Re: no kernels found

2013-04-05 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:34:10PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi Chris, > > What happened here? The install media is labelled 'Debian' but there is > an Ubuntu repository found? > > > Apr 4 22:41:13 base-installer: 'Debian GNU/Linux wheezy-DI-rc1 _Wheezy_ - > > Official Snapshot i386 C

Re: no kernels found

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 03:06:00AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 19:46 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > > Apr 4 22:28:38 kernel: [ 101.522661] FAT-fs (sda5): utf8 is not a > > recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case > >

Re: no kernels found

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Frey
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:04:02PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > Why can't it find the kernel? Looks like it was because of this, from the USB stick I was using, with messages from syslog: Apr 4 22:28:38 kernel: [ 101.522661] FAT-fs (sda5): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset

Re: no kernels found

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Frey
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 07:04:02PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote: > I'm back again, this time trying to install using the RC1 wheezy installer > to a Dell Inspiron 630m. Side note: when I select "Help" from the installer boot menu, the installer goes into an endless loop, with the

no kernels found

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Frey
I'm back again, this time trying to install using the RC1 wheezy installer to a Dell Inspiron 630m. It fails for me at the end of installing the base system. In the syslog, it shows: Apr 4 22:41:27 base-installer: info: Found kernels '' Apr 4 22:41:35 base-installer: error: exiting on error b

Re: trouble with networking on T40

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Frey
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:13:31PM -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 03/31/2013 02:08 PM, Chris Frey wrote: > > Do I need to put this file in a special directory? > > Yes: > "To prepare a USB stick (or other medium like a hard drive partition, or > floppy disk), the

trouble with networking on T40

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Frey
Hi, I'm having a rough time trying to get the non-free firmware to load automatically in the debian wheezy rc1 installer, when installing on a ThinkPad T40. According to the documentation I've read, all I should need to do is download the firmware.tar.gz file and put it on a USB key. I've used u