Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 02:58 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? Can you boot into a small Linux on a Live CD, e.g. can you boot into http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start ? Did you test Linux that aren't Debian based? E.g. Suse and/or Fedora? Regards, Ralf -- 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/1347264224.11998.46.camel@precise
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
Thanks for all the help! I finally was able to do an installation, and have now lubuntu 12.10 beta running- It seems, it is not using th e nonfree nvidia drivers, I do have installed libvdpau1 ubuntu-drivers-common xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa.dri (all installed by default by the installer) The problem I mentiones in the original post, that the livecd with lubuntu went into a black screen, is strange, but I found it could be solved by using the F3 key. Kjetil On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 02:58 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? Can you boot into a small Linux on a Live CD, e.g. can you boot into http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start ? Did you test Linux that aren't Debian based? E.g. Suse and/or Fedora? Regards, Ralf -- 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/1347264224.11998.46.camel@precise -- If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. George Orwell (1984) -- 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/CAH=m5MiTAyXVARtaF1X1nJg2hVq-=Jatv1Sbg3QDa=6ioef...@mail.gmail.com
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
Have you tried Slackware 13.37 yet? That might work, I have an ancient Dell laptop and Slackware had no problems installing and running on that laptop. It hasn't got an especially large footprint either. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- 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/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209090352530.24...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? The very latest Knoppix? That's likely to get new drivers before most installable distributions. Knoppix isn't suitable for permanent installation, as it isn't maintained, but it's mostly based on Debian sid and drivers should be transferrable. At the very least, the problem area should be identified. -- Joe -- 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/20120909092823.28188...@jretrading.com
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? Contact a Ubuntu mailing list/forum? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? This is about as vague as it gets. Some problem in some program on an unspecified image. Tiredness really has set in. :) If for some reason you insist on installing Wheezy rather than Squeeze, an alpha ISO should be less troublesome: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/ -- 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/20120909100116.GS24280@desktop
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen kjetil1...@gmail.com writes: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? You need to provide more information, like which installer exactly you are using and if you have tried the non-graphical installation and what error messages you get. -- Debian testing amd64 -- 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/87y5kjs7l4@yun.yagibdah.de
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? Yes, try with the text expert installer, disable KMS and jump to a debug console just in the event there's something logged there. I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. (...) Precision does matter. What was the exact error you got? 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/k2ia64$rra$8...@ger.gmane.org
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
At least on debian installers it should always be possible after language and keyboard selections have been done to drop to the main menu so that an installer can first arrange for debug logs to be saved and then do a disk integrity check before proceeding with the installation. If the disk is no good to start with going any further is just a waste of time. If the integrity is good, and an installer runs into problems after that, they'll be recorded in those debug logs. If the debug logs were saved to a floppy, it ought to be possible to replay them later and in that event, those are something debian-installer wants you to upload into web space and send them the url to the debug logs. That way they can do something about errors in programs on the install media. On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? Contact a Ubuntu mailing list/forum? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? This is about as vague as it gets. Some problem in some program on an unspecified image. Tiredness really has set in. :) If for some reason you insist on installing Wheezy rather than Squeeze, an alpha ISO should be less troublesome: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_alpha1/ --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- 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/alpine.bsf.2.01.1209091326100.38...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
On Sunday 09 September 2012 6:47:32 am Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? Yes, try with the text expert installer, disable KMS and jump to a debug console just in the event there's something logged there. afaikt this laptop has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M card which needs the lastest NVIDIA 295.59 Linux update, from Nvidia. Not sure which Debian version, if any, has updated non-free to include this. Text mode expert install may help. snip -- Peace, Greg -- 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/201209091117.36594.gomadtr...@gci.net
Re: problems installing linux on new laptop
On 09/09/2012 02:58 AM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) When starting the install, the screen gets black, there 9is a lot of noise from the op0tical drive, and then the process dies! Any ideas? I tried aldo an live cd for debian testing, (3 september variant), but that stopped with a different problem, one of the installer programs returned with an error, so there is an error in a program on the cd. Linux mint debian edition, after some time the installer program freezes, (happened repeatedly, at various points in the process. Got tired) Any ideas? Kjetil I think I remember someone else having trouble with an HP, and it turned out that HP has filled up all 4 primary partitions with stuff for recovery, etc., so there is no place to put another OS. You'll have to repartition the drive, such that you have a partition into which you can put secondary partitions for /root and /home, at the least. Or you could scrub Windows altogether, and clean the drive out, but that's a bit drastic, unless you know you'll never need Windows for anything. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- 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/504cfe71.6050...@optonline.net
Re: Problems installing Linux.
I had the EXACT same problem. Maybe a bug should be written up? Oleg Krivosheev helped me out wonderfully. The solution for me was getting a config file from Oleg Krivosheev who had the same graphics card as I had and get the latest SVGA server. By the way, I have a 6330 Hewlett Packard Pavilion which has a SiS 5598, 2 Meg of video memory available (up to 4, but the BIOS is set for 2). -- The following are the directions he gave me: Hi again That'd be great. If you there is any way you could share what choices I should of made in xf86config or whatever, that would be good too. That way, I can understand better. I appreciate your help, Michael there is no way to get something out of xf86config, 'cause all we have now is XF3.3.2 based. ( I have no idea what he meant by that, but it did not matter. His help was great!) ok, my configuration, as promised: 1. i have hamm (i.e. Debian 2.0) installed 2. installed SVGA X server 3. Go to ftp.xfree86.org or it's mirrors (ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/, for example) and get precompiled SVGA server from XF3.3.3 4. gunzip, untar and copy it to /usr/X11R6/bin 5. set the right permissions and edit /etc/X11/Xserver to point to server you just copied 6. copy enclosed file to /etc/X11/XF86Config and set your monitor and mouse parameters i have 2button ps/2 mouse and quite lousy 15 monitor, so if you have better monitor, just set proper VF and HF ranges and your server should start - I've enclosed a copy of the same file. It should be renamed as step 6 says to. Please let us all know if you succeed with this. By the way, I use dpkg -i filenamegoeshere instead of dselect. (Be sure to mount /dev/hdc /cdrom or whatever you have to do to mount your debian distribution.)It gives me a better feeling of control. All I have to do then is go to /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/pretend I really know this by heart/stuck on Windows 98 until I buy a real modem/pitty me or whatever. Michael Nuno Donato wrote: I need some help installing Linux. After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start de Dselect program to install the packages. During the installation, I am asked to select my graphics card, I select it, and then I am asked if I want to create the X configuration file. I answer 'yes' but then an error message appear, saying that I don't have the X config file installed, so I can't install X, so I can't run it. Who can help me? I have Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1995 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other # programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo
Problems installing Linux.
I need some help installing Linux. After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start de Dselect program to install the packages. During the installation, I am asked to select my graphics card, I select it, and then I am asked if I want to create the X configuration file. I answer 'yes' but then an error message appear, saying that I don't have the X config file installed, so I can't install X, so I can't run it. Who can help me? I have Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __ Get your free web-based email at http://www.xoom.com SPECIAL OFFER: 250 Web Site Templates, Only $29.95! - http://orders.xoom.com/email
Re: Problems installing Linux.
Try installing xbase, appropriate xserver for you card, xfonts and other packages needed to run X. Then run the xf86config. Andrew I need some help installing Linux. After I have installed and booted it from a floppy, I start de Dselect program to install the packages. During the installation, I am asked to select my graphics card, I select it, and then I am asked if I want to create the X configuration file. I answer 'yes' but then an error message appear, saying that I don't have the X config file installed, so I can't install X, so I can't run it. Who can help me? I have Debian Linux 2.0 Hamm Nuno Donato ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Problems installing Linux from floppy
Hello, I am trying to install Linux (1.3 kernel 2.0.29) from floppy disks and I always have the installation stall at the same point. I boot the system with the Rescue Floppy, follow all the steps until I get to the 'Operating System Kernel and the Device Drivers' stage. When I am asked to insert the Rescue Floppy into the drive (it is already there and has already been read from), I get the message: Can't open ./install.sh. I have downloaded the floppy disk image three times from three different sites and written to three diferrent floppies! Can anyone help me find where the problem is? Fabio Dias E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems installing Linux from floppy
Mount the floppy manually with mount -r -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt. Cd to /mnt and see if you can find install.sh, if not, you arre writing the floppy wrong, see the instructions. If it is there, try running this: cd /mnt;sh ./install.sh / . I think the trailing slash is important. That should install the kernel. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
