installation and such
I'm pretty much now at the give-up point in trying to install debian. This is indeed a very hard thing for me to do, since I used to install 68k bsd systems manually (building scripts to mknod all the devices and such). I have now downloaded the ENTIRE debian tree, hoping that would help, but all I've done is waste download time. If I select update and then try to install, it looks for dpkg-perl part 1 and then fails when it can't find it (it says I am looking for version of dpkg-perl - i.e. there is something seriously screwy with the script). If I don't select update, it installs a bunch of the programs that were selected, but it fails in the configuration phase of a bunch of them (this happens even when I select a basic setup such as workstation-std in the quick-select program). This is now my 6th attempt at installing debian. I have so far not made it past the dselect phase even once. All I want to do is install a base system with tcp-ip and ipx networking, dhcpcd, X, and a basic window manager, so that I can go and get the latest kde, run some kind of GUI package manager, and then install any other things as I need them. I have no need for sendmail, ftpd, httpd, emacs, tex, and just about 98% of the other stuff that seems to get installed anytime you select anything besides the base install. Is there any way I can do this with Debian, or should I be seeking a different distribution? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
debian installer and adaptec 2940
I recently downloaded the latest Debian and tried installing it. Unfortunately, it dies when it tries to initialize the SCSI bus (Adaptec 2940UW). After downloading the sequencer code, it says: Failed in WD-7000 initialization. It then reports 1 host (my Seagate 9 gig), and then it loops endlessly, getting SCSI diagnostic messages reporting responses of all zeroes. I'm assuming that WD-7000 is another scsi driver that it is getting confused into trying to init. I've already tried the special installer disks for adaptec users, but I get the same result. My system worked flawlessly with redhat for the past 4 years, until I finally got pissed off with all the crap that redhat keeps putting in their distrib and their hopelessly polluted filesystem. Does anyone have any ideas for this? I'm not adverse to booting a minimal system and going from there. Perhaps it is going funny because I have no IDE devices? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
debian installation woes
I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Once I did that (it took about 15 minutes to read the kernel from the floppy), it went to the main installer thing. I selected the developer option with extra bits (I selected it because it included perl, but it looks like it included absolutely every language ever made). It took me to the dselect screen, but I couldn't figure out how to select and deselect packages so I just left it as it was. Once I'd fluked and managed to exit (q, Q, x, and ESC only seem to do something on specific screens, so I had to go in and out of a bunch of screens before it would let me exit), I got to the screen that lets me start the actual installation phase. Unfortunately, halfway through the installer one of the scripts returned with an error. When I selected install again, it went past it, but it failed in some configuration section. I don't know what went wrong because it scrolled a few screens full of stuff past. After that, every time I selected install, it ran through all the packages and then returned with anotehr script error. When I selected exit, it said my system was installed and ready to go, so I logged in and tried running some programs, but they all failed because they couldn't find any shared libraries. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: debian installation woes
Whoops! I knew I forgot something =) I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec 2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) Other hardware: - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't find the module to install this card in the installer) - SB16 - Riva TNT2 AGP I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now (I was using system commander before, but it can't seem to boot the linux partition). Now it just complains at the first package, saying it can't find it. I'm probably just going to re-download the whole thing and try again. --- virtanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote: I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Hi, I think that we need to know at least something about your hardware specifications, please. Then maybe something about partitions you created. Otherwise it will be quite impossible to know, what went wrong. hv [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: debian installation woes
--- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably just going to re-download the whole thing and try again. Ewww - I would try to find a copy of Debian 2.1 (or 2.0) at a local 'Borders' bookstore - much more convenient. Believe me, I would if I could. Unfortunately I live in Japan now, so it's kinda hard =) = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
