Archive Mirror message. That message suggests that either the archive is

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote: I'd put archive.debian.org for the mirror hostname. [Snip] I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again I got the standard Bad Archive Mirror

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 03:03:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: * note: I don't know that X is involved in painting the screen graphics on boot up from the Debian install CDs. When I think about it, X seems like an awfully heavy weight way to paint a picture. Suffice to say I don't want and

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again I got the standard Bad Archive Mirror message. That message suggests that either the archive is not available, or that

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Le Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net a écrit : Thanks, but... I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again I got the standard Bad Archive Mirror message.

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:34:28PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 03:03:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: * note: I don't know that X is involved in painting the screen graphics on boot up from the Debian install CDs. When I think about it, X seems like an awfully

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote: On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote: I'd put archive.debian.org for the mirror hostname. [Snip] I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Your CD, being from the lenny=stable era, probably attempts to access stable release but it does not exists on an archive repository. Replacing stable by lenny could do the trick This is what must be

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 03:20:02 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote: I used the mini.iso from http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ successfully. Thanks, but I'm no longer confident that

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) The Squeeze netinstall CD that I have used for several previous installs on other hardware won't work on this hardware. It doesn't initialize the flat screen display properly. There is a Debian swirl but response to keyboard

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Your CD, being from the lenny=stable era, probably attempts to access stable release but it does not exists on an archive repository. Replacing stable by

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Your CD, being from the lenny=stable era, probably attempts to access stable release but it does not exists

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_130712, Brian wrote: On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 03:20:02 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote: I used the mini.iso from http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ successfully.

netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to use it as a untility server for things like backup and print serving, and I am having trouble installing Debian on it. I've been using Debian since Potato was new, so I didn't expect difficult problems. I want to install wheezy, since daily

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread keith
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to use it as a untility server for things like backup and print serving, and I am having trouble installing Debian on it. I've been using Debian since Potato was new, so I didn't expect

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120619_211919, keith wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to use it as a untility server for things like backup and print serving, and I am having trouble installing Debian on it. I've been using Debian since

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [Snip] But my old Lenny netinstall CD *does*work*. Now I need a repository to point it at. I've found archive.kernel.org (I'm in USA). But I'm having trouble composing the exact string that I need to type into the screen on my new(to

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote: On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [Snip] But my old Lenny netinstall CD *does*work*. Now I need a repository to point it at. I've found archive.kernel.org (I'm in USA). But I'm having trouble composing the exact string that I