Re: Help Installing Debian
Klistvud (klist...@gmail.com on 2011-05-21 10:04 +0200): Dne, 21. 05. 2011 09:40:02 je Camaleón napisal(a): [snip] I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-? Don't know about LVM/RAID setups, but plain old one-disk setups need a (tiny) dedicated boot partition if you want GRUB-PC installed. There's no place for its boot code in GPT (as it was in the MS-DOS partition table). Exactly. If you want to boot from a GPT-based disk with grub2 (and you have a BIOS-based system), you need to create a partition for it. The type is BIOS Boot Partition (gdisk type ef02, don't know how other partitioning software handles it), and it can be as small as 64kB. I usually use a partition size of 256kB just to be sure. For a laugh, check out the GUID for the BBP on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_Boot_partition :) HTH, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110522202227.046a3...@neminis.loos.site
Help Installing Debian
Dear All, I am using IBM System X 3400 M3 with Raid1 and Raid5. Raid1 id being used to have Debian and raid5 for /home partiotion. Whenever i am trying to install it after creating a partition when it goes to format reboots my system. I have also tried lenny 5.8 which is not detecting my disk at all neither showing anything missing. I have tried RHEL 5.4 which says can not create boot partition because og GPT partitioning scheme. I could only manage to install RHEL 6 successfully. Please let me know what is the issue. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=j1lsta2x_sna_s_vpz0yosut...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Help Installing Debian
On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:35:42 +0530, Joy wrote: I am using IBM System X 3400 M3 with Raid1 and Raid5. Raid1 id being used to have Debian and raid5 for /home partiotion. Are those raid over a hardware raid controller or you want to create a software based raid? Whenever i am trying to install it after creating a partition when it goes to format reboots my system. You can try to install Debian with the partitions already made and formatted, using the Gparted LiveCD. I have also tried lenny 5.8 which is not detecting my disk at all neither showing anything missing. Better than lenny is squeeze, now the current stable. If lenny was not detecting your hard disks that can mean that: 1/ Your hard disk controller is very new and the kernel shipped with lenny did not included the drivers for it. 2/ Your hard disk setup is not recognized by the installer (for instance, if you are using the BIOS sata raid facility and so you need to use dmraid, which I do not recommend at all). I have tried RHEL 5.4 which says can not create boot partition because og GPT partitioning scheme. I could only manage to install RHEL 6 successfully. I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-? Debian installer logs messages to console tty4, maybe you can jump into it at the partitioning stage to have more information about the error. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.21.07.40...@gmail.com
Re: Help Installing Debian
Dne, 21. 05. 2011 09:40:02 je Camaleón napisal(a): [snip] I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-? Don't know about LVM/RAID setups, but plain old one-disk setups need a (tiny) dedicated boot partition if you want GRUB-PC installed. There's no place for its boot code in GPT (as it was in the MS-DOS partition table). [pins] -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Certifiable Loonix User #481801 Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1305965054.4298.1@compax
Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder
Hi I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i am having a problem installing debian-builder package i tried to install it from Aptitude (package manager) but there are lot of dependencies they have the message unsatisfactory or unavailable. also i have no luck with apt-get. i do not know how to edit resources.list as root, and donot know to links required to install debian-builder package Please i beg you to help be Fate of my course is in your hands Yasir saeed (please reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vistamkt=en-USform=QBRE
Re: Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder
Yassir Saeed: I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i am having a problem installing debian-builder package Which version of Debian are you running? Etch (=stable), lenny (=testing) or sid (=unstable)? i tried to install it from Aptitude (package manager) but there are lot of dependencies they have the message unsatisfactory or unavailable. Please post the contents of the file /etc/apt/sources.list of your system and the output of 'apt-cache policy debian-builder'. If you are using stable, you shouldn't have any problem installing debian-builder. In the future, please copy and paste the exact error message you receive. also i have no luck with apt-get. i do not know how to edit resources.list as root, Doing something as root means (most of the time) to open a terminal window and type 'su' to change your user ID to root. All commands you enter after 'su'ing will be run as root. To edit files in a terminal, you can use 'vim' (which is hard to use if you do not already know it) or nano (much easier, but not that powerful). J. -- I cannot comprehend the idea of chemical and biological weapons. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Need Desperate Help Installing Debian-Builder
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:33:31PM +0500, Yassir Saeed wrote: I am trying to get my hands dirty with linux as a MS(CS) Advanced Operation system Final Project. So far i am going fine enough, but i am having a problem installing debian-builder package i tried to install it from Aptitude (package manager) but there are lot of dependencies they have the message unsatisfactory or unavailable. also i have no luck with apt-get. i do not know how to edit resources.list as root, and donot know to links required to install debian-builder package Please i beg you to help be Fate of my course is in your hands Yasir saeed (please reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this mean that those of us without a CS anything degree can automatically get a MS(CS) if we've been using CLI debian for years, and can correctly answer your question? Cool. :) If you don't know how to edit resources.list as root then you probably should not be installing debian-builder or trying to build (or rebuild) packages. :) To install packages, you have to be root, however you get there (login, su, sudo, or aptitude asking you for root's password). If anyone but root could edit sources.list then they could Trojan-horse the whole system. Run aptitude update then use aptitude interactively and select debian-builder. If any dependancies are unmet, you'll see it there before you try to install it. You can then poke around and see what's up. Then you'll have to become root. If this is your machine, you will have the root password. If this is not your machine, you'll have to ask the sysadmin for some help. Doug. P.S. My address has been posted to this list before. You can mail my MS(CS) degree at your convenience. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer
On Sunday 14 August 2005 9:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Court Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot from the disk. When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, the installation processing can't find the hard disks. I know that the computer can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9. I've tried using debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc. The IA-64 shouldn't work on your system. That port is designed for the intel Itantium chip. If you want to take adavantage of your 64 bit box, try the AMD64 (x86_64) port of Debian. I ordered a set of Debian 3.1 AMD64 disks. I had no better luck installing from them. Both the AMD64 and i386 disks report that they can find partionable disks. Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel? I tried booting linux26 and expert26 on the i386 distribution. The AMD64 distribution reported that there wasn't a linux26 option (maybe because it only has a 2.6 kernel?). Booting just linux on the AMD64 distribution didn't work either. I tried just about all the options listed from the boot help screen on both distributions, but with no luck. It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have. I have serial ATA drives. The boot.msg file (from a SuSE installation) lists the drive that I hope to install Debian on as a HDS725050KLA360 if that's any help. The primary drive is a Western Digital, but it's formatted for a NTFS file system. I'm keeping my Linux physically separate from that other operating system. Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer
I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot from the disk. When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, the installation processing can't find the hard disks. I know that the computer can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9. I've tried using debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc. I'm not happy with the SUSE installation as I can only acheive a very low screen resolution and the mouse pointer is invisible. I've tried fixing it but with no success. I know that the Debian version would work better since Knoppix provides better screen resolution and the mouse pointer is visible. I would be happy to provide any details necessary to facilitate your assistance. Thanks, Court Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer
Quoting Court Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot from the disk. When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, the installation processing can't find the hard disks. I know that the computer can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9. I've tried using debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc. The IA-64 shouldn't work on your system. That port is designed for the intel Itantium chip. If you want to take adavantage of your 64 bit box, try the AMD64 (x86_64) port of Debian. Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel? It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have. Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer
Court Thomas wrote: I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux. The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system. The BIOS identifies the system as a 64 bit system. That is Intel's implementation of the amd64 architecture previously known as x86-64. This is also known as Intel EM64T. Not to be confused with ia64 which is a different architecture. Intel has recently started rebranding these as 64-bit Xeons. I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck. Strange. Should work fine. I assume that is a 32-bit i686 system? My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot from the disk. That is one problem right there. The ia64 is a completely different architecture unrelated to amd64. Your computer is speaking Klingon and your boot disk is speaking Ferengi. They don't mix. You cannot boot an ia64 disk on your machine. Debian does not officially support the 64-bit amd64 architecture. But there is a thriving unofficial community. I am typing this message on an unofficial 64-bit Debian amd64 system. See this howto for more information. http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html But even though the amd64 project is alive and well I recommend that you stick to a 32-bit installation. You don't seem to need the 64-bit system. Unless you have more than 4GB of ram or are developing for a platform that does then you won't really be able to use the large memory capabilities. And quite frankly (please don't take offense) because you are confused by the architectures I think I would recommend that you keep it simple and stick to the mainstream i386/i686 installation. It will run fine on your machine and it is a tried and true performer. When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, the installation processing can't find the hard disks. To solve this problem we will need more information. What type of disks are in the machine? Serial ATA? You are trying to use a released sarge/stable installation disk? When you boot Knoppix you should be able to determine what type of interface is in the machine with 'lspci'. At the Debian installer prompt you have a choice of either installing the linux 2.4 kernel or the linux 2.6 kernel. The default is the linux 2.4 kernel. Instead I highly recommend installing the linux 2.6 kernel. I am guessing you have SATA drives and will need the newer kernel. I know that the computer can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9. Debian is using the same technology that Knoppix is using. Namely the 'discover' package. Presumably anything that Knoppix boots on the Debian installer disk should also be able to detect. (But of course it is not perfect.) However it makes me wonder if your Debian install disk is really the latest version available. I've tried using debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc. Try debootstrapping the i386 architecture. (Or the amd64 architecture.) The ia64 will not run on your amd64 machine. I'm not happy with the SUSE installation as I can only acheive a very low screen resolution and the mouse pointer is invisible. I've tried fixing it but with no success. I know that the Debian version would work better since Knoppix provides better screen resolution and the mouse pointer is visible. I would be happy to provide any details necessary to facilitate your assistance. Of course over here on the Debian lists we will all agree that you have made a good choice to install on your computer. But from a practical standpoint SuSE's X11 installation should be fine too. I think making a distro choice based upon screen resolution is the wrong criteria. I think you are making the right choice but for the wrong reasons and because of this won't be happy with Debian either. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i just sent in a message with my own subject. Isn't that starting a new thread? But, nevertheless... If you just hit reply, the headers for the e-mail still indicate the old thread. Not all lists work that way, but this one does. So, write a new message and insert the debian user list address for to: Actually, it's not. To start your own thread, you need to mail the list directly, rather than replying. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver
On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i just sent in a message with my own subject. Isn't that starting a new thread? But, nevertheless... Actually, it's not. To start your own thread, you need to mail the list directly, rather than replying. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i just sent in a message with my own subject. Isn't that starting a new thread? But, nevertheless... On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:50:09PM -0800, Sis wrote: ... I just acquired a 2 year old computer with Athlon 1800+ ... Any clues as to how i can install Debian on this box, using the onboard nic, would be greatly appreciated. Caveat: IANAG. I'm not sure how tight the ties are between the kernel and BIOS on things like onboard NICs, but the first place I'd start is in BIOS, looking to disable the onboard one. Bingo! Thank you very much. That's what i did and the nic i inserted is working just fine. Now, if i could just get the nic part of the nvidia onboard to work i would really be thrilled. The Linux section on that forum seems relatively sharp about this sort of stuff. You might consider signing up ( www.amdmb.com and follow the forum link) and posting the question there too. They'll need much more information about the MB, of course, as well as possibly the stock kernel being used. Others here likely could use that info as well. ;-) I will check out their forum. Thank you again. ps Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca I couldn't agree more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver
Hello, I have just subscribed, so please let me know if there is an archived answer/FAQ i should be reading. (I found some but not the answer to my question.) I just acquired a 2 year old computer with Athlon 1800+ motherboard, including an nvidia based NIC. I tried to install Debian using a CD that i normally use and, of course, it doesn't recognize the nic because the nvidia drivers are not provided. I then put in a 3C905 card to temporarily use to get to the network. But when i use the CD, the boot hangs and never gets to the installation. I remove the 3C905 and everything works again... of course, without the network! Argh. Any clues as to how i can install Debian on this box, using the onboard nic, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver
You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:50:09PM -0800, Sis wrote: ... I just acquired a 2 year old computer with Athlon 1800+ motherboard, including an nvidia based NIC. I tried to install Debian using a CD that i normally use and, of course, it doesn't recognize the nic because the nvidia drivers are not provided. I then put in a 3C905 card to temporarily use to get to the network. But when i use the CD, the boot hangs and never gets to the installation. I remove the 3C905 and everything works again... of course, without the network! Argh. Any clues as to how i can install Debian on this box, using the onboard nic, would be greatly appreciated. Caveat: IANAG. I'm not sure how tight the ties are between the kernel and BIOS on things like onboard NICs, but the first place I'd start is in BIOS, looking to disable the onboard one. Second idea is whether you know the card is hardwired to an irq which conflicts directly with something else? (I used to have this happen with ISA--don't know if the same may happen on PCI systems.) Another thought would be to move the card physically to a different slot. There may be early confusion because of sharing the slot's irq/id/whatever-it's-called-thingy with another, major subsystem such as the video card or HD's. (I remember reading something about this on the AMD forum not too long ago.) The Linux section on that forum seems relatively sharp about this sort of stuff. You might consider signing up ( www.amdmb.com and follow the forum link) and posting the question there too. They'll need much more information about the MB, of course, as well as possibly the stock kernel being used. Others here likely could use that info as well. ;-) HTH, Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
Here's what I do, got it from some dual-boot HOWTO or something: 1. The Win2000 system is set up and installed, all OK. 2. Lilo is set up as follows: boot=/dev/hda5 # instead or boot=/dev/hda This is the option to install to the partition instead of the MBR. 3. After running lilo, I run the command dd bs=512 if=/dev/hda5 of= bootsect.lnx count=1 This copies the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda5 to the file bootsect.lnx. 4. Copy the file bootsect.lnx into the root of your Win2000 system. 5. Edit your Windows boot.ini file by adding the line: C:\bootsect.lnx=Debian Linux 6. Now you're good to go. Each time you boot, the Windows boot menu will list Debian Linux as an option. On my system it's the default. The downside to this method is that you have to recreate the bootsect.lnx file every time you you run lilo, but I don't do that too often. HTH, Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Please note new email address
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:20:57PM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard. So...maybe that's the problem my BIOS is having. It could be conflicting with my Promise card's BIOS and not knowing which drive to boot up, so the BIOS overrides anything else. I might be stuck with trying GRUB...but not much is going on there either...I made a GRUB boot disk...and when it boots, it doesn't give me a menu or anything...just says GRUB . I'll get Linux on this machine one way or another. Just don't know the best way to go about doing it. I have a backup of Win2000, and the rest of the drive, so that isn't a problem(not that I know of). Anyone out there have a Promise card, and had Windows2000 installed first, then tried to install Debian? If you did, please let me know how the heck you got it installed. The help would be GREATLY appreciated!!! :)) I'm not giving up... A few years ago, when I was first learning linux, there was a rule that a pc operating system MUST boot off one of the first 2 IDE drives. I believe that wasn't a LILO thing so much as in IA (Intel Architecture) thing. Of course at that time, we had a 512 Mb booting rule too . . . Maybe the above doesn't apply any more, but it might. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything like NT (it is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup Linux to boot from the Windows 2000 bootloader. If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your Windows 2000 installation unbootable. This howto tells you what to do for a Windows NT/Linux dual boot machine. Read it and see if it can apply to Windows 2000 as well. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Matthew
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything like NT (it is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup Linux to boot from the Windows 2000 bootloader. If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your Windows 2000 installation unbootable. This howto tells you what to do for a Windows NT/Linux dual boot machine. Read it and see if it can apply to Windows 2000 as well. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html I really don't know about LILO with this, but I have GRUB in my MBR, and it is able to load W2K using chainloader +1 , but I am not sure if LILO will be able to load it. Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org pgpYToZ26c0N0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything like NT (it is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup Linux to boot from the Windows 2000 bootloader. If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your Windows 2000 installation unbootable. It depends on what kind of filesystem you have chosen for your Win2K installation. If it is NTFS, then you can use lilo to call the Win2K bootloader; Linux can be booted through lilo as usual. If you have used FAT32, then you can use lilo as you would for earlier avatars of Windoze. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com
Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire)
Title: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire) Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd images of Woody? I am willing to give it a whirl. If I can't find the images I might have to go back to Mandrake...shudder... trying to find the light... kris
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire)
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:39:17AM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: | Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot | partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try | again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd | images of Woody? I am willing to give it a whirl. If I can't find the | images I might have to go back to Mandrake...shudder... Grab ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.90-i386-pc.ext2fs and dump it to a floppy disk. Then you can boot with it. If you like grub then I can provide you with more details on configuring and installing it. When booting grub provides you with a preconfigured menu (that is, you configure it by ediing a file, this floppy image comes with a sample config) and a command line so that you can try out various options and see what works. If you installed Linux on /dev/hda1 then you want to have (hd0,0) as your root partition in grub's config. You can dump the image to a floppy using dd if=grub-0.90-i386-pc.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 or you can use rawwritewin if you have a windows system (it's much better now since it has a gui). HTH, -D
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire)
On 2001.09.05 15:39 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd images of Woody? I am willing to give it a whirl. If I can't find the images I might have to go back to Mandrake...shudder... Hey! Don't give up. Debian is a little bit harder to use for newbies, then Mandrake or somthimg like else. But the best Linux i ever used. How i remember you have your Windows on a FAT32 partition? You can put LILO into your MBR. And if you take my suggestion (Linux on the first HD), there are no problems if you install LILO into MBR of this Linux drive. I don't know whether there is a CD image for Woody. But do you have a CD set from Potato? Then install first Potato. Best only the base packages and that was is needed to get an connection to the internet. Using the tool dselect is very good to get an easy upgrade to Woody. And then you can install the other packages are needed of you. There is nothing while booting your new Debian Linux? Do you remember my words that the BIOS only can boot from you first hard disk? If Debian is on another disk you have to set your other disks to none in your BIOS. Then you should be able to boot from your Linux drive. After you have configured your LILO correct, you can put your other drives again into the BIOS. Timo
RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire) Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I would like to stay with LILO if possible. I'm about to break down and install it onto the same drive as Win2000. I'll just make another partition on it...I have 20 gigs free on it so I don't have a problem with installing something else on it. Then some of the tutorials and the installation might make sense. -Original Message- From: Timeboy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:46 AM To: LaGuardia, Kristofer S. Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire) On 2001.09.05 15:39 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Okay, I didn't install LILO to the MBR. I did install it to the boot partition. However, nothing came up at boot time. Oh well, i will try again tonight...maybe I'm just missing something. Where would I find cd images of Woody? I am willing to give it a whirl. If I can't find the images I might have to go back to Mandrake...shudder... Hey! Don't give up. Debian is a little bit harder to use for newbies, then Mandrake or somthimg like else. But the best Linux i ever used. How i remember you have your Windows on a FAT32 partition? You can put LILO into your MBR. And if you take my suggestion (Linux on the first HD), there are no problems if you install LILO into MBR of this Linux drive. I don't know whether there is a CD image for Woody. But do you have a CD set from Potato? Then install first Potato. Best only the base packages and that was is needed to get an connection to the internet. Using the tool dselect is very good to get an easy upgrade to Woody. And then you can install the other packages are needed of you. There is nothing while booting your new Debian Linux? Do you remember my words that the BIOS only can boot from you first hard disk? If Debian is on another disk you have to set your other disks to none in your BIOS. Then you should be able to boot from your Linux drive. After you have configured your LILO correct, you can put your other drives again into the BIOS. Timo
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:32:13AM -0600, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: | Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like | to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the | C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I would | like to stay with LILO if possible. I'm about to break down and install it | onto the same drive as Win2000. I'll just make another partition on it...I | have 20 gigs free on it so I don't have a problem with installing something | else on it. Then some of the tutorials and the installation might make | sense. Go with GRUB! It works beautifully. There is a Dell machine at work that has win2k on the beginning of the (big) hard drive and RH on the end. LILO (that came with RH6.2 anyways) had trouble booting Linux because it was too far into the disk, and I couldn't get it to boot win2k at all. Then I tried grub and had no trouble with either OS. In addition, my home PC had win98 on the first hard disk (ide bus 0) and Debian on the second hard disk (ide bus 1). LILO couldn't boot linux because my BIOS was too crappy to boot from the second disk (it was a compaq machine). After my good experience with grub at work I tried it at home and it had no trouble dual-booting! IMO grub is much easier to configure and use than lilo too. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub HTH, -D
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000 or thereabouts, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything like NT (it is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup Linux to boot from the Windows 2000 bootloader. If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your Windows 2000 installation unbootable. ...snipped... i object! always wanted to say that. :-) i have win2k, linux, freebsd on my box and i use lilo to boot each OS. letting the win2k bootloader to boot your linux partition will only make it hard for you should you choose to recompile your kernel. pgpFGIVTXZyO6.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 How did you do it? Also, do you have Win2000 on your first drive and then Debian on your second drive? -Original Message- From: Rino Mardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:16 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17 On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000 or thereabouts, Matthew Dalton wrote: Hall Stevenson wrote: No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything like NT (it is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup Linux to boot from the Windows 2000 bootloader. If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your Windows 2000 installation unbootable. ...snipped... i object! always wanted to say that. :-) i have win2k, linux, freebsd on my box and i use lilo to boot each OS. letting the win2k bootloader to boot your linux partition will only make it hard for you should you choose to recompile your kernel.
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:32:13 -0600 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I would like to stay with LILO if possible. I'm about to break down and install it onto the same drive as Win2000. I'll just make another partition on it...I have 20 gigs free on it so I don't have a problem with installing something else on it. Then some of the tutorials and the installation might make sense. If you're that desperate, I suggest just going to the bios and temporarily tagging drive C as uninstalled. That way it won't boot even if you can't get LILO to dual boot. Just install your bootloader on drive D (hdb), and forget that drive C exists. I once did that in my dark Window$ days so I can get two different Window$ installations to live in peace and harmony. Now if you want Bill back, just go to the bios and do the reverse, tag D as uninstalled and C as installed.
RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire )
Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire ) I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard. So...maybe that's the problem my BIOS is having. It could be conflicting with my Promise card's BIOS and not knowing which drive to boot up, so the BIOS overrides anything else. I might be stuck with trying GRUB...but not much is going on there either...I made a GRUB boot disk...and when it boots, it doesn't give me a menu or anything...just says GRUB . I'll get Linux on this machine one way or another. Just don't know the best way to go about doing it. I have a backup of Win2000, and the rest of the drive, so that isn't a problem(not that I know of). Anyone out there have a Promise card, and had Windows2000 installed first, then tried to install Debian? If you did, please let me know how the heck you got it installed. The help would be GREATLY appreciated!!! :)) I'm not giving up... -Original Message- From: csj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:24 PM To: LaGuardia, Kristofer S. Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain misfire ) On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:32:13 -0600 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would really really like to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is installed on the C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I would like to stay with LILO if possible. I'm about to break down and install it onto the same drive as Win2000. I'll just make another partition on it...I have 20 gigs free on it so I don't have a problem with installing something else on it. Then some of the tutorials and the installation might make sense. If you're that desperate, I suggest just going to the bios and temporarily tagging drive C as uninstalled. That way it won't boot even if you can't get LILO to dual boot. Just install your bootloader on drive D (hdb), and forget that drive C exists. I once did that in my dark Window$ days so I can get two different Window$ installations to live in peace and harmony. Now if you want Bill back, just go to the bios and do the reverse, tag D as uninstalled and C as installed.
Help installing Debian 2.2r17
Title: Help installing Debian 2.2r17 I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard drives are arranged as: First Drive - 30GB - Windows 2000 Only(FAT32 full drive) Second Drive - 13 GB - Linux Only (Two partitions with one as swap) Third Drive - 10GB - FAT32 Full drive and to be used as a shared drive for both OSs I'm pretty good at following instructions, and am quite a newbie at this sort of thin, but am getting pretty sick of all the MS bull and having to have this and that licensed. I've read documentation on dual-booting, but there are some steps that don't make any sense to me since they are either written for Mandrake, or they don't use the same version of Debian as I have. I have 2.2r17, and i get to partitioning my hard drive. I'm not new to computers, but am new to the terminology used in Linux. I understand that I need at least two partitions for Linux. So on my second drive I create a Linux swap type partition(512MB because I have 256MB of RAM), and then the rest of the drive is just a Linux partition. Quick question, if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... I then get all the way to the step when it asks me to mount the swap, so I select the partition for swap...then the same for Linux...no problem. I had set both as primary, but the non-swap partition as boot. is that correct? Or should Linux type be primary and the swap type to be logical? Then it asks me if I want to install LILO to MBR or to the partition, right? So I choose to the partition...then it asks me if I want to boot into Linux when I start the computer, and I say yes. is this all correct for a dual boot? Then I don't know what to do. There's also a question I have about the video card detection. It mentions it can scan the PCI...does this also mean it will check AGP(or is AGP also part of the PCI?)? I need a tutorial on how to get Windows 2000(C:), to dual boot with Debian on a different physical drive(D:). On a side note, anyone know of a Debian tutorial on setting up @HOME? Just a brief walkthrough would be nice... Thanks to anyone who is willing to spend some time with a newbie who wants to learn this challenging OS, but needs a little guidance. Thanks! Kris the Lost
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard drives are arranged as... No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. I think many of the problems people see with dual-booting is that they're installing Linux on the same drive as their Windows setup. Hall
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
Hi, Glad to hear about you using the Linux OS. and Debian is a great Dist. to use, a little more tricky than most others, (mandrake, etc) but in the end, I think you may prefer it over others. Quoting LaGuardia, Kristofer S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. Firstly, 2.217 isn't the latest kernel, check out potato r3, if you want the stable release of debian, goto woody or sid if your into the newest stuff. if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... I think there are different ways of doing this, but for now, you could just create a 3rd partition in the same way as your / partition. Then specify a mount point during the install process. for example: you would make hda1 -- swap hda2 -- linux mounted to / hda3 -- linux mounted to /usr I then get all the way to the step when it asks me to mount the swap, so I select the partition for swap...then the same for Linux...no problem. I had set both as primary, but the non-swap partition as boot. is that correct? yes asks me if I want to install LILO to MBR or to the partition, right? So I choose to the partition...then it asks me if I want to boot into Linux when I start the computer, and I say yes. is this all correct for a dual boot? This part can be tricky, becuase I don't know how Windows2000 handles its booting. Usually, I would install all my OS's first, and then install Debian last. and use its boot manager to decice which OS I wanted. After you install Linux, and then boot into it, you have to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file to setup your other OS's. Then run lilo from the command prompt to set the boot loader, and then your done. Check out www.linuxdoc.org and goto the HOW to's, they have some good stuff in there. Feel free to post more detailed questions here if you get stuck. Hope this helps a bit:) Cheers, Mike
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard drives. The hard drives are arranged as: guess you can't find anything because 2.2r17 is far from being released, if ever ;-) Where is the problem? It makes no difference for Linux if its on another partition on the same drive or on a different drive. Just make sure you got the names right: the second IDE drive is hdb; the first partitio is hdb1, the second is hdb2... ; logical ones start counting at 5! First Drive - 30GB - Windows 2000 Only(FAT32 full drive) Second Drive - 13 GB - Linux Only (Two partitions with one as swap) Third Drive - 10GB - FAT32 Full drive and to be used as a shared drive for both OSs I am not sure about lilo in potato but i think the one thats in the distri has no longer the problem with the 1024 cylinders. have this and that licensed. I've read documentation on dual-booting, but there are some steps that don't make any sense to me since they are either written for Mandrake, or they don't use the same version of Debian as I have. I have 2.2r17, and i get to partitioning my hard drive. I'm not new should make no big differnce, if at all! to computers, but am new to the terminology used in Linux. I understand that I need at least two partitions for Linux. So on my second drive I create a Linux swap type partition(512MB because I have 256MB of RAM), and then the rest of the drive is just a Linux partition. Quick question, if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... 256 MB of swap seems far to much for me, but partitioning is a kind of art and experience but should be all right for the beginnig. If you create a partition for e.g. /usr you just tell the setup that you want to mount /usr there. There is one point in the setup where you create your partitions and then there is a step which says use existing partitions (I am not sure about the right useage of sentences) thats what you whant. I then get all the way to the step when it asks me to mount the swap, so I select the partition for swap...then the same for Linux...no problem. I had set both as primary, but the non-swap partition as boot. is that correct? No, if you have only 2 partitions the one shuld be swap and the other should be / I don't think the setup would let yo ugoing on without specifying the root partition. Or should Linux type be primary and the swap type to be logical? Then it asks me if I want to install LILO to MBR or to the partition, right? So I choose to the partition...then it asks me if I want to boot into Linux when I start the computer, and I say yes. is this all correct for a dual boot? I woul drecommed to install lilo in the mbr and let lilo boot Linux or W2k otherwise you need a bootmanager that is able to boot lilo. Then I don't know what to do. There's also a question I have about the video card detection. It mentions it can scan the PCI...does this also mean it will check AGP(or is AGP also part of the PCI?)? Don't know about that, but Debian was quite good in detecting my hardware, so why not letting it go and see what it does. You can change everything later if somethings wrong. I need a tutorial on how to get Windows 2000(C:), to dual boot with Debian on a different physical drive(D:). See above. On a side note, anyone know of a Debian tutorial on setting up @HOME? Just a brief walkthrough would be nice... what is @HOME? Debain on a home PC? How about http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst ?? Thanks to anyone who is willing to spend some time with a newbie who wants to learn this challenging OS, but needs a little guidance. Thanks! Kris the Lost Don't give up, Debian is worth it. Frank
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On 2001.09.04 11:51 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Quick question, if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... Hope i understand this question! What do you mean with specify a partition? Ok. I think you like to know wheter there is a different between a root and a /usr partition. The answer is no. Only the swap partition is a special one. All others are ext2 partitions. This is the standart, like fat32 in windows. You can have a lot of ext2 partitions on your Linux system. For best HD performance you should have only the root ( / ) partition. I don't know why it shold be good to have a seperate /usr partition I only have some extra pertitions for software, that has nothing to do with the Debian system like audio files and sources and other stuff, that i have to save on my HD for a little time. And i have a /home partition, cause i also here save a lot of own software like HTML sites for the web. All this partitions you can initialize while installing Debian after the part for partiton a HD. I then get all the way to the step when it asks me to mount the swap, so I select the partition for swap...then the same for Linux...no problem. I had set both as primary, but the non-swap partition as boot. is that correct? No! If you like to have only one ext2 partition, you have to set this to / partition. This is the highest level of the Linux directory tree. On this partition you can mount the /boot partition if nessessary. But on the /boot partitin you can't install the Debian system that needs the / partition as highest place. Both partitions as primary is ok. Linux makes no differents between primary and extended. You can use both possibilities. Or should Linux type be primary and the swap type to be logical? Do it how you like!! Then it asks me if I want to install LILO to MBR or to the partition, right? So I choose to the partition...then it asks me if I want to boot into Linux when I start the computer, and I say yes. is this all correct for a dual boot? No! First: For a dual boot you need to install LILO in the MBR of your first hard disk. If you have your windows allready installed on your first HD, you should change your disks if possible. If your Windows goes to slave, you will have no big problems with installing LILO into MBR of your master hard disk cause it's a Linux HD now. If you then boot your Debian at first time, you will only have access to your first hard disk. But this you can do, to be able to boot both systems: edit your /etc/lilo.conf. You can use the editor vi. Install vi if not installed and type as root: vi /etc/lilo.conf To insert text into this file you need to type the i. Only after this you can put new text into this lilo.conf file. If all is donne use Escape to leave the insert modus. And with :wq you will write your changes to hd and exit of vi. This is my /etc/lilo.conf, written for Linux on first and Windows on second drive: lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map # password=tatercounter2000 # message=/boot/bootmess.txt prompt timeout=100 vga=0x133 ---for biger letters in console you should set: vga=normal default=Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb label=win map-drive=0x80 ---This and the following lines will change your to=0x81 drive addresses for the BIOS, which can normally map-drive=0x81 only boot from first drive. to=0x80 After you have modified your /etc/lilo.conf you have to type on console: lilo This will write your new configured Lilo into MBR. That's all!! Then I don't know what to do. There's also a question I have about the video card detection. It mentions it can scan the PCI...does this also mean it will check AGP(or is AGP also part of the PCI?)? Yes! I also have an AGP card but the kernel tells me thomething about PCI. This is ok. I need a tutorial on how to get Windows 2000(C:), to dual boot with Debian on a different physical drive(D:). Hope my suggestions will be enough. It's very easy to boot more systems with Lilo and you don't need much knowledge about this. On a side note, anyone know of a Debian tutorial on setting up @HOME? Just a brief walkthrough would be nice... I can suggest you the book Debian GNU Linux Guide. You should get it in all good book shops. And you can ask us more. If you have not yet installed the debian packages manpages and man-db: do it. For the example Lilo: man lilo will give you some more informations about this boot loader. And there are much more man pages for all kommands, tools and so on. Timo
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
A little warning: image=/boot/vmlinuz-!! root=/dev/hda9 append=idebus=33 hdc=ide-scsi label=Linux read-only My vmlinuz is on this place: /boot/vmlinuz. But i mean yours will be: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. You can let this part of lilo.conf on your current settings. /vmlinuz should it be. Cause there is a link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 on /. Check this if lilo makes an error message. Timo
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On 2001.09.04 21:56 Timeboy wrote: A little warning: image=/boot/vmlinuz-!! root=/dev/hda9 append=idebus=33 hdc=ide-scsi label=Linux read-only My vmlinuz is on this place: /boot/vmlinuz. But i mean yours will be: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17. You can let this part of lilo.conf on your current settings. /vmlinuz should it be. Cause there is a link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 on /. Check this if lilo makes an error message. Timo
Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
On 2001.09.04 21:39 Timeboy wrote: On 2001.09.04 11:51 LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote: Quick question, if I want to create a partition for /usr, how would I specify the partition is for /usr? Is it a type? Anyhow... Hope i understand this question! What do you mean with specify a partition? Ok. I think you like to know wheter there is a different between a root and a /usr partition. The answer is no. Only the swap partition is a special one. All others are ext2 partitions. This is the standart, like fat32 in windows. You can have a lot of ext2 partitions on your Linux system. For best HD performance you should have only the root ( / ) partition. I don't know why it shold be good to have a seperate /usr partition I only have some extra pertitions for software, that has nothing to do with the Debian system like audio files and sources and other stuff, that i have to save on my HD for a little time. And i have a /home partition, cause i also here save a lot of own software like HTML sites for the web. All this partitions you can initialize while installing Debian after the part for partiton a HD. I then get all the way to the step when it asks me to mount the swap, so I select the partition for swap...then the same for Linux...no problem. I had set both as primary, but the non-swap partition as boot. is that correct? No! If you like to have only one ext2 partition, you have to set this to / partition. This is the highest level of the Linux directory tree. On this partition you can mount the /boot partition if nessessary. But on the /boot partitin you can't install the Debian system that needs the / partition as highest place. Both partitions as primary is ok. Linux makes no differents between primary and extended. You can use both possibilities. Or should Linux type be primary and the swap type to be logical? Do it how you like!! Then it asks me if I want to install LILO to MBR or to the partition, right? So I choose to the partition...then it asks me if I want to boot into Linux when I start the computer, and I say yes. is this all correct for a dual boot? No! First: For a dual boot you need to install LILO in the MBR of your first hard disk. If you have your windows allready installed on your first HD, you should change your disks if possible. If your Windows goes to slave, you will have no big problems with installing LILO into MBR of your master hard disk cause it's a Linux HD now. If you then boot your Debian at first time, you will only have access to your first hard disk. But this you can do, to be able to boot both systems: edit your /etc/lilo.conf. You can use the editor vi. Install vi if not installed and type as root: vi /etc/lilo.conf To insert text into this file you need to type the i. Only after this you can put new text into this lilo.conf file. If all is donne use Escape to leave the insert modus. And with :wq you will write your changes to hd and exit of vi. This is my /etc/lilo.conf, written for Linux on first and Windows on second drive: lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map # password=tatercounter2000 # message=/boot/bootmess.txt prompt timeout=100 vga=0x133 ---for biger letters in console you should set: vga=normal default=Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hdb1 table=/dev/hdb label=win map-drive=0x80 ---This and the following lines will change your to=0x81 drive addresses for the BIOS, which can normally map-drive=0x81 only boot from first drive. to=0x80 After you have modified your /etc/lilo.conf you have to type on console: lilo This will write your new configured Lilo into MBR. That's all!! Then I don't know what to do. There's also a question I have about the video card detection. It mentions it can scan the PCI...does this also mean it will check AGP(or is AGP also part of the PCI?)? Yes! I also have an AGP card but the kernel tells me thomething about PCI. This is ok. I need a tutorial on how to get Windows 2000(C:), to dual boot with Debian on a different physical drive(D:). Hope my suggestions will be enough. It's very easy to boot more systems with Lilo and you don't need much knowledge about this. On a side note, anyone know of a Debian tutorial on setting up @HOME? Just a brief walkthrough would be nice... I can suggest you the book Debian GNU Linux Guide. You should get it in all good book shops. And you can ask us more. If you have not yet installed the debian packages manpages and man-db: do it. For the example Lilo: man lilo will give you some more informations about this boot loader. And there are much more man pages for all kommands, tools and so on. Timo
Help installing Debian-LINUX
Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How can I do it? Can I install it in D:\ without disturbing the windows-98 which is in c: drive? Do I have to repartition the hard disk while installing Debian-LINUX? If I succeed in installing how can I swith between operating systems? Please help me in these matters. Email me at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Help installing Debian-LINUX
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:07:18AM +0530, Smruti Jena wrote: Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How can I do it? Can I install it in D:\ without disturbing the windows-98 which is in c: drive? Do I have to repartition the hard disk while installing Debian-LINUX? If I succeed in installing how can I swith between operating systems? You should take the time to read the installation instructions at - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst Yes you can install debian on the disk in question without disturbing Windows. I'm assuming you are installing from a bootable cd disk. Slap the cd in and boot. Make sure the bios is set to boot off the cdrom. You will be asked to partion the disk. At that point you should create your debian partitions on what would be the D: partition looking from your windows side. After you have installed debian you can dual boot with Lilo or Grub. Keep in mind that if you make the wrong move during the partitioning/creating filesytem stage you could hose your Windows side -- so make a backup. hth, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of The Panther - R. M. Rilke
Re: Help installing Debian-LINUX
On Thu, 24 May 2001 10:07:18, Smruti wrote: Hello I am a new user of LINUX, want to install Debian-LINUX in my system. I already have windows-98 in my system. I have a 20GB hard disk partitioned into 4 Drives. I want to install LINUX in one of my pre-exixting partitions(e,g : D/). How can I do it? Can I install it in D:\ without disturbing the windows-98 which is in c: drive? Do I have to repartition the hard disk while installing Debian-LINUX? If I succeed in installing how can I swith between operating systems? Please help me in these matters. For a good reference on how to set up your machine for dual-boot, see the document at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/ It is quite detailed, will explain all the necessary steps for the install. -- Paul T. Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -currently seeking employment-
Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian
Jan Enning wrote (on 20 May 2001, at 21:17): I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message: Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS on 01:00 What have I missed? Please help! Similar experience yesterday trying to repair the installation on my Toshiba. (I needed to neutralize /etc/init.d/pcmcia in order to boot after stupidly apt-get-upgrading to a wrong package.) Anyway, I recently upgraded my iso images from 2.2 r0 to r3, and now the gear in the install directory on CD 1 only got me as far as the same message you noted. Fortunately I still had the 2.2 r0 CDs with me, and they worked! Has something been broken? Is anyone interested in more detail? T. -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian
Well I've got a 'solution' :-) The reason I didn't use any floppy is simple because they are most of the time broken, old, etc...not very reliable. But if you don't have any bandwidth, stick with the floppy :-) I downloaded the complete Debian ISO and burned it on a CD, then bought a crappy ATA 50X cd-rom drive for $30. The reason that I did this was that the ATA drives are really plug and play AND bootable! I think on every pentium u can boot with this kind of drive. Now I only plugged it to my OLD P133 and ready to go! No boot floppy's, corrupted files, missing sectors etc... Before I used 'windoos 98' bootfloppy's to get CD-rom support and then booted Debian from DOS. With the Crappy ATA drive you're the king :) I hope it helped u a bit :) Good luck! kleinejan Hello guys! I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message: Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS on 01:00 What have I missed? Please help! Thanks and more power. Arnold * J a n E n n i n g MoBiLe:06-26 106 926 faX:020 88 26 297 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kleinejan.org ICQ:5506065
HELP!!! Installing Debian
Hello guys! I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message: Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS on 01:00 What have I missed? Please help! Thanks and more power. Arnold
Re: HELP!!! Installing Debian
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:18:30PM -0700, Arnold Canete wrote: Hello guys! I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the the following message: Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS on 01:00 What have I missed? Please help! I take it that you don't have a bootable CD-ROM? If so just boot off the CD. If you've downloaded the disk images, boot off the floppies. Looking above you haven't said whether or not you did either. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 pgpQGkpQRv7Xr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help installing debian first time
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:18:53PM +0100, Tobias Hahn wrote: Hi! I purchased a new computer and I would like to install debian on it. If possible, I would like to install kernel 2.4. Is this possible from the beginning of the installation? If not so, is there a way to build custom boot cds/floppies containing at least reiserfs? I don't know how stable the woody boot-floppies are. Maybe it would be the safest way, that you install a normal potato system and them upgrade your kernel. There have been some notes how to use 2.4 in potato on this list. Do you really need reiserfs in the boot-floppies? You could make /boot ext2 and the rest could be reiserfs. -- Thomas Guettler Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.interface-business.de Private:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/guettli
Help installing debian first time
Hi! I purchased a new computer and I would like to install debian on it. If possible, I would like to install kernel 2.4. Is this possible from the beginning of the installation? If not so, is there a way to build custom boot cds/floppies containing at least reiserfs? I am new to Debian but not to Linux, so don't be afraid to get technical. Thanx! Tobias
Help installing Debian
Hi, I am trying to install Debian on two workstations. They have Promise Ultra66 cards to which the hard drive is attached. The install kernel does not support these cards, but the (CheapBytes) installation CD has in dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66 a readme which says that this (udma66) directory has a kernel image which contains support for the very Promise Ultra66 cards I'm trying to support. Moreover, there is a ../udma66 directory with a drivers.tgz file. How do I do I get this working? I have unplugged the hard drive cable from the Promise card and plugged it into the primary IDE slot on the motherboard; this enables me to install, however, now Win2K will not boot, so I need to get the card support working somehow. Is there some way I can build in the Ultra66 support while running Linux through the motherboard, turn it off, and reposition the cable, and be happy? Please help, Thanks, Glenn
RE: [lug] *440MHz, 512MB UltraSPARC 10 with FLAT 21 Color Monitor* Help installing Debian
Hi, If anyone needs a very powerful workstation to run Linux, I have several 440MHz, 512MB UltraSPARC 10 with FLAT 21 Color Monitor 19.8 v.a which will be sold almost at cost. If interested, if interested please goto to http://www.novustar.com/sunultra/index.htm. IF you'll like to get one, please reply before January 1,2001 to take advantage of the existing price. Thanks. Glenn, I will get back to you within the next weeks, the guru who knows about Debian is on vacation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glenn Murray Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 12:47 PM To: Boulder Linux User's Group; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: [lug] Help installing Debian Hi, I am trying to install Debian on two workstations. They have Promise Ultra66 cards to which the hard drive is attached. The install kernel does not support these cards, but the (CheapBytes) installation CD has in dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66 a readme which says that this (udma66) directory has a kernel image which contains support for the very Promise Ultra66 cards I'm trying to support. Moreover, there is a ../udma66 directory with a drivers.tgz file. How do I do I get this working? I have unplugged the hard drive cable from the Promise card and plugged it into the primary IDE slot on the motherboard; this enables me to install, however, now Win2K will not boot, so I need to get the card support working somehow. Is there some way I can build in the Ultra66 support while running Linux through the motherboard, turn it off, and reposition the cable, and be happy? Please help, Thanks, Glenn ___ Web Page: http://lug.boulder.co.us Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug
I need help Installing Debian 2.0 (Intel) for first time
Hi; (My System:QDI 430TX motherboard,CyriX 200MMX CPU and 96MG Edo Ram) I am new to Linux Debian, Also I am not a programmer. I have tried to install Debian 2.0 (Intel)from CD. I have Win98 on my 4.3GB hard drive so I cleared 2.4G and managed to create a 200Mg root partition dev/hda3, a 96MG ((is this much necessary? )swap partition dev/hda7 an a 2.1+GB linux partition dev/hda8 and have reached the Configure Device Drivers step; but I am unsure what settings to use. Here is a list of the additional hardware I have: HP 7100i CD Writer ( uses Direct CD for writing data and Easy Cd for writing audio ) Philips DRD 5200 DVD ROM Matrox Millennium II ( 4MG ) Real Magic Hollywood 2 Mpeg2 Card US Robotic Sportster 56.6K Fax\Voice Modem Flyvideo II ( TV Tuner Card ) Standard serial mouse Can you please let me know what I must do to get them to run in Linux?. Also at one attempted to install I left Configure Device Drivers blank, then when I reached the list of access methods in Dselect, when I chose cdrom it requested the Block I do not know what this is. I read the Dselect documentation for beginners but it has no mention of this. It does talk about mounting your CD could you explain what mounting is and how I can mount the CD drives mentioned above. Finally can you recommend the best learning materials for learning how to use and get the most out of Linux ( remembering I am a beginner ) Thanks Chris _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: I need help Installing Debian 2.0 (Intel) for first time
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Help installing Debian on UMSDOS file system?
I'm trying to install Debian on my wife's laptop that's currently running Windows 95. She's afraid that if I repartition it to make space for Linux, that she won't be able to reinstall all the Win95 software that's on the disk (it's a Compaq, and they don't ship Win95 installation CDs with their boxes). So, I'm trying to make a UMSDOS partition and set up Debian using that. The Debian installation system doesn't seem to support UMSDOS based installation directly, although I've managed to put a UMSDOS-aware kernel on the rescue disk and get it to boot. I untarred the base_2.0.tgz file into a top level target directory that I'vecalled linux, as that's what loadlin and the UMSDOS-aware kernels seem to want for their root file systems. The Debian installation system wants to mount a partition itself; I tried mounting my UMSDOS partition by hand, but Debian didn't like it (though I don't know the magic to get /dev/hda1/linux mounted directly as a UMSDOS partition; so this may be why Debian doesn't see it). Debian said your system is unconfigured and maybe you need to install your rescue disk into the floppy drive and reboot. I've been using Debian since late '93, and have it installed on all my other computers, but this one has me stumped. Hopefully, someone can tell me: a) what the Debian does when configuring the base system so that I can do that by hand? b) how and where to mount the /linux directory UMSDOS partition so that the Debian installation system recognizes it as a valid Debian system that I can then complete the configuration on? c) is there some other way to install onto a UMSDOS paritition? d) there used to be dpkg.tar that you could use to bootstrap the installation process with; I can't find it anymore...is it still in existence? I tried installing the IronWing distribution which does run out of the box in a UMSDOS partition and then upgrading it to Debian, but I got stuck when trying to install the Debian glibc (IronWing is Slackware based, and is somewhat behind the times in the versions of software that are available for it; also, its /etc files use the different rc.d setup (no init.d), so installing .deb packages tends to lose when they try to set up their rc files). I appreciate any help that you can provide. Thanks! Steve
HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines
My father wants to make some changes in his Bussines and I am trying to get Debian/Linux into those changes. I will explain myself: He is going to change his system: Computer: FUJITSU TITAN2600 (with 24 terminals) O.S.: PICK O.A. v5.2 With: Terminal based menues for entering, changing, checking data on each terminal. With a network (Debian if I can help it) The idea is that if I can give him a Debian/Linux based system which fits his needs he installs it, also he wants tu use ( at least for a while) his old programs so something like a PICK O.A. interpreter should be perfect and also needs to port the data to the new system. What I think he needs: -A PICK interpreter or so. -Something to convert the old data. -Some program to later on replace that ¿PICK interpreter? -Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. Thanks in advence: Ranty PS: I may be asking for too much, but I have faith in Linux and I had to try. PS2:I am opened to any sugestion, Idea... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think he needs: A PICK interpreter or so. Something to convert the old data. Some program to later on replace that PICK interpreter? Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. That sounds like a pretty complete list. However, it's likely to be a significant effort! (Gawd, PICK. Makes me feel old I just turned 30). You biggest challange is likely to be finding a PICK interpreter. IIRC, there used to be a dual universe system running PICK over SCO or something similar, but I've no idea where you'd try to find such a beast. I'd suggest you try Fujitsu first... they'll probably want to sell you something but you might get some useful information. Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP: Installing Debian in a Bussines
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My father wants to make some changes in his Bussines and I am trying to get Debian/Linux into those changes. I will explain myself: He is going to change his system: Computer: FUJITSU TITAN2600 (with 24 terminals) O.S.: PICK O.A. v5.2 With: Terminal based menues for entering, changing, checking data on each terminal. With a network (Debian if I can help it) The idea is that if I can give him a Debian/Linux based system which fits his needs he installs it, also he wants tu use ( at least for a while) his old programs so something like a PICK O.A. interpreter should be perfect and also needs to port the data to the new system. What I think he needs: -A PICK interpreter or so. I don't know of any freeware PICK product. PICK Systems make a Linux version of their software; you can also run JBase. You can run a SCO version of UniVerse if you use the iBCS kernel module to run COFF executables. -Something to convert the old data. Write a DataBasic program to dump data out to tape in a set format. Read it in again on the new machine. (If the OA system is co-existing with Unix you could perhaps make a network connection. -Some program to later on replace that ¿PICK interpreter? The PICK data model is unique. If you use an SQL database like PostgreSQL, you will need to rework the design of the database; multi-valued fields will have to be normalised. It's a big job. -Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel. You will need to define input and dump routines for both systems (unless the traffic is one-way only). Do the update via tape. [for tape read floppy if appropriate] -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP INSTALLING DEBIAN!!
Hello everybody! This one's for all of you linux pros out there... I just downloaded all of the debian installation disks, and tried to install them on an IBM PS/2. However, it does not work Linux will not detect my hard drive. I think that it said somewhere that there was no support for the micro-channel bus that the PS/2 PCs use. Is there any fix for this?? I would really, really love to have Linux on my machine!! Is there any special rescue disk that you have that will have the support for my hard drive?? Please let me know. I would really, really appreciate it. I am extremely new at this (meaning: first time install), so I don't know what to do. Thanks so much for your help! Roman Rodriguez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help installing Debian on a Thinkpad
I am trying to install Debian (1.2) on my Thinkpad 365XD. I cannot get the rescue disk to boot (I have tries both the 12/8/96 and the 1/4/97 disk sets). The symptoms are as follows. I put the floppy in the (external) drive and power-up the machine (same thing happens on warm reboots). I get through the 'boot:' prompt screens by either typing nothing or 'linux floppy=thinkpad'. In either case, I get 'Loading root.bin' and then 'Loading Linux.' and then nothing happens. I had this trouble before Christmas (and have not solved it since then) and I was forced to try installing Slackware 3.0. For Slackware, the installation works just fine and I could even get a poor looking X going. Now however, if I try to latex anything, I get a kernel OOPS and a segmentation fault. TeX seems to work, but both TeX and LaTeX are symlinks to virtex. I would really appreciate any assistance on this problem. Thank you, Paul Rightley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing debian Other packages
Hi all, I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386), but I don't know how to fix it. If I click on the file (using Netscape Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen. If I right click on the file icon, and use the Save Link As.. option, I can save it to my hard disk. The problem is that it is not saving this in a binary format. I can go to the Netscape options (Options | General Preferences... | helpers) and add in the deb extention to the application/x-compress entry but this still doesn't work. I went through compuserve and retrieved the same file using their ftp menu and then compared them (saved the same file with a different name) doing a DOS command fc win95tmp.deb cmpsvtmp.deb /b and they are way different. I can copy them both to diskette and the one that I downloaded from compuserve will work but the other one won't. What is wrong here? Regards, -- --- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Life is not a spectator sport... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing debian Other packages
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Wayne Richardson wrote: I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. Are you *certain* that you are transferring them in BINARY mode? Do you have your floppy drive mounted so that it does automatic *nix-DOS conversion? (It shouldn't.) | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED | | from ALL commercial mailing lists. EVERY message sent from this | | account has had this request posted. ALL UNSOLICITED ADVERTISEMENTS | | SENT TO THIS ACCOUNT ARE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL (U.S.) LAW.| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help installing debian Other packages
Hi all, I have installed the Debian linux system on my system but am now having problems installing other packages. I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. For example, I have transferred the gzip-1_2_4-10.deb file to the Debian Linux system and now want to install it. I can issue the following command line: dpkg --install gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I then get the following error: dpkg-deb: 'gzip-1_2_4-10.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing dpkg_1_2_11elf.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I am pretty sure that it is a valid binary file because I have downloaded other binary files the same way and have had no problems with them. I have also tried installing a number of other debian packages and get the same error. Is there anything special that I need to do with these debian packages before I try to install them? What am I doing wrong? TIA, P.S. I am pretty new to this UNIX game (coming from wintel programming), so I would appreciate it if you could detail your explanations. --- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Life is not a spectator sport... --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
