rescue disk install
Hi - I have not been able to get past the rescue disk install. I've read and searched through the documents and haven't found anything that relates to what I perceive is the problem. Any help on this would be appreciated: My system is - 900MHz Athelon, 128M RAM, 60G IDE Hard drive, Adaptec SCSI PCI adapter, HP 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI card, USB keyboard & mouse. I downloaded the i386 rescue binary for compact install and for basic install, same problems. Used rawrite2 to make a floppy. The floppy works fine, get the boot: prompt. I have tried normal boot (return), linux mem=128m, and linux mem=128m kbd-reset My symptoms are - No major error messages, but can't stop the scroll. ATA keboard is not found during the process. I get to a prompt asking for the root disk to be inserted, then I'm suppose to press the ENTER key. But, my keyboard does not seem to work. I can't get past this point. Help, Jeff
RE: rescue disk install
Has anyone installed potato on a system with a USB keyboard? I have a rescue and root disk, but when I'm asked to insert the root disk and press return, nothing happens. I put the root disk in but can't get the install to continue. It doesn't seem to recognize my keboard. Thanks - Jeff
RE: rescue disk install
Thanks for the ideas Brian. Luckily I had a 6 pin connector on the tower and another keyboard. It got me up an installed - now the moment of truth :o I'm going to reboot and see if the system works. I installed the USB keyboard driver. btw - this is my first install. Thanks Jeff -Original Message- From: Brian Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:56 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: rescue disk install On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:20:13AM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote: > Has anyone installed potato on a system with a USB keyboard? > I have a rescue and root disk, but when I'm asked to insert > the root disk and press return, nothing happens. I put the > root disk in but can't get the install to continue. It doesn't > seem to recognize my keboard. > > Thanks - Jeff I haven't tried a USB-only keyboard with linux, but... Did you try enabling USB keyboard support in the BIOS? I'm not sure what that does, but it may work... Do you have a USB/pin-6 or whatever adapter for it? Or does it have both a USB and pin-6 connections on the same cable? Mine does, and I simultaneously plug in both ends so I have normal keyboard support and can use the built-in USB hub. Otherwise, you may have to make your own boot disk with USB keyboard support if there aren't any currently available. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: rescue disk install
Thanks for the ideas Brian. Luckily I had a 6 pin connector on the tower and another keyboard. It got me up an installed - now the moment of truth :o I'm going to reboot and see if the system works. I installed the USB keyboard driver. btw - this is my first install. Thanks Jeff -Original Message- From: Brian Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:56 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: rescue disk install On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 01:20:13AM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote: > Has anyone installed potato on a system with a USB keyboard? > I have a rescue and root disk, but when I'm asked to insert > the root disk and press return, nothing happens. I put the > root disk in but can't get the install to continue. It doesn't > seem to recognize my keboard. > > Thanks - Jeff I haven't tried a USB-only keyboard with linux, but... Did you try enabling USB keyboard support in the BIOS? I'm not sure what that does, but it may work... Do you have a USB/pin-6 or whatever adapter for it? Or does it have both a USB and pin-6 connections on the same cable? Mine does, and I simultaneously plug in both ends so I have normal keyboard support and can use the built-in USB hub. Otherwise, you may have to make your own boot disk with USB keyboard support if there aren't any currently available. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
printing
Newbie here... I've used unix systems for years and am certainly not an expert. I'm new to Linux and just installed it on my pc. Why can't I print? There is no lp, lpr command. There is a /dev/lp0 device and my printer was recognized during installation. I found documentation that said I needed to install a package like LPD, but haven't found any packages that refer to printer in dselect. I think I'm going down the wrong path with this print thing. Any suggestions for getting print capability? I'm heading to the bookstore tomorrow, then maybe I can ask more intelligent questions :o Thanks Jeff
Network Startup
Greetings, Thanks to everyone's help I am pretty much up and running :) And I finally bought a book "Running Linux", it's been a lot of help too. I created a file etc/init.d/network that configures my ethernet network. It seem to work well, I haven't found any problems with connections yet. But, I have to run this file manually as superuser to start my network. I can't seem to find any start up scripts that would use this file. What script file should this routine be called from so that my network gets configured at boot time? Many Thanks Jeff
Network Startup
Greetings, Thanks to everyone's help I am pretty much up and running :) And I finally bought a book "Running Linux", it's been a lot of help too. I created a file etc/init.d/network that configures my ethernet network. It seem to work well, I haven't found any problems with connections yet. But, I have to run this file manually as superuser to start my network. I can't seem to find any start up scripts that would use this file. What script file should this routine be called from so that my network gets configured at boot time? Many Thanks Jeff
Print Share: MSWin98 to Linux
Greetings All! My first Linux (Potato) box is really coming up nicely. Star Office is working well. I have Samba giving me access to drives on Win98 boxes, just need to make em r/w :) My Win98 boxes can print to the printer on my Potato box. BUT, my Potato box can't seem to print to my Win98 box (hp ljet). It gets spooled ok. But checking the queue with lpc it seems to be waiting for the Win98 box. Status message reads: "Waiting for Sony to come up" "Sony" is the name of my Win98 box. I have tried different guest account names in my smb.conf file (ftp, jeff, guest, nobody) and it makes no difference. The ethernet leds flicker when I send a job to the print queue, but the job still sits in the queue waiting for the box to "come up". If someone has any experience with doing this, I'd really appreciate seeing if there is something wrong in my printcap or smb.conf files. (included) I've installed the following packages in order to get this far ;) samba samba-common smbclient smbfs magicfilter Thanks - Jeff # /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5). djet|lp|local|LPT1:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\ :rw:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: ljet|hpljet|Laser Jet:\ :lp=:\ :rm=Sony:\ :rp=HPLJET:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/lj4l-filter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: ; /etc/smb.conf [global] printing = bsd printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes guest account = nobody security = user announce as = Win95 workgroup = @HOME server string = %h server (Samba %v) syslog only = no syslog = 0; socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=4096 SO_RCVBUF=4096 encrypt passwords = yes wins support = yes domain master = yes local master = yes preferred master = yes os level = 65 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast dns proxy = no preserve case = yes short preserve case = yes unix password sync = false passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . max log size = 1000 [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes read only = yes create mask = 0700 directory mask = 0700 [printers] path = /tmp printable = yes guest only = yes
