Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Frank Murphy
> The kernel parameter for initrd is just > initrd=/boot/newinstall/root-2.4.bin > but this is just doing what you have done with the grub command so > I would expect anything different. Is your initrd image valid? > Can you loopback mount it? I think it's valid because I was able to dd a moot

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:56:14PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with > > > problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 > > > is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-17 Thread Frank Murphy
> > What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with > > problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 > > is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.) > > > > Here's my Grub config: > > > > title Woody install > > ke

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have > booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried > following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying > th

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 13:08 schrieb Francisco Fialho: > I used the dmesg | grep hd command and found my cdrom at /dev/hdd > made the change at /etc/fstab and it worked! > > I`m still fighting with my X config! :-) Try 'apt-cdrom add' and insert your debian cdroms. see the output of 'man apt

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 12:02 schrieb Francisco Fialho: > This could help: > > [...] > Fatal Server error: > Cannot Open Mouse ( No such file or directory) > > X connection to :0.0 broken ( explicit kill or shutdown). Without mouse the xserver can not start. What kind of mouse do you use? At w

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 17:17 schrieb Colin Watson: > That looks to me as if you're trying to mix packages from potato > and woody somehow ... If so, it might be helpful to mail the output of the following commands : cat /etc/apt/preferences cat /etc/apt/sources.list ciao gerhard sorry abo

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:17:01AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > when I give an apt-get install x-window-system > it returns: couldn`t find package x-window-system. > > how can I correct the mix packages search? I bet I know what's wrong. The testing installation disks have 'stable' in the def

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
12, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:04:45AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > > Sorry for the big mail... this is what I get when apt-get install -s > > task-x-window-system... > > In woody, use 'x-window-system', not

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:04:45AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > Sorry for the big mail... this is what I get when apt-get install -s > task-x-window-system... In woody, use 'x-window-system', not 'task-x-window-system'. > McLaren:/# apt-get install xlib6g-dev xlib6g-dev is present in woody,

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
ROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:54 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody > Hi all, > > Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 16:28 schrieb Stephan Hachinger: > > [...] > > Do you know which controller your drive is connected to? > > > > If it is... >

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
Building Dependecy Tree... Done Sorry, libc6 is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, and so on... - Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian - US" Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Problems installin

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Gaussling
Hi all, Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 16:28 schrieb Stephan Hachinger: > [...] > Do you know which controller your drive is connected to? > > If it is... > > ... at the primary controller, slave position: try "mount > /dev/hdb /cdrom" > > [...] also you can try dmesg | grep hd to figure out on what

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Peter Whysall
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Francisco Fialho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Peter, > > the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command gave me the following output: > Package xserver-xfree86 is not installed and no info is available. > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xsrever-xfree86 is not fully installed. > the

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:46:30AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > I did an apt-get install -s task-x-window-system > and had a message of package dependency... > so I went doing an apt-get install package ( xlib6g-dev) > that required (libc6-dev) that required (libc6), and > when a tried to upda

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:57:13 -0300 "Francisco Fialho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > I couldn`t mount the /cdrom > even changing my /etc/fstab > to /dev/hdc... got the same > message: /dev/hdc is not a block device. > > regards > Hi! Do you know which controller your drive is conne

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Stephan Hachinger
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:01:31 -0300 "Francisco Fialho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500> processor, > 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)...> > when I finished my first installation I could pi

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
package xserver-xfree86... where can I get this package? regards Francisco - Original Message - From: "Peter Whysall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Ian Smit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian - US" Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:46 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody > I did an apt-get install -s task-x-window-system > and had a message of package dependency... > so I

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Peter Whysall
on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Robert Ian Smit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:01:31AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > > > I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 > > processor, > > 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
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Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:01:31AM -0300, Francisco Fialho wrote: > I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with Celeron 500 > processor, > 128 mem, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)... > > when I finished my first installation I could ping the local a

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
Michael, I couldn`t mount the /cdrom even changing my /etc/fstab to /dev/hdc... got the same message: /dev/hdc is not a block device. regards - Original Message - From: "Michael Biddulph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Pro

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:01, Francisco Fialho wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I`m just beggining using Linux, and decided to start with > Debian. Heard a lot about how good it was and everything :-). > > I`m trying to install woody ( Debian 3.0) at an ACER 4300 with > Celeron 500 processor, > 128 mem, an