Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Beauchamp
[Apologies for the dodgy quoting - copied off the web archive!] I've just been reading through this thread, 'cos I appear to be experiencing exactly the same problems as Ariel here... I have a completely blank HD (just removed from box - previous HD just died rather horribly), and bunged in the l

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-14 Thread Phil Blundell
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 07:37, Ariel Tankus wrote: > I think it is weird to leave some files on older archives like potato's, > forcing any mirror site to mirror also potato! You'd have to take that up with ftpmaster. I don't really know anything about the details of how the archive is supposed to

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:23:46PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: > >The at_3.1.8-10_i386.deb has exactly the same size as the Packages file > > specified (a Packages file I just downloaded). However, I checked 3 ftp > > sites, bu

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: > Since I have the /dev/hda4 unchanged, I just checked what's going on there > right now (following the installation attempt my original message referred > to). > > retina:/mnt/var/cache/apt/archives# ls -l > total 896 > -rw-r--r--

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:32:33PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: >The at_3.1.8-10_i386.deb has exactly the same size as the Packages file > specified (a Packages file I just downloaded). However, I checked 3 ftp > sites, but they had no ``at'' for i386 at their pools! The version in woody is th

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:35:05PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:51:40PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: > > 1. After entering the root floppy, and immediately before the first > > screen (the Debian 3.0 title), the following error messages occured: > > modprobe: m

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-13 Thread Philip Blundell
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 09:51:40PM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: > 1. After entering the root floppy, and immediately before the first > screen (the Debian 3.0 title), the following error messages occured: > modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file > /lib/modules/2.2.20/modules.d

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-12 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:50:49PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > I then tried a brand new installation, including formatting the partition. > >In this case, the whole installation, until the base system installation, went > >smooth. Not a single error and no hack needed. At the base system

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-10 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:50:49PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > > I then tried a brand new installation, including formatting the partition. > >In this case, the whole installation, until the base system installation, went > >smooth. Not a single error and no hack needed. At the base system

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 09/01/02, Philip Blundell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Just to reiterate: I believe the problem was that the http > > connection process used to download the base system from the > > internet is broken under woody. The system could not even hit our > > proxy server, never mind connect to

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Philip Blundell
> I then tried a brand new installation, including formatting the partition. >In this case, the whole installation, until the base system installation, went >smooth. Not a single error and no hack needed. At the base system >installation, the error message occured once again. Okay. First, ca

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Ariel Tankus
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:49:25PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: > >Just to reiterate: I believe the problem was that the http connection > >process used to download the base system from the internet is broken > >under woody. The system could not even hit our proxy server, never mind > >connect to

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Philip Blundell
>Just to reiterate: I believe the problem was that the http connection >process used to download the base system from the internet is broken >under woody. The system could not even hit our proxy server, never mind >connect to ftp.uk.debian.com It seems to work for most people. Are you sure you h

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-09 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 08/01/02, Chris Tillman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: > >I just saw the e-mails in this subject, and I'd like to add > > that deleting the file may not be enough. From my experience > > (reported to debian-testing mailing list;

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-08 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Ariel Tankus wrote: > Chris, > >I just saw the e-mails in this subject, and I'd like to add > that deleting the file may not be enough. From my experience > (reported to debian-testing mailing list; see there for a detailed > description), erasing t

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-08 Thread Ariel Tankus
Chris, I just saw the e-mails in this subject, and I'd like to add that deleting the file may not be enough. From my experience (reported to debian-testing mailing list; see there for a detailed description), erasing the file may not be enough. I tried several things, including manually e

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-06 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 4/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tillman) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > > I am using a modified version of the kernel o

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:06:28AM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 4/1/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Tillman) wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Ro

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:50:11PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > I am using a modified version of the kernel on the rescue disk at > > > > > > >

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/01/02, Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:18, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I am using a modified version of the kernel on the rescue disk at > > > > >

Re: URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 07:02, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > And get the message > "Malformed release file > http://ftp.uk.debian.org:80/debian/dists/woody/Release. What version of boot-floppies is this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

URGENT! Install Base System via network: settings wrong

2002-01-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi. With the help of this list I've got a woody megaraid set of boot floppies made up. All is going well until the base system install. I'm trying to do this through our firewall on 10.0.0.1:8000. On console 2 I can ping ftp.uk.debian.org successfully. I punch in the following: Download URL : ht