Re: Jessie failed installation woes - they continue!

2015-06-15 Thread Bruce Ward
Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR of that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the message about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive in Wheezy, I find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to be in, is not there. There

Re: Jessie failed installation woes

2015-06-13 Thread Robert S
Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR of that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the message about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive in Wheezy, I find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to be in, is not there. There

Jessie failed installation woes

2015-06-13 Thread Bruce Ward
I'm a long-time Debian user and this system (Wheezy) is result of at least 3 dist-upgrades (as well as motherboard upgrades). Last dist-upgrade was not completely successful, so I thought to do a new install of Jessie, onto a second hard drive. Since the current motherboard is AMD FX 64bit

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:09:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the installation, after the reboot into the new system, it goes into package-selection mode. It is during this time that it gave me the choice of choosing categories of packages or individual package selection. When

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:29:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] package *

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:38:43PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:29:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-26 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * E: Unable to correct problems, you have held back broken packages. * E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed * E: Unable to

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:29:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] package * report-bug: Depends: pythin 2.3 which is a cirtual package

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:29:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:23PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] package *

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * E: Unable to correct problems, you have held back broken packages. * E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed * E: Unable to resolve some dependencies * * Some packages had unmet dependencies.

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-02-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:15:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:13:01AM +, Peter Colton wrote: On Monday 13 February 2006 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:24:44AM +, Peter Colton wrote: On Saturday 11 February 2006 14:09,

Re: Installation woes: How can I network boot a dell gx280, including tg3? May require kernel 2.6.12.

2005-08-29 Thread Grant Thomas
On 8/29/05, Turloch O'Tierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant, Thanks for the pointer, I have not got it right though. If I get the tg3 network card working I will write a detailed description to the mailing list. Thank you for your time, Turloch Slightly confused messages follow:

Installation woes: How can I network boot a dell gx280, including tg3? May require kernel 2.6.12.

2005-08-26 Thread Turloch O'Tierney
Dell Gx280 installation Tigon3 ethernet card is not supported on the debian testing network install download(kernel 2.6.8). (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/) Error: [tg3:eth%d:Firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0 not loaded; continuing without TS0] The sarge network install failed due to

Re: Installation woes: How can I network boot a dell gx280, including tg3? May require kernel 2.6.12.

2005-08-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/08/05 15:46), Turloch O'Tierney wrote: Dell Gx280 installation Tigon3 ethernet card is not supported on the debian testing network install download(kernel 2.6.8). (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/) Error: [tg3:eth%d:Firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0 not loaded; continuing

Re: Installation woes: How can I network boot a dell gx280, including tg3? May require kernel 2.6.12.

2005-08-26 Thread Grant Thomas
Dell Gx280 installation Tigon3 ethernet card is not supported on the debian testing network install download(kernel 2.6.8). (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/) Error: [tg3:eth%d:Firmware tg3/tso-1.4.0 not loaded; continuing without TS0] The sarge network install

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2005-01-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:20, Joe wrote: Is it a defect that requires the noapic option? I think so. I don't believe a mere absence of a feature should stop a kernel booting, particularly a Knoppix one. I think it must be a hardware bug. In fact a quick Google on 'k7s8x noapic bios'

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2005-01-07 Thread Joe
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:20, Joe wrote: Is it a defect that requires the noapic option? I think so. I don't believe a mere absence of a feature should stop a kernel booting, particularly a Knoppix one. I think it must be a

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2005-01-06 Thread Joe
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:40, Joe wrote: The motherboard is an ASRock K7S8X. (I don't know what chips are on it.) I didn't see the beginning of this. I have one of these and I've yet to see any Linux boot without noapic.

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2005-01-05 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:40, Joe wrote: The motherboard is an ASRock K7S8X. (I don't know what chips are on it.) I didn't see the beginning of this. I have one of these and I've yet to see any Linux boot without noapic. Including Knoppix, and Woody on 2.4.18, and the current Sarge 2.6

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2005-01-04 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 00:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Thanks. I added that to the append=... in /etc/lilo.conf and it fixed the problem. Just out of curiosity, why did this become necessary (for my hardware at least) between the 2.4.23 and 2.4.26 kernels? What motherboard chipset do

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2005-01-04 Thread Joe
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wednesday 29 December 2004 00:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Thanks. I added that to the append=... in /etc/lilo.conf and it fixed the problem. Just out of curiosity, why did this become necessary (for my hardware at least) between

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Funk
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Adam Funk wrote: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386

Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-05-14 Thread Adam Funk
I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7 and they all get stuck on hda: lost interrupt while trying to boot. I thought

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-05-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Adam Funk wrote: I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7 and they all get stuck on hda: lost interrupt while trying to

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-05-14 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 14 May 2004 17:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: What motherboard do you have? ASRock K7S8X Are you loading the module for your IDE chipset? Here's some info about the kernel that works. AFAIK all the kernels I've tried would use the same modules.conf file, so I can't see why changing

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-05-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 14 May 2004 10:41 am, Adam Funk wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 17:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: What motherboard do you have? ASRock K7S8X Are you loading the module for your IDE chipset? Here's some info about the kernel that works. AFAIK all the kernels I've tried would use

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-05-14 Thread Herbert Xu
Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7 and they all get stuck on hda: lost

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-25 Thread Danny O'Brien
Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies (my original post is below, under the line). It appears that PHP is not connecting to our postgre database, as indicated by the following error that appears on the main PHP web page: Parse error: parse error in /var/www/srp/dbconnect.php on line

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-25 Thread charlie derr
My recommendation (I didn't see this in your extensive littany of steps taken) is to add the following line to /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf and then restart postgresql) tcpip_sociket = 1 good luck, ~c Danny O'Brien wrote: Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies (my

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-25 Thread jdc
Quoting Danny O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... This led me to examine dbconnect.php -- the following line is present: $link = pg_connect (, , , , ourdb or die ( Could not connect to database. ); Danny, First of all, that code snippet can't be right, you're missing

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-25 Thread Danny O'Brien
OK -- many thanks, much better -- the parse error is gone, so it appears that the PHP page is connecting to the database! Alll right! (Please forgive the missing ')' in the string below, I'm not a PHP programmer, but I'm learning in a hurry. And under the old config, these files worked

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Hewitt
Danny O'Brien wrote: Parse error: parse error in /var/www/srp/dbconnect.php on line 5 With this error... $link = pg_connect (, , , , ourdb or die ( Could not connect to database. ); You are missing a closing bracket for pg_connect. With the bracket: $link = pg_connect

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-25 Thread jdc
Quoting Danny O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK -- many thanks, much better ... However, the page is still refusing logins and passwords that were scripted into the DB (from the fake_data file), including the postgres db main user (not postgres, in our case). So, my next stop is to figure

Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Danny O'Brien
Any postgre experts out there? We have a PHP4 site that worked fine under a previous RedHat build, but we just can't get it working on this Debian build. Here's what we're running: Debian 3.0r1 woody Kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 Apache 1.3.26-0woo postgres 7.2.1-2wood php 4.1.2-6wood We've applied a

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 17:27, Danny O'Brien wrote: Any postgre experts out there? We have a PHP4 site that worked fineunder a previous RedHat build, but we just can't get it working onthis Debian build. ... But when we go to login to our PHP site, our login is rejected and we get the

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Danny O'Brien penned: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in path/auth.php on line 10 Line 10 in auth.php looks like this: $result = pg_exec( $link, $sql ); Well, first of all, from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-query.php : Note:

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Joost De Cock
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:50, Danny O'Brien shoved this is my mailbox: ... We have a PHP4 site that worked fine under a previous RedHat build, but we just can't get it working on this Debian build. ... But when we go to login to our PHP site, our login is rejected and we get the

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-16 Thread mullena
Greetings; I have successfully installed the 8003ep nic. Many thanks to Michael Heldebrant for his moral support, the sharing of which files I may want to look at to determine conflicts, and for his suggestion that sacrificing a brown rooster (rather than the white one I was tying to the alter

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 14 Aug 2001 16:19:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; I have a 8003EP nic in a 32MB/3GB 486/50. I have the base system installed via floppy (no cd). I *could* install more of Debian via ppp. But since I have access to a T1+ line I'd much prefer to install via the network.

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-15 Thread mullena
Mike - Thank you for the response. Here we go. I have a hard drive, 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 floppies, 8003ep nic. It's basically a vanilla Dell 486P/50. ;-) You don't happen to have a soundcard with a midi port around there do you? What does /proc/ioports /proc/interrupts look like on your system?

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 12:03:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike - Thank you for the response. Here we go. I have a hard drive, 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 floppies, 8003ep nic. It's basically a vanilla Dell 486P/50. ;-) You don't happen to have a soundcard with a midi port around there do you?

8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-14 Thread mullena
Greetings; I have a 8003EP nic in a 32MB/3GB 486/50. I have the base system installed via floppy (no cd). I *could* install more of Debian via ppp. But since I have access to a T1+ line I'd much prefer to install via the network. But I can't get the dang-blamed card configured. I went to

Re: 8003EP nic installation woes...

2001-08-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: 8003EP nic installation woes... Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:19:19PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Greetings; I have a 8003EP nic in a 32MB/3GB 486/50. I have the base system installed via floppy (no cd). I

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: debian installation woes Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800 In reply to:aphro Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]): you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so well on hdb10. A 1 gig

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-04 Thread John Foster
Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Re: debian installation woes Date: Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:59:08AM -0800 In reply to:aphro Quoting aphro([EMAIL PROTECTED]): you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate OH?? Gee, I wonder why my potato dist is working so

debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Once I did that (it took about 15 minutes to read the kernel from the floppy), it went to the main installer thing. I selected

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote: I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Hi, I think that we need to know at least something about your hardware

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
Whoops! I knew I forgot something =) I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec 2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8:

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] Other hardware: - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't find the module to install this card in the installer) This uses the pci-ne2k module. - SB16 - Riva TNT2 AGP I've gotten it to install and reboot off

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On 2/11/99 Mock Ko wrote: 1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) ^ 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now (I was

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
1: w95 (1 gig) 2: extended (the rest of it) 5: linux (1gig) 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs) 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it) 8: linux swap (150 megs) There MAY be a problem with the boot sector crossing a 1024 cyl bound, not sure if scsi has this problem. Just to be

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Re: debian installation woes 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but you can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels. From the Changes file in the kernel source documentation Util-linux

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I thought that might be the case. However anyone installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0 kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people would need that much swap anyway. --- Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about Re: debian installation

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread aphro
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Nick Phillips
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary.. IIRC, LILO should be able to boot from any partition, although it gets a bit more complicated if the interesting bits aren't near enough to the front of the disk... I couldn't tell from the bits of previous posts I could see exactly how

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
--- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm probably just going to re-download the whole thing and try again. Ewww - I would try to find a copy of Debian 2.1 (or 2.0) at a local 'Borders' bookstore - much more convenient. Believe me, I would if I could. Unfortunately I live in Japan

Installation woes

1998-12-03 Thread Tom Anzalone
I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and did receive some messages back but was unable to read them. So I will try this again. (Thanks to everyone that did reply) I have tried to install Debian numerous times on my machine: P133, 128meg, 8.4 ide, 2.5 ide (install

Re: Installation woes

1998-12-03 Thread Kent West
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tom Anzalone wrote: I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and did receive some messages back but was unable to read them. So I will try this again. (Thanks to everyone that did reply) I have tried to install Debian numerous times on my machine:

Re: Installation woes

1998-12-03 Thread Tom Anzalone
PROTECTED] To: Tom Anzalone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Installation woes On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tom Anzalone wrote: I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and did receive

Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Kieran
My 486 is hanging when it gets to the screen selection screen. I can't move with cursors, can't enter, can't escape, can't reboot...any ideas? I'm installing off a Hard Drive. Cheers! K -- K I E R A N G A R B U T T Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cellphone - 025 289 34 97 Homepage -

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 02:33:48PM +1300, Kieran wrote: My 486 is hanging when it gets to the screen selection screen. I can't move with cursors, can't enter, can't escape, can't reboot...any ideas? I'm installing off a Hard Drive. Cheers! Is scroll lock on, by any chance? Hamish --

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Kieran
nope...It's only got a 5.25 drive and I was having problems even getting past the insert root.bin thing...I paralleled all data to the HD and then ran install...it keeps saying: unknown interrupt then it loads the selection screen and hangs like a wild stallion... Hamish Moffatt wrote: On

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 03:30:22PM +1300, Kieran wrote: nope...It's only got a 5.25 drive and I was having problems even getting past the insert root.bin thing...I paralleled all data to the HD and then ran install...it keeps saying: unknown interrupt then it loads the selection screen

Re: Installation woes

1998-11-26 Thread Kieran
Connor 60MB HDD Oak Technologies Video Card (OTI037C) 486-SX 25 8MB 5.25 Drive Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 03:30:22PM +1300, Kieran wrote: nope...It's only got a 5.25 drive and I was having problems even getting past the insert root.bin thing...I paralleled all data to

Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS autodetects it, but locks up on boot. If I disable hard drive in CMOS, boots ok,

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Daniel Stringfield, you wrote: I bought a 2.5 gig (Western Digital) IDE hard drive. It seems to be making weirdness happen on the machine its on. (a pentium 133, 430vx motherboard, 16mb ram). Whats happening on THIS machine is that the BIOS autodetects it, but locks

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... Tim Pointed Lynx to www.wdc.com before I hit the reply button! thanks! --

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... d/led the firmware upgrade, the upgrade said I was up to date. I then through it in my 486dx4/100 box

Re: Debian 1.2 - my installation woes.

1996-12-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: You may have one of the WD drives that need to be flashed with new BIOS. You can get the info and programs off their web site (if I remember right)... d/led the firmware upgrade, the upgrade said I was up to date.

Installation woes

1996-06-13 Thread Chris Nielsen
ok... I think I got Debian installed, at least part way I have a few problems though... 1st is when my computer turns on, it says FA: I figured out what this is (choses your method of booting, right?) I press A and it says 1234F Pressing 1 gets me Windows 95, F will boot from a floppy,

Re: Installation woes

1996-06-13 Thread eckes
Hi, ok... I think I got Debian installed, at least part way I have a few problems though... 1st is when my computer turns on, it says FA: I figured out what this is (choses your method of booting, right?) I press A and it says 1234F Pressing 1 gets me Windows 95, F will boot