Re: Installer trouble: Intel STL2 mobo

Ooops sorry premature whinging. A straight Etch install seems to be working fine now. I think it was fixed by a BIOS upgrade (1.7 to 1.13). Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installer trouble: Intel STL2 mobo

I recently rebuilt a dual 933Mhz P3 machine from a slightly unstable Gigabyte GA-6VXDC7 mobo to a hopefully better Intel STL2. After the switch the machine (up to date Etch, 2.6.18-686 kernel) wouldn't complete the boot sequence... it would hang up with a "hda: interrupt lost" message. OK, I'll j

Bug#277950: debian-installer: www.mirror.ac.uk broken or too unreliable ?

Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Picking www.mirror.ac.uk never seems to work when I pick it from the list of UK mirrors in any of the 3 or 4 installs I've done in the last few months. I used to use this site for all my machines and it was always nice and fast (unlike the official UK de

Re: Root-on-raid install ?

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:59, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > The debian installer, however, doesn't know how to install with root & > boot on anything but a 'plain' partition. There are several ways around > this (search the archives for a message from me describing how to > install to root-on-LV

Root-on-raid install ?

I just tried to use a software raid device as '/', but soon after selecting the partitioner's "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk" a dialog says: "Debian does not currently support using software raid for the root filesystem or /boot partition. A system installed in this way will not b

LVM on Raid (20040704 sarge-i386-netinst.iso)

.7MB size. The machine (dual 933MHz P3) has had no problems with a couple of beta4 installs on it in the past (but only with one 40GB drive and trivial partitioning... this is my fist attempt at raid/lvm) Thanks for any tips. -- Tim Day - www.timday.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Bug#240934: Aha... should have picked the tasksel option

" and "advanced package selection", with apt and dselect only exposed in the latter). -- Tim Day - www.timday.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#236730: Fixed by beta3

Just reinstalled using the beta3 sarge-i386-netinst.iso on the machine and it now seems to have no problems pinging anything or downloading from the repository. So please mark this one closed. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#236730: /var/log/boot & /var/log/dmesg files

ss 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x39) is not claimed by any active driver. -- Tim Day - www.timday.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#236730: Install loads 3c59x, but no connectivity

Package: install Version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso beta 2 Got to the point where it's ready to retrieve packages via http or ftp and it became apparent that the machine's ethernet connection was not up. (Had used same manual IP address configuration to 192.168.7.4 which the machine has always used