Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:56:14PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.)

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Frank Murphy
The kernel parameter for initrd is just initrd=/boot/newinstall/root-2.4.bin but this is just doing what you have done with the grub command so I would expect anything different. Is your initrd image valid? Can you loopback mount it? I think it's valid because I was able to dd a moot

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Murphy
What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.) Here's my Grub config: title Woody install kernel

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying them

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:01, Francisco Fialho wrote: Hi everybody, I`m just beggining using Linux, and decided to start with Debian. Heard a lot about how good it was and everything :-). I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 processor, 128 mem, and

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
: Problems installing woody On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:01, Francisco Fialho wrote: Hi everybody, I`m just beggining using Linux, and decided to start with Debian. Heard a lot about how good it was and everything :-). I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:01:31AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 processor, 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)... when I finished my first installation I could ping the local and

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
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Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Peter Whysall
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Robert Ian Smit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:01:31AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 processor, 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)...

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
] Cc: Debian - US debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:46 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody I did an apt-get install -s task-x-window-system and had a message of package dependency... so I went doing an apt-get install package ( xlib6g-dev) that required (libc6

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
package xserver-xfree86... where can I get this package? regards Francisco - Original Message - From: Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:01:31 -0300 Francisco Fialho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 processor, 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)... when I finished my first installation I could ping the

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:57:13 -0300 Francisco Fialho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, I couldn`t mount the /cdrom even changing my /etc/fstab to /dev/hdc... got the same message: /dev/hdc is not a block device. regards Hi! Do you know which controller your drive is connected to? If

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:46:30AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: I did an apt-get install -s task-x-window-system and had a message of package dependency... so I went doing an apt-get install package ( xlib6g-dev) that required (libc6-dev) that required (libc6), and when a tried to update

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Peter Whysall
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Francisco Fialho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Peter, the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command gave me the following output: Package xserver-xfree86 is not installed and no info is available. /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xsrever-xfree86 is not fully installed. then I

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi all, Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 16:28 schrieb Stephan Hachinger: [...] Do you know which controller your drive is connected to? If it is... ... at the primary controller, slave position: try mount /dev/hdb /cdrom [...] also you can try dmesg | grep hd to figure out on what /dev/hd?

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
Building Dependecy Tree... Done Sorry, libc6 is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, and so on... - Original Message - From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian - US debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody Hi all, Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 16:28 schrieb Stephan Hachinger: [...] Do you know which controller your drive is connected to? If it is... ... at the primary controller, slave

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:04:45AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: Sorry for the big mail... this is what I get when apt-get install -s task-x-window-system... In woody, use 'x-window-system', not 'task-x-window-system'. McLaren:/# apt-get install xlib6g-dev xlib6g-dev is present in woody,

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:04:45AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: Sorry for the big mail... this is what I get when apt-get install -s task-x-window-system... In woody, use 'x-window-system', not 'task-x-window-system'. McLaren:/# apt

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:17:01AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: when I give an apt-get install x-window-system it returns: couldn`t find package x-window-system. how can I correct the mix packages search? I bet I know what's wrong. The testing installation disks have 'stable' in the

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 17:17 schrieb Colin Watson: That looks to me as if you're trying to mix packages from potato and woody somehow ... If so, it might be helpful to mail the output of the following commands : cat /etc/apt/preferences cat /etc/apt/sources.list ciao gerhard sorry

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 12:02 schrieb Francisco Fialho: This could help: [...] Fatal Server error: Cannot Open Mouse ( No such file or directory) X connection to :0.0 broken ( explicit kill or shutdown). Without mouse the xserver can not start. What kind of mouse do you use? At what

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 13:08 schrieb Francisco Fialho: I used the dmesg | grep hd command and found my cdrom at /dev/hdd made the change at /etc/fstab and it worked! I`m still fighting with my X config! :-) Try 'apt-cdrom add' and insert your debian cdroms. see the output of 'man apt'