Re: mariadb installation question

2021-02-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 3:09 PM Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am getting the following error after installing mariadb. Any ideas why > this would be the case > It asks for a root password. I previously installed and uninstalled mysql > and mariadb twice because of errors. > >

mariadb installation question

2021-02-27 Thread Semih Ozlem
Hi everyone I am getting the following error after installing mariadb. Any ideas why this would be the case It asks for a root password. I previously installed and uninstalled mysql and mariadb twice because of errors. user@debian:/media/user/Windows/usercreatedfolders/debianrepos/mysql$ sudo

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:19:56 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote: > Sorry, stopping and restarting the service seems to have solved the > problem. Does it work after a cold system restart without restarting it manually? If not, my guess is some clamav or clamav-daemon dependency is not getting loaded. I'm

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Semih Ozlem
Sorry, stopping and restarting the service seems to have solved the problem. Semih Ozlem , 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 10:18 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > user@debian:~$ sudo systemctl status clamav-daemon.service > ● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon >Loaded: loaded

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Semih Ozlem
user@debian:~$ sudo systemctl status clamav-daemon.service ● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d └─extend.conf

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:58:06 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote: > I am able to install clamav and clamav-daemon. It appears in dpkg -l > results. The problem is it is not functioning properly. So I am > wondering if anyone else had similar issues or not. Can you be a bit more explicit? What did you get,

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread john doe
On 2/26/2021 6:58 AM, Semih Ozlem wrote: I am able to install clamav and clamav-daemon. It appears in dpkg -l results. The problem is it is not functioning properly. > What do you mean by "not working properly"? -- John Doe

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Semih Ozlem
I am able to install clamav and clamav-daemon. It appears in dpkg -l results. The problem is it is not functioning properly. So I am wondering if anyone else had similar issues or not. Patrick Bartek , 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 00:34 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:17:52 +0300 > Semih

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:17:52 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hi everyone > > When I try to install clamav I am getting errots > When I try to follow installation instructions from debian's site > instruction > > (i) clamav-data package is not available in the repository > (ii) freshclam gives the

Re: clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Semih Ozlem wrote: > When I try to install clamav I am getting errots > When I try to follow installation instructions from debian's site > instruction > > (i) clamav-data package is not available in the repository > (ii) freshclam gives the error > "!checkdbdir: Can't ope directory

clamav installation question

2021-02-25 Thread Semih Ozlem
Hi everyone When I try to install clamav I am getting errots When I try to follow installation instructions from debian's site instruction (i) clamav-data package is not available in the repository (ii) freshclam gives the error "!checkdbdir: Can't ope directory /var/lib/clamav/" (iii) I can't

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Imre Tóth
Hello, I also can recommend for you that, better if you reinstall your system from zero. The installer is very easy. If you'll confuse in the questions, it can be a good idea if you posting the question and the people will support you from here. Ciao, Imre On 2020. 03. 22. 18:58, "Brian"

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:27 AM Jakub Kuzmicki wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian 10 on my Dell XPS 15 7590. I was able to get >> through majority of the installation up until the network mirroring >> portion. I skipped that part since I wasn't able to find a recognizable >> mirror

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Daniel Harris
If you have installed debian then you can setup a mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list. But that assumes you are at a debian terminal and not some grub terminal. if you can ping out look in /etc/apt/sources and edit that file # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.0.0 _Buster_ - Official amd64 NETINST

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Mar 2020 at 11:08:53 -0500, Jakub Kuzmicki wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian 10 on my Dell XPS 15 7590. I was able to get > > through majority of the installation up until the network mirroring > > portion. I skipped that part since I wasn't able to find a recognizable >

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Joe
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:08:53 -0500 Jakub Kuzmicki wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian 10 on my Dell XPS 15 7590. I was able to > get > > through majority of the installation up until the network mirroring > > portion. I skipped that part since I wasn't able to find a > >

Re: Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 11:08:53AM -0500, Jakub Kuzmicki wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian 10 on my Dell XPS 15 7590. I was able to get > > through majority of the installation up until the network mirroring > > portion. I skipped that part since I wasn't able to find a recognizable

Debian 10 Installation Question

2020-03-22 Thread Jakub Kuzmicki
Hello, I recently installed Debian 10 on my Dell XPS 15 7590. I was able to get > through majority of the installation up until the network mirroring > portion. I skipped that part since I wasn't able to find a recognizable > mirror to use. So now, when I turn on my computer and boot Debian, I am

Re: New Motherboard installation question

2017-11-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 04:57:28PM +, J.W. Foster wrote: >Any tips are welcome, and no I have not researched this online. I would say that if you want specific suggestions, posting the actual error messages is a good start. >I'm just seeking info from folks that have done this

Re: New Motherboard installation question

2017-11-16 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.11.2017 21:57, J.W. Foster wrote: > I installed a new motherboard on a system that I run as as a server. > Same system has 3 1tb disks with Debian stable installed, and 1 with > Windows 10 installed, all booting at my discretion from grub. I was > able to get all of the drives to operate,

Re: RAID 1 System Installation Question

2015-09-20 Thread Tim McDonough
Thank you! I will try this procedure this week. Tim On 9/18/2015 5:04 PM, linuxthefish wrote: Tim, >From what I remember it's best to set it up when you installing the system, then you can install the bootloader to /boot in RAID 1.

RAID 1 System Installation Question

2015-09-18 Thread Tim McDonough
I've used Debian Linux for a number of years but up until now always with a single hard drive. I want to build a new system that will have a pair of 1TB drives configured as a RAID-1 mirror. In reading the mdadm Wiki the discussion begins with installing mdadm. My goal is to have a system

Re: RAID 1 System Installation Question

2015-09-18 Thread linuxthefish
Tim, >From what I remember it's best to set it up when you installing the system, then you can install the bootloader to /boot in RAID 1. https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2013/10/04/how-to-configure-software-raid1-during-installation-process/ is what I followed. Thanks, Edmund On 18 September

debian installation question

2013-08-08 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my previous /home partition ie. forbid the installer to reformat this partition. I am sure that it is possible, but at the end of the partitionning step, how cna I check

Re: debian installation question

2013-08-08 Thread cletusjenkins
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:15:44 -0700 François Pattefrancois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my previous /home partition ie. forbid the

Re: debian installation question

2013-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Bonsoir, On 08/08/13 20:15, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I would like to make a fresh install of debian and I want to keep my previous /home partition ie. forbid the installer to reformat this partition. I am sure that it is possible, Indeed, it is possible Nevertheless, for safety,

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: Then, you have to start reading the whole thing (aka, the whole thread) before making such statements on what you find qualified or not because something can look unqualified only to

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: Then, you have to start reading the whole thing (aka, the whole thread) before making such statements on what you find qualified or not

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:34:23 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: Then, you have to start reading the whole thing (aka, the whole thread)

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 12:10:05 Camaleón wrote: Sorry, Lisi but on a mailing list there are some rules you should try to follow, and I don't want to sound rude but you insisted too much in remarking something I was not talking about, dunno why. Camaleón - this is absurd. You do sound

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:06:06 +0100, Lisi wrote: Gee... still with this? :-) On Monday 26 September 2011 19:07:17 Camaleón wrote: Yes, you should have read the full thread I'm not the only one who has been known to transgress in that manner. And I'm sure that I won't be the last. Don't

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-27 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: Then, you have to start reading the whole thing (aka, the whole thread) before making such statements on what you find qualified or not because something can look unqualified only to unqualified eyes, so please, I understand that sometimes

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:48:16 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 09/25/11 06:36, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) That shows how long it's been since I installed

Re: New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: I'm feeling really dumb right now.  Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager.  

Re: New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-26 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, francis picabia fpica...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: I'm feeling really dumb right now.  Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:29:10 Camaleón wrote: It seems to me that you replied to more than that statement as we were not talking about external hard disks at all. I _was_ replying solely to the statement. I did not read thro' the thread and make sure of the context, and you can and do

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:47:45 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:29:10 Camaleón wrote: It seems to me that you replied to more than that statement as we were not talking about external hard disks at all. I _was_ replying solely to the statement. And you expanded with

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 26 September 2011 19:07:17 Camaleón wrote: Yes, you should have read the full thread I'm not the only one who has been known to transgress in that manner. And I'm sure that I won't be the last. Don't you think that this all getting a bit OTT for what was, after all, not that

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: (...) Do I need to make changes in the BIOS to recognize SATA drives? Obviously, I needed to answer my own question. Yes! I did need to activate SATA in the BIOS. (...) It's not very

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) Unless it's external. Then it will be clogged up with Windows stuff that it will relinquish only very, very reluctantly. I still haven't got my

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) Unless it's external. Barracuda disks are not usually external. Seagate uses fancy names for

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Curt
On 2011-09-25, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) Unless it's external. Barracuda disks are

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +, Curt wrote: On 2011-09-25, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 16:49:35 Camaleón wrote: I never buy those pre-boxed disks... I prefer to get an external USB/ Firewire case and put an internal disk on it, they're far better and easily to upgrade than the others ;-) After this battle, I think that I shall remember that! Thanks,

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 25 September 2011 17:25:16 Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +, Curt wrote: On 2011-09-25, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote: No new modern hard disk will come

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:30:24 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 17:25:16 Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +, Curt wrote: On 2011-09-25, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 06:36, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) That shows how long it's been since I installed a new drive. The last time that I did so, it was the

New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have installed a SATA drive. How do I

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have

Re: New debian-installation - question

2011-03-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 03/26/2011 05:04 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi list, just some simple questions: I am going to create a small installations cd from an already installed system (with my own settings). As I want it small and secure, I do not want any logfiles on this cd. I am using bootcdwrite. So my

New debian-installation - question

2011-03-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi list, just some simple questions: I am going to create a small installations cd from an already installed system (with my own settings). As I want it small and secure, I do not want any logfiles on this cd. I am using bootcdwrite. So my questions: 1.Can I use an empty /var/log/ or is it

basic installation question x 2

2010-07-11 Thread Jim Pazarena
I'm new to Debian, and would like to give it serious consideration. I'm from a FreeBSD camp, so the differences are enough to challenge me. Two questions. (a) is it possible to avoid/cancel the initial request for a user name (other than root)? My goal is to have an install routine which

Re: basic installation question x 2

2010-07-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jim Pazarena: (a) is it possible to avoid/cancel the initial request for a user name (other than root)? My goal is to have an install routine which _after_ the base install creates all the users I need, possibly in non-default locations. Debian-installer has the concept

Re: basic installation question x 2

2010-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 01:32:26PM -0700, Jim Pazarena wrote: I'm new to Debian, and would like to give it serious consideration. I'm from a FreeBSD camp, so the differences are enough to challenge me. Two questions. (a) is it possible to avoid/cancel the initial request for a user name

Re: basic installation question x 2

2010-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Pazarena wrote: (a) is it possible to avoid/cancel the initial request for a user name (other than root)? Sure. Just don't create one. The debian-installer asks if you would like to create a user but you can skip that step. It is optional. And then as the others said it is possible

Re: Udev Installation Question

2008-02-03 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 03 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens to the original contents of /dev? 1. Still there--the tmpfs simply mounts over them (kind of wasteful since a statis /dev had zillions of unused nodes). 2. Deleted. Want to go back ... well there is a make-devfs script

Udev Installation Question

2008-02-02 Thread David Baron
What happens to the original contents of /dev? 1. Still there--the tmpfs simply mounts over them (kind of wasteful since a statis /dev had zillions of unused nodes). 2. Deleted. Want to go back ... well there is a make-devfs script somewhere to create all the zillions of nodes that Knoppix

Re: Udev Installation Question

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 02 February 2008 14:00, David Baron wrote: What happens to the original contents of /dev? 1. Still there--the tmpfs simply mounts over them (kind of wasteful since a statis /dev had zillions of unused nodes). 2. Deleted. Want to go back ... well there is a make-devfs script

firewall installation question

2007-11-03 Thread Paul E Condon
I use Etch. I want to install a firewall script. I found one in www.debian-administration.org that establishes a transparent proxy for web browsing. It is a script that seems to do what I want when I run it manually. debadmin article says to put it in /etc/network/if-up.d/ and it will be run

Vá: firewall installation question

2007-11-03 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/11/3, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use Etch. I want to install a firewall script. I found one in www.debian-administration.org that establishes a transparent proxy for web browsing. It is a script that seems to do what I want when I run it manually. debadmin article says to put it

Re: firewall installation question

2007-11-03 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/11/3, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use Etch. I want to install a firewall script. I found one in www.debian-administration.org that establishes a transparent proxy for web browsing. It is a script that seems to do what I want when I run it manually. debadmin article says to put it

Re: firewall installation question

2007-11-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:32:29PM +0100, Pál Csányi wrote: 2007/11/3, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use Etch. I want to install a firewall script. I found one in www.debian-administration.org that establishes a transparent proxy for web browsing. It is a script that seems to do what I

Re: firewall installation question

2007-11-03 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Nov 03, 2007 at 19:49:40 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: You must chmod +x this script: # chmod +x script_name Thanks, but I was forced to +x the script in order to run it manually. Something else is the problem. Files in that directory are executed by 'run-parts'. That has

Re: firewall installation question

2007-11-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:53:57AM +, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sat Nov 03, 2007 at 19:49:40 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: You must chmod +x this script: # chmod +x script_name Thanks, but I was forced to +x the script in order to run it manually. Something else is the problem.

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Lale
jekillen wrote: [...] Is apt-cdrom add a command line program? I did not see it in administration menu, only Synaptic which when launched presented dialogs about Debian site files being no existent. [...] You can add CDROMs from within Synaptic - no need for the command line: Edit -

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Lale
jekillen wrote: [...] I want to install KDE and noticed that among the 24 cds there is one labeled KDE install 1. Does that mean that that cd would install the system with KDE and not Gnome? I think that this is a bootable installation disc. If you install from it, your system will have KDE

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:41:06PM -0700, jekillen wrote: Is apt-cdrom add a command line program? I did not see it in administration menu, only Synaptic which when launched presented dialogs about Debian site files being no existent. I am not sitting at the machine at this moment so I

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:35:50PM -0700, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Greetings: I am impatient and am having a problem with my installation of etch. I purchased a commercially available Debian cd package and installed the system without a problem. But I am tying to use the

Re: Installation question

2007-10-10 Thread jekillen
On Oct 10, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 09:41:06PM -0700, jekillen wrote: Is apt-cdrom add a command line program? I did not see it in administration menu, only Synaptic which when launched presented dialogs about Debian site files being no existent. I am

Installation question

2007-10-09 Thread jekillen
Greetings: I am impatient and am having a problem with my installation of etch. I purchased a commercially available Debian cd package and installed the system without a problem. But I am tying to use the Synaptic package manager and am having a problem with it connecting to the Debian site via a

Re: Installation question

2007-10-09 Thread David Fox
On 10/9/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I am impatient and am having a problem with my installation of etch. I purchased a commercially available Debian cd package and installed the system without a problem. But I am tying to Well, if you have the CD's readily available, have

Re: Installation question

2007-10-09 Thread jekillen
On Oct 9, 2007, at 9:15 PM, David Fox wrote: On 10/9/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I am impatient and am having a problem with my installation of etch. I purchased a commercially available Debian cd package and installed the system without a problem. But I am tying to

Re: Installation question

2007-10-09 Thread David Fox
On 10/9/07, jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is apt-cdrom add a command line program? I did not see it in administration Yes, it's run at the command line - you need to run it as root, so you should either su to root or use sudo and do $ sudo apt-cdrom add It should then prompt you to put

Re: Debian etch RC1 installation question

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:32:02AM +0200, Debeselis wrote: Hi, I just downloaded RC1 yesterday and tried to do clean installation. I noticed that this install tries to install some packages of Selinux by default. My question is - is there any way to disable these packages installations,

Re: Debian etch RC1 installation question

2006-11-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:32:02AM +0200, Debeselis wrote: Hi, I just downloaded RC1 yesterday and tried to do clean installation. I noticed that this install tries to install some packages of Selinux by default. My question is - is there any way to disable these packages installations,

RE: Debian etch RC1 installation question

2006-11-15 Thread Aladdin
So if I'll not touch anything regarding selinux after my install - shall I have disabled selinux? Right? In selinux config file I have the following entries (I didn't touch anything): # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: #

Re: Debian etch RC1 installation question

2006-11-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Aladdin wrote: So if I'll not touch anything regarding selinux after my install - shall I have disabled selinux? Right? In selinux config file I have the following entries (I didn't touch anything): # This file controls the state of SELinux on

Debian etch RC1 installation question

2006-11-14 Thread Debeselis
Hi, I just downloaded RC1 yesterday and tried to do clean installation. I noticed that this install tries to install some packages of Selinux by default. My question is - is there any way to disable these packages installations, will selinux be enabled on my machine after istall is finished and

Debian Installation Question

2005-08-15 Thread Michael Kerwin
As a followup to this problem I discovered in text mode that I was getting a message on the screen when it beeped. It says found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0 ETH0 setting half - duplex based on MII#1 local partner capabiltiy of Anyone know why this is happening? Is my network card to old?

Re: Debian Installation Question

2005-08-15 Thread Emil Khatib
Do you get any message box reporting any problem? If you do, try to send the error, if you do not, change to the fiirst virtual console (Ctrl + Alt + F1). Surely you will read an eror message or warning there. Good luck!

Debian Installation Question

2005-08-12 Thread Michael Kerwin
I am new to Debian and have set up one computer with debian 3.1 and when it boots into the gnome login screen it beeps 3 times in a row but displays the screen correctly. Then after logining in and going into gnome after about 1 minute the screen goes blank and the computer beeps 3 times. If

newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
Hi, I am considering installation of Debian Linux on an older PC - a Compaq 4850. I want to refamiliarize myself with Unix, after being a Windows user since early 1993. I was a user of various versions of Unix for about 12 years prior to then, but I am so rusty and out of date that I am

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian M. Godfrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am considering installation of Debian Linux on an older PC - a Compaq 4850. I want to refamiliarize myself with Unix, after being a Windows user since early 1993. I was a user of various versions of Unix for about 12 years prior to then,

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally, just to get it to boot up, then install

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian M. Godfrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally,

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread messmate
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:03:42 +0100 Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian M. Godfrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but not part of the base system. You can however

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Brian M. Godfrey wrote: This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally But I'd suggest installing

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
You can also install at this reboot the 'rescue' package apt-cache policy rescue ... There you'll find all info about your machine. That sounds handy. I'll do it. Too bad I can't run it before the install so I'd just have to do it once. (Well, one less time, anyway. :-) Thanks,

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Brian M. Godfrey
But I'd suggest installing Sarge instead of Woody. (Let the flamefest begin . . . .) I haven't seen any flames yet, Kent. Maybe it's a good idea. But I can borrow the 3.0r2 disks which, I think, are Woody. I'm sure they'll be fine for now. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: newbie installation question

2005-01-01 Thread Kent West
Brian M. Godfrey wrote: But I'd suggest installing Sarge instead of Woody. (Let the flamefest begin . . . .) I haven't seen any flames yet, Kent. Maybe it's a good idea. But I can borrow the 3.0r2 disks which, I think, are Woody. I'm sure they'll be fine for now. Feel free to correct

debian automatic installation question

2004-08-05 Thread Jin Zhao
Hi, Recently I started converting my servers from Redhat to Debian. I was a long time redhat user. and now find myself facing multiple ways of automatic installation -- fai, replicator, systemimager, autoinstall. Before deeply digging into these different beasts, I hope to hear suggestions from

Re: debian automatic installation question

2004-08-05 Thread John Summerfield
Jin Zhao wrote: Hi, Recently I started converting my servers from Redhat to Debian. I was a long time redhat user. and now find myself facing multiple ways of automatic installation -- fai, replicator, systemimager, autoinstall. Before deeply digging into these different beasts, I hope to hear

Re: postgres installation question

2004-05-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 22:19, Tom Allison wrote: I'm doing a -testing installation of postgresql. I have the user postgres in the passwd file. I don't know what the password is. I'm wondering: Should I know it? I can always su posgres from root, but I don't always want to have to go

postgres installation question

2004-05-22 Thread Tom Allison
I'm doing a -testing installation of postgresql. I have the user postgres in the passwd file. I don't know what the password is. I'm wondering: Should I know it? I can always su posgres from root, but I don't always want to have to go root first. Is there is any problems with having a real

installation question?

2004-03-06 Thread users
We are using Debian for a linux installation, .. yet there is NO need to setup a Server and all that jazz. The only instructions or How to guides we have instruct building a server, networking, etc. [b:47e5d03b6f]All we want is a Regular WORKSTATION setup.[/b:47e5d03b6f] word processing,

Re: installation question?

2004-03-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/03/04 08:29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Debian for a linux installation, .. yet there is NO need to setup a Server and all that jazz. The only instructions or How to guides we have instruct building a server, networking, etc. [b:47e5d03b6f]All we want is a Regular

Re: installation question?

2004-03-06 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Debian for a linux installation, .. yet there is NO need to setup a Server and all that jazz. The only instructions or How to guides we have instruct building a server, networking, etc. [b:47e5d03b6f]All we want is a Regular WORKSTATION

kernel-header installation question

2003-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
I'm seeing to compile an inteface for the nVidia driver on a new basic installation of debian 3.0r1. The nVida installation dialog says the kernel headers are not found. So I install the headers. The first time that went well, and the second time: # aptitude install

Re: kernel-header installation question

2003-10-27 Thread Albert Dengg
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:52:02 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: ... I find that my /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 directory only holds a .config file and an include directory. I assume that what I should see here is a file with an .h extension if the header is actually

Re: kernel-header installation question

2003-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:52:02 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: I find that my /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 directory only holds a .config file and an include directory. I assume that what I should see here is a file with an .h extension if the header is

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