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> (sorry about the mime, if any.. i'm using hotmail)(sorry about the bad wording >too...) > > I have a compaq presario 1220 POS laptop (200mhz cyrix mediagx w/80mb ram/2gb > hard drive). I am trying to install debian on it with boot-floppies > 3.0.19 and i have had several errors. The first time i tried it, i > managed to do a net install over my school's LAN with dhcp and it downloaded > the base packages with no problems... I took it home and went to step 2, > and this is where the problem starts.. First of all, it froze when syncing > hardware clock and sysclock, but that is the laptop's fault... On tty1, it says > configuring base system, and it just sits there. After about 30 mins, i Am I correct that this is after you have rebooted into the new system, in which case this should be a bug assigned to base-config. > went over to tty2, and did ps -ax, and i noticed it was trying to display it on > pts/0... i killed some random processes, and i was just gonna do dselect and > whatnot manually, but it won't let me get rid of all of base-config's child > processes... I did a second try (this time, with a bootable cd made from > rescue.bin with drivers.tgz on it) and now it won't let me manually set > the network settings... after the network configuration, it says "The > network was not initialized properly... it will work when you reboot, if you > configured it correctly"... So i switched over to tty2, used ifconfig and > route to configure my ethernet interfaces... can you please provide more details about how you were configuring the network, are you sure that you didn't type anything incorrectly? > it let me go to the next > step, but then it said it downloaded a malformed release file... i have > tried using basedebs.tar (although i had to mess around and manually gzip it to > make the installer recognize it) Does anyone know if this is fixed in cvs yet? > and it still gives me the same problem > after reboot... are there any bugreports on this, or does anybody know > what i'm doing wrong? It sounds like we need a bug report on base-config. > Also, i noticed that the woody installer no longer > asks about sid. How the heck am i supposed to install sid without > dist-upgrading from woody? you aren't, installing sid from boot-floppies is no longer supported. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
