Re: problem installing debian 2.2 potato on a dell inspiron

2000-07-09 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, brent harding wrote: > I don't have enough space to create more partitions. I sure didn't put that > second one on there. If I would've made a windows box I would've taken the > whole disk with the fat32 partition. What if it has problems when I delete > it, the primary only ha

Re: problem installing debian 2.2 potato on a dell inspiron

2000-07-09 Thread A. Demarteau (linux rules!)
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, brent harding wrote: > I don't have enough space to create more partitions. I sure didn't put that > second one on there. If I would've made a windows box I would've taken the > whole disk with the fat32 partition. What if it has problems when I delete > it, the primary only h

Re: problem installing debian 2.2 potato on a dell inspiron

2000-07-09 Thread A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)
hi, well excually you don't have to delete the second partitiation, but I think it's okay to do so. Make sure you don't delete partitation 1 as well. If that is done, just create a /dev/hda2 and had3 partitation where one is an linux code 83 partitation and the other will be swapspace (82). If you

Problems with ppp (or pccard???)

2000-07-09 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
Hi all! Sorry for the long mail. I put some log to help finding the problem. I was using my notebook (Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS) at home (via ppp) and at work (via eth0). I have a ethernet pccard and my modem is a Lucent WinModem (which has a driver for Linux -- ltmodm.o). I'm using unstable. A

problem installing debian 2.2 potato on a dell inspiron 3500

2000-07-09 Thread brent harding
I got as far as downloading the files I need to install debian 2.2 potato on my laptop. It boots up fine, I get to the installer, but now, there's a dilemma with partitions. /dev/hda1 appears to have a little over 1 gig, /dev/hda2 appears to have 4.something gigs, and I thought I had an 8

Re: problem installing debian 2.2 potato on a dell inspiron

2000-07-09 Thread A. Demarteau (linux rules!)
hi, well excually you don't have to delete the second partitiation, but I think it's okay to do so. Make sure you don't delete partitation 1 as well. If that is done, just create a /dev/hda2 and had3 partitation where one is an linux code 83 partitation and the other will be swapspace (82). If you

Problems with ppp (or pccard???)

2000-07-09 Thread Marcio Rosa da Silva
Hi all! Sorry for the long mail. I put some log to help finding the problem. I was using my notebook (Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS) at home (via ppp) and at work (via eth0). I have a ethernet pccard and my modem is a Lucent WinModem (which has a driver for Linux -- ltmodm.o). I'm using unstable.

problem installing debian 2.2 potato on a dell inspiron 3500

2000-07-09 Thread brent harding
I got as far as downloading the files I need to install debian 2.2 potato on my laptop. It boots up fine, I get to the installer, but now, there's a dilemma with partitions. /dev/hda1 appears to have a little over 1 gig, /dev/hda2 appears to have 4.something gigs, and I thought I had an 8

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

2000-07-09 Thread Tony Laszlo
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . I won't be running X and will just need to use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel port modules. Have gone through the installation steps from floppy to the point w

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook

2000-07-09 Thread Tony Laszlo
The following is advice for anyone who runs into the syslinux problem (rescue disk doesn't boot, computer screen displays "boot failed") when trying to install a Debian installation from floppies (maybe some other distributions, as well). The machine here is a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486,

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

2000-07-09 Thread Tony Laszlo
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . I won't be running X and will just need to use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel port modules. Have gone through the installation steps from floppy to the point

Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook

2000-07-09 Thread Tony Laszlo
The following is advice for anyone who runs into the syslinux problem (rescue disk doesn't boot, computer screen displays "boot failed") when trying to install a Debian installation from floppies (maybe some other distributions, as well). The machine here is a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486,