Re: Re: installing woody 3.0r2 on HP Proliant DL140

2005-07-15 Thread Craig E. Smith
I had the same problem using Slackware 10.1. I'm not sure what the problem is, but upgrading the BIOS to the latest and greatest didn't help. The only fix I found is to use GRUB. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing Woody and LARGE download of UNCHOOSEN packages

2005-06-03 Thread Sebastijan Plut
I have installed Debian Woody 3.0r5 from Netinstall CD disk. After installation has succesfuly finished I have made apt-get update and apt-get upgrade (even if it would'nt be necessary). Then I have open dselect and found MC package - chose it nad exit. Then I have selected Install and be

Re: Installing Woody and LARGE download of UNCHOOSEN packages

2005-06-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Sebastijan Plut wrote: Was it something wrong during Debian config? I have to mention that I have not say YES when asked Run TaskSel nor DSelect during Debian Config. Where did I failed? I believe this is a well known and much hated side-effect of opening dselect - a default package

Installing woody 3.0r5 on HP Proliant DL140

2005-05-22 Thread Nicola Guarracino - Dip. Fisica UniCal +39 984 496030
Hi, after Debian 3.0r5 installation on HP Proliant DL140 the system is rebooted and I get this message LILO 22.2 Loading Linux... but the system hangs. If anyone has successfully installed this version on same server type and have some tips, I'd greatly appreciate it. Nicola Guarracino

Re: Installing woody 3.0r5 on HP Proliant DL140

2005-05-22 Thread dexter2
Looks like you don't have correct kernel for this server. If you do not find kernel allready compiled for this server, you will have to configure and compile kernel yourself. Dexter2 On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 09:08 +, Nicola Guarracino - Dip. Fisica UniCal +39 984 496030 wrote: Hi, after

installing woody 3.0r2 on HP Proliant DL140

2004-12-05 Thread HXD
Hi, I download woody 3.0r2 (created CD) for i386 processor since server is running on Xeon chip (is this correct?) After installation is completed and system is rebooted, I only get the following msg: "LILO 2.22 Loading linux." and the system hangs. Is anyone experiencing this as well. If

Re: installing woody 3.0r2 on HP Proliant DL140

2004-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 00:38 -0800, HXD wrote: Hi, I download woody 3.0r2 (created CD) for i386 processor since server is running on Xeon chip (is this correct?) After installation is completed and system is rebooted, I only get the following msg: LILO 2.22 Loading linux. and

Installing Woody with USB keyboard and mouse.

2004-11-11 Thread mj-barton
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:27:37AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do install Debian "Woody" with a USB keyboard and mouse? I only have usb ports. When I try it says "Keyboard not recognized". I want use Debian badly. I hate using Suse 9.1You'll probably have much better luck trying to

Installing Woody with USB keyboard and mouse.

2004-11-10 Thread mj-barton
How do install Debian Woody with a USB keyboard and mouse? I only have usb ports. When I try it says Keyboard not recognized. I want use Debian badly. I hate using Suse 9.1 I googled this problem and I could not find a solution. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Installing Woody with USB keyboard and mouse.

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:27:37AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do install Debian Woody with a USB keyboard and mouse? I only have usb ports. When I try it says Keyboard not recognized. I want use Debian badly. I hate using Suse 9.1 You'll probably have much better luck trying to

Can't get PCMCIA card going when installing Woody

2004-10-07 Thread Ian McCall
Using the standard boot floppies (rescue, root, four driver disks) on an old P150 laptop with no CD drive. Get to 'Configure a network', and it correctly asks me if my network card is PCMCIA. However, if I then ask for it to auto-configure, it fails. Same for manually configured - I get a

Re: Need help installing Woody

2004-05-30 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 29 May 2004 23:30:11 +0200, Wolfgang Zocher wrote: Any hints to possible snares are welcome! Is it correct, what you ask is: 'Can I share the swap for both installs (distros) ? In case this is the question, the unambiguous answer is 'yes'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Need help installing Woody

2004-05-29 Thread Wolfgang Zocher
Hi friends, the HDD of a running system is structured as follows: hda1primary win95 Fat325GBBootable hda5logical Linux ext2 xxx hda6logical Linux swap yyy hda7logical Linux ReiserFS zzz Now, I want to install Debian Woody on hda1 sharing the same swap on

Problems installing woody

2004-05-16 Thread Trollcollect
Hello list, i've put several hours, if not days into this attempt to install woody and i am at my wits end now. If you can , please help. As i cant follow the list, please cc: this address in any reply. I have bought an IBM x205 server and additionally ordered a ServeRaid 4lx raid controller as

UPDATE: Problems installing woody

2004-05-16 Thread Trollcollect
Out of curiosity i tried blade's boot floppy just to see wether the module would load cleanly (unlike the one i built). It indeed does. Boiling my problem down to: how did he make those modules? I really dont want to use the modules on the floppy as he himself says they could easily be compromised

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:44:03AM -0800, Renhao Zhang wrote: --- Darik Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to Windows, KNOPPIX networks just fine with no problems. If your computer runs Windows 98 and Knoppix properly, then your Debian installation isn't loading drivers

Re: networking problem encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-22 Thread Renhao Zhang
Aurélien, Thank you for your prompt and insightful reply. I'll get a move on learning to compiling my own kernel. Hopefully, that'll get the networking functioning. In the mean time, I'd still like to learn exactly how my setup isn't working and what I am fixing. The following is the info you

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-22 Thread Darik Horn
In addition to Windows, KNOPPIX networks just fine with no problems. If your computer runs Windows 98 and Knoppix properly, then your Debian installation isn't loading drivers for all of your hardware. First, install a recent kernel: # apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 Second, install

Re: networking problem encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-22 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le lun 22/03/2004 à 09:22, Renhao Zhang a écrit : Aurlien, Thank you for your prompt and insightful reply. I'll get a move on learning to compiling my own kernel. Wait a minute... ! # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast

Re: networking problem encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-22 Thread Renhao Zhang
--- Aurélien_Campéas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have a problem with dhcp here. Are you sure you want it ? It seems like the dhcp client doesn't find a dhcp server... I mean, why not pick up some private ip adress (like 192.168.0.2) and rewrite your eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces as

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-22 Thread Renhao Zhang
--- Darik Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to Windows, KNOPPIX networks just fine with no problems. If your computer runs Windows 98 and Knoppix properly, then your Debian installation isn't loading drivers for all of your hardware. This seemed to be the most likely culprit,

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-20 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:31:42PM -0800, Renhao Zhang wrote: I have the exact same network card that you do, and have had the same problem. I have never been able to do a net install with dhcp using the bf2.4 kernel. So what I do is just install the base system with the vanilla kernel. Then

frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-19 Thread Renhao Zhang
I'm trying to dual boot an old Pentium box with Debian Woody and win98. The few bugs I've encountered are falling one by one as I work on the new installation. However, one persistant mystery has remained stuborn. Here is the problem: booting from Windows, I can get onto my home LAN and reach

installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate, the pc has an IO Magic CD-ROM and an LG CD-RW. Prior to buying the new

Re: installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

2004-02-23 Thread xucaen
Hi all, something very interesting. I booted debian on my old western digital as primary master (on board ide) and my cd-rom as secondary master and cd-rw as secondary slave. My siig ultra ata is installed and my seagate is connected to it's primary and the drive is jumped as master. The western

installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

2004-02-22 Thread xucaen
Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate, the pc has an IO Magic CD-ROM and an LG CD-RW. Prior to buying the new

Re: installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

2004-02-22 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:57:07 -0500, xucaen wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install woody (3.0r1) from CD's on a PC with an AMD K6 II 500mhz and a brand new Seagate 80GB Barracuda Ultra ata/100 and a brand new SIIG ultra ata/133 pci controller. in addition to the new Seagate, the pc has an IO

Re: Re: installing woody using siig ultra ata/133 pci card

2004-02-22 Thread xucaen
Maybe the SIIG isn't even compatible with linux? Is there a boot floppy out there that I can use to get the installation going? How can I get the debian installation to see the Seagate? Jim Did you try fdisk the first thing after you booted the CD? No, the installation doesn't see the

RE: trouble installing Woody w/ raid card

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Kahle
On Friday, February 06, 2004 2:58 PM Isaac wrote: hello everyone, hello I trying to install Debian 3 on a IBM Netfinity 5600 (8664-4RY) server. This server has a IBM serveraid card (i think it is a 4L but might be a 4P) with 4 scsi disks in raid5+spare configuration. This server is dual P3

trouble installing Woody w/ raid card

2004-02-06 Thread Isaac
hello everyone, I trying to install Debian 3 on a IBM Netfinity 5600 (8664-4RY) server. This server has a IBM serveraid card (i think it is a 4L but might be a 4P) with 4 scsi disks in raid5+spare configuration. This server is dual P3 machine (only one processor installed) with a S3 video

Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread Izi Goldenberg
Hi I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, but the installer doesn't recognize the card. after googling for it, I found some links to disk drivers, but they aren't available anymore. I tried to compile the ips.o module on another computer (downloaded the 2.4.18

Re: Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 09:24, Izi Goldenberg wrote: Hi I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, but the installer doesn't recognize the card. after googling for it, I found some links to disk drivers, but they aren't available anymore. I tried to compile

RE: Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread Michael Kahle
I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, Had the same problem tracking this down myself. does anybody have a working link to a driver disk (or can instruct me how to compile the module so it will load)? This page got me started on the hunt:

installing woody

2003-04-03 Thread jim
Hello. I have been using Mandrake linux for about 6 months now. It has been a nice little intro into the world of linux and have learned tons. Not entirely satisfied with the RPM package management system that MDK uses and after having done some research am considering switching to Debian(my

Re: installing woody

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:12 am, jim wrote: Hello. I have been using Mandrake linux for about 6 months now. It has been a nice little intro into the world of linux and have learned tons. Not entirely satisfied with the RPM package management

Problem installing woody

2003-03-03 Thread Srinivas Rao
Hello I am trying to install the current stable version of Debian thru the network. I have a Netgear FA311 NIC. So while I am adding modules to the kernel, I add the netsami module(National Semiconductors). Now when I try to go online to download other packages, I can not do this. I have a

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

2003-02-19 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

2003-02-17 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 kernel

Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Frank Murphy
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 them for Grub. (I failed and ended up installing from floppies.) What

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 them

PreDepend error in installing Woody from CDs

2003-01-31 Thread David Turetsky
After having been away from my Debian Linux system for some time, I just purchased the set of 7 CDs to upgrade my system to Woody I followed the Release Notes, upgrading using dselect, and ran into a PreDepend error, which aborted the upgrade Ive been spending some time reading the

Problem with installing Woody

2003-01-25 Thread hans
I installed the base system of Debian 3.0 from CD-Rom which was made bootable. Then, the installation program could not find /dev/cdrom any longer. It is linked to /dev/hdd. I tried to mount it manually, but I was told that no medium was present. I could not believe it because the base system was

Installing Woody on MIPS via CDROM

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Madden
Is there anything special about getting Woody installed on MIPS using a CDROM? I've loaded Woody on x86 and HPPA without any problems, but I cannot get my Indigo2 to boot off the cd to start the install. The same Indigo2 boots up off the cd and installs Irix 5.3 just fine. Thanks, Mike --

Re: installing woody off the cd's

2002-11-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:18:49AM -0500, blaise dupart wrote: I have been trying to install debian 3.0 for the first time using the cd's I burned from the image files. However, debian can't seem to find the files on the cd even though I can see them using any other computer. Is this a cd

SYSLINUX: Boot Failed installing woody

2002-10-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I just built a new machine (AMD XP 2200+, 1G RAM), and I'm trying to do a network install of woody. I haven't done this, since I haven't inaugurated a new machine since potato. I created and verified the rescue, root, and driver floppies, and booted to the rescue floppy. But on

Re: SYSLINUX: Boot Failed installing woody

2002-10-10 Thread Adam Galant
Greetings- I just built a new machine (AMD XP 2200+, 1G RAM), and I'm trying to do a network install of woody. I haven't done this, since I haven't inaugurated a new machine since potato. I created and verified the rescue, root, and driver floppies, and booted to the rescue floppy. But

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-06-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:54:37 -0400, you wrote: begin Noah Sombrero quotation: on a promise 66 card. Don't know why potato thinks it is e. Is it possible that woody thinks it is something else? dmesg | grep ^hd This would work if I were able to boot woody to run it. From Potato, of

Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
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, and onboard video (SIS530/620) and network drivers(SIS900)...

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, and

Re: Problems installing woody

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

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 and

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
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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(SIS900)...

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
] Cc: Debian - US debian-user@lists.debian.org 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 went doing an apt-get install package ( xlib6g-dev) that required (libc6

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: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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 ping the

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 connected to? If

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 update

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. then I

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 /dev/hd?

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 debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Problems installing woody

Re: Problems installing woody

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 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... ... at the primary controller, slave

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
, 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 'task-x-window-system'. McLaren:/# apt

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

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

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 what

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'

Problems installing woody - it is solved and I have a graphic interface running :-)

2002-06-12 Thread Francisco Fialho
I would like to thank everybody that helped me put up my X server up! It`s now working and I have a graphic interface! You guys are great! Hope I can learn and help you all, the same way you helped me! :-) Thank you all for your great help and support :-) Regards

Downloading and installing woody

2002-06-05 Thread Francisco Fialho
I'm new to Debian, first heard about it at the Install Fest that took place at Univeristy of Campinas ( one of brazilians top 3 ). I downloaded it, and tried to install Debian 2.2rev6, but unsuccessfully. I had problems with the network and video card, but know I want to try it again with the

Re: Downloading and installing woody

2002-06-05 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:02, Francisco Fialho wrote: I'm new to Debian, first heard about it at the Install Fest that took place at Univeristy of Campinas ( one of brazilians top 3 ). I downloaded it, and tried to install Debian 2.2rev6, but unsuccessfully. I had problems with the network and

installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, this is as close as I can get in booting woody: Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted VFS: cannot open root device 2109 or 21:09 Please append correct root= boot option The root option in lilo.cfg is root=/dev/hde9 What to

Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread craigw
On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:35:55AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, this is as close as I can get in booting woody: Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted VFS: cannot open root device 2109 or 21:09 Please append correct root=

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:13:23 -0700, you wrote: On Sun Apr 28, 2002 at 01:35:55AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, this is as close as I can get in booting woody: Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted VFS: cannot open root

Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:35:55AM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: Booting from floppy or hd, stock kernel or handrolled, this is as close as I can get in booting woody: Request-Module[block-major-33]:Root fs not mounted VFS: cannot open root device 2109 or 21:09 Please append correct root=

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:10:05 -0400, you wrote: Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to woody? woody should boot with same kernel you had with potato. You mean I can't use the new 2.4 line? Naw, that can't be right. Maybe I can't be trusted will all this new complicated stuff, spose?

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:21:06PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:10:05 -0400, you wrote: Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to woody? woody should boot with same kernel you had with potato. You mean I can't use the new 2.4 line? Naw, that can't be right.

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. It requires you to install and at the same time configure few things. Mostly initrd related staff. did apt-get

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:53:14PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. It requires you to install and at the same

Re: Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Noah Sombrero
Anyway, I can assure you this initrd scheme and highly modular pre-packaged 2.4 kernel-image need steap lerning curve. It was tough on me. Thanks for your useful advice. Gleason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:53:14PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. It requires you to install and at the same

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:21:06PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:10:05 -0400, you wrote: Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to woody? woody should boot with same kernel you had with potato. You mean I can't use the new 2.4 line? Naw, that can't be right.

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Sombrero quotation: on a promise 66 card. Don't know why potato thinks it is e. Is it possible that woody thinks it is something else? dmesg | grep ^hd -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more

Re: problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

2002-03-26 Thread Richard Palfalvi
thx Oliver! your suggestion worked perfectly :-))) yours, Richard On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 13:08, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 11:53, Richard Palfalvi wrote: During the installation-process with dselect it run into the following error: Removing gnome-games

problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

2002-03-24 Thread Richard Palfalvi
Hi ! I have the following problem. I once installed potato on an old pentium-machine and then didn't use it for a year or so. Now I d like to use it again and tried to update to WOODY (before there was nothing really important on the machine), so I just pointed apt in sources.list to the

Re: problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

2002-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 11:53, Richard Palfalvi wrote: During the installation-process with dselect it run into the following error: Removing gnome-games /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-games.postrm: scrollkeeper-update: command not found dpkg: error processing gnome-games (--remove): subprocess

Installing Woody from CD-8

2002-03-21 Thread Paul F. Pearson
I thought I saw soemwhere that someone installed woody from the disk8 iso. Well, I downloaded the iso (I had lots of problems downloading woody; the only computer I could get any success from has limited HD space,so I had to get the small one). When I booted the CD, all started going well until

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Scott Henson wrote: I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never recomend that. How long ago, what went wrong, and did you report bugs? We put a lot of effort into making upgrades to woody work well. -- see shy jo

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: What's the recommended approach for installing Woody these days? I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade now three times in the past year; twice on my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successful. The first time, dpkg couldn't preconfigure and I had to start installing packages one

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade now three times in the past year; twice on my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successful. The

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
*** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: One suggestion might be to do: apt-get -d dist-upgrade apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade call me a newbie, but what would the exact lines be that someone should add to their sources.list file to

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:33:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade now three times in the past year; twice on my own

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Scott Henson wrote: I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never recomend that. How long ago, what went wrong, and did you report bugs? We put a lot of effort

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:04:34 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: One suggestion might be to do: apt-get -d dist-upgrade apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade call me a newbie, but

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
Before getting to the steps below how would one go about getting around the issue of my Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard and Wireless Intellimouse Explorer not working in the install screens of 2.2_rev5. I can press enter at the boot: prompt when the CD boots up, but the first screen locks up. I

Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-06 Thread Chris Kenrick
What's the recommended approach for installing Woody these days? Is is still best to install a minimal Potato then dist-upgrade, or is there a better way. - Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: What's the recommended approach for installing Woody these days? I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never recomend that. What I did is got some woody disks and did

Installing Woody from CD

2002-02-04 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated the last week in January, if I actually blow CDs of these will I actually be able to do a clean install of Woody. I just wanted to cjeck before I wasted 8 CDRs. Thanks Pat -- --- Pat

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