Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sylvain Sauvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow, dimanche 21 janvier 2007, 22:21:07 CET smugzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I choose No when asked if I really want to remove the running kernel, then get two more error messages: dpkg: error procecssing

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-22 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:58:02AM -0600, smugzilla wrote: I'm trying a fresh install of debian on my old Athlon 64 3200 box and this one is not proceeding as smoothly as the previous one. The initial install is smooth enough (I'm not even trying to install gnome yet) but I'm having

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-22 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:51:20PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding

Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread smugzilla
I'm trying a fresh install of debian on my old Athlon 64 3200 box and this one is not proceeding as smoothly as the previous one. The initial install is smooth enough (I'm not even trying to install gnome yet) but I'm having problems as soon as I try to upgrade to sid. Basically the chain of

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi You may be able to do some tricks for saving your system but I don't know if you save time on it. If it boots and dpkg works, then you can download initrdtools by hand and do dpkg -i initrd*.deb. What I can recommend is that you use dselect to select the packages you really want to

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
smugzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying a fresh install of debian on my old Athlon 64 3200 box and this one is not proceeding as smoothly as the previous one. The initial install is smooth enough (I'm not even trying to install gnome yet) but I'm having problems as soon as I try to

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Sylvain Sauvage
Goswin von Brederlow, dimanche 21 janvier 2007, 22:21:07 CET smugzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I choose No when asked if I really want to remove the running kernel, then get two more error messages: dpkg: error procecssing kernel-image-2.6.8.12... [...] The only problem is that

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread smugzilla
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: smugzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying a fresh install of debian on my old Athlon 64 3200 box and this one is not proceeding as smoothly as the previous one. The initial install is smooth enough (I'm not even trying to install gnome yet) but I'm having

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is available from Arizona's sid

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread smugzilla
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is available

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 21 2007 17:49, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is available from Arizona's sid repository. They do have

Re: Fresh Install Problems

2007-01-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:49:21PM -0600, smugzilla wrote: That brings me to my next question: why are the kernel naming conventions inconsistent? uname -r says I am currently running 2.6.8-em64t-p4-smp but no corresponding version of kernel 2.6.18 is available from Arizona's sid