Thanks Derek. Continuing with aptitude this morning, and installing
probably way too many packages (took a long time), yielded a running
system, with PCMCIA support, ethernet working, etc. Whew! :-)
Derek Broughton wrote:
I found that I needed to change my /etc/default/pcmcia settings from
"PC
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
The machine now boots correctly. Unfortunately, it doesn't recognize my
PCMCIA Ethernet adapter (out of the box), and I haven't installed X and
KDE yet, so I have just a lovely full screen black console window, but
I'm declaring victory for the day, logging off, and takin
Thanks Derek. Continuing with aptitude this morning, and installing
probably way too many packages (took a long time), yielded a running
system, with PCMCIA support, ethernet working, etc. Whew! :-)
Derek Broughton wrote:
I found that I needed to change my /etc/default/pcmcia settings from
"PCI
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
The machine now boots correctly. Unfortunately, it doesn't recognize my
PCMCIA Ethernet adapter (out of the box), and I haven't installed X and
KDE yet, so I have just a lovely full screen black console window, but
I'm declaring victory for the day, logging off, and taking
Whew. What a PITA. I now have Debian SID with kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686
running on my old Dell laptop.
I booted off of LindowsOS Live CD. I then grabbed debootstrap from the
sid distribution, and ran it. It failed multiple times finding certain
packages, which I downloaded by hand and then rera
Whew. What a PITA. I now have Debian SID with kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686
running on my old Dell laptop.
I booted off of LindowsOS Live CD. I then grabbed debootstrap from the
sid distribution, and ran it. It failed multiple times finding certain
packages, which I downloaded by hand and then reran
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>> Surely you _don't_ have a Minix filesystem (at least, iirc, there's a
>> plan to drop support for it, so I doubt it has much use), so you need
>> to look at /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and possibly your boot loader to
>> figure out why it thinks it s
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>
>> Surely you _don't_ have a Minix filesystem (at least, iirc, there's a
>> plan to drop support for it, so I doubt it has much use), so you need
>> to look at /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and possibly your boot loader to
>> figure out why it thinks it sh
That seemed extremely strange to me as well. That said, I have a
strong suspicion where this came from. I originally booted from a
"freedos" floppy, to wipe out the drive with fdisk from my original
Xandros install, which the Debian CD couldn't install to. Perhaps that
left the partition marked
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device hda2.
Surely you _don't_ have a Minix filesystem (at least, iirc, there's a
plan to drop support for it, so I doubt it has much use), so you need to
look at /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and possibly your boot loader to
Ouch. Yesterday I mentioned that I never used the lilo command before.
Of course, what was implied (but not stated) was that I have never
edited (nor looked at) lilo.conf before either. I realize now how
stupid the configuration below was.
Thank you very much for pointing that out. Ironically,
That seemed extremely strange to me as well. That said, I have a
strong suspicion where this came from. I originally booted from a
"freedos" floppy, to wipe out the drive with fdisk from my original
Xandros install, which the Debian CD couldn't install to. Perhaps that
left the partition marked
Hadar Pedhazur wrote:
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device hda2.
Surely you _don't_ have a Minix filesystem (at least, iirc, there's a
plan to drop support for it, so I doubt it has much use), so you need to
look at /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab, and possibly your boot loader to figu
Ouch. Yesterday I mentioned that I never used the lilo command before.
Of course, what was implied (but not stated) was that I have never
edited (nor looked at) lilo.conf before either. I realize now how
stupid the configuration below was.
Thank you very much for pointing that out. Ironically,
Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Perhaps you should post your /etc/lilo.conf, the output of "mount" (in
> >the running Xandros), and perhaps "fdisk -l /dev/your_boot_drive".
>
> Thanks for your continued help. Here are the results of the those
> three commands/files (all of wh
Thanks for your continued help. Here are the results of the those
three commands/files (all of which are the result of booting off of
the Xandros rescue floppy, with kernel 2.4.22-x1):
/etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/cboot.b
message=/boot/splash.lilo
timeout=300
map=/boot/map
promp
Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Perhaps you should post your /etc/lilo.conf, the output of "mount" (in
> >the running Xandros), and perhaps "fdisk -l /dev/your_boot_drive".
>
> Thanks for your continued help. Here are the results of the those
> three commands/files (all of wh
Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Did you run lilo before re-booting? If not, you should boot from CD,
> >mount your root ptn, run lilo, then re-boot.
>
> Oops. Thank you very much. I have installed RH9 on two servers, and
> [snip]
> So, I can boot fine from the Xandros rescue
Thanks for your continued help. Here are the results of the those
three commands/files (all of which are the result of booting off of
the Xandros rescue floppy, with kernel 2.4.22-x1):
/etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
install=/boot/cboot.b
message=/boot/splash.lilo
timeout=300
map=/boot/map
prompt
Oops. Thank you very much. I have installed RH9 on two servers, and
Xandros on this laptop only, but I've never had to change lilo.conf
ever, so I didn't realize this was a necessary step, doh!
OK, so I did that, and got the same error, only now on the "correct"
kernel, namely 2.6.4-1-686.
S
Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Did you run lilo before re-booting? If not, you should boot from CD,
> >mount your root ptn, run lilo, then re-boot.
>
> Oops. Thank you very much. I have installed RH9 on two servers, and
> [snip]
> So, I can boot fine from the Xandros rescue
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Derek Broughton:
Curt Howland wrote:
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understa
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I have to run Knoppix with "knoppix noscsi noapic noapm" on my Vaio to
get it past the unique hardware. That's one of the nice things about
Knoppix, you can turn things off.
It's also nice that the hd install process is simple and straight
forward. However, I
Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur:
>
> When I checked lilo.conf afterwards, it wasn't updated. I added
That's happened to me a lot in the past. I never understood why. Now
I use grub and don't care.
> another section by hand, pointing at the new initrd image (which
> wasn't gzippped, like the Xan
First and foremost, thank you to all of you who responded to my
original post. Whether I end up trying all of the suggestions or not,
I learned from each one, and appreciate the effort to help me out.
A number of the responses revolved around "install another version"
(fill-in-the-blanks) and
Oops. Thank you very much. I have installed RH9 on two servers, and
Xandros on this laptop only, but I've never had to change lilo.conf
ever, so I didn't realize this was a necessary step, doh!
OK, so I did that, and got the same error, only now on the "correct"
kernel, namely 2.6.4-1-686.
So,
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Derek Broughton:
Curt Howland wrote:
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is
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I have to run Knoppix with "knoppix noscsi noapic noapm" on my Vaio to
get it past the unique hardware. That's one of the nice things about
Knoppix, you can turn things off.
It's also nice that the hd install process is simple and straight
forward. However, I
Incoming from Hadar Pedhazur:
>
> When I checked lilo.conf afterwards, it wasn't updated. I added
That's happened to me a lot in the past. I never understood why. Now
I use grub and don't care.
> another section by hand, pointing at the new initrd image (which
> wasn't gzippped, like the Xan
Incoming from Derek Broughton:
> Curt Howland wrote:
> >I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
> >It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
> >anything x86 compatible.
>
> Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is
> d
First and foremost, thank you to all of you who responded to my
original post. Whether I end up trying all of the suggestions or not,
I learned from each one, and appreciate the effort to help me out.
A number of the responses revolved around "install another version"
(fill-in-the-blanks) and t
Curt Howland wrote:
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is
derived from knoppix) on an Inspiron 2500, I wo
Incoming from Derek Broughton:
> Curt Howland wrote:
> >I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
> >It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
> >anything x86 compatible.
>
> Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is
> d
Curt Howland wrote:
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is
derived from knoppix) on an Inspiron 2500, I would
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> OK, so here's the really strange part. The laptop had a running
> version of Xandros Desktop 2.0 running on it,
..and it doesn't have it anymore, right? Since you...
> I then booted from a Win98 floppy. I ran FDISK and created one large
> DOS part
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:36:49 -0500
Hadar Pedhazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and burned)
> the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
I had the very same problem with a toshiba satellite and a newly bought
harddrive. downloaded
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> OK, so here's the really strange part. The laptop had a running
> version of Xandros Desktop 2.0 running on it,
..and it doesn't have it anymore, right? Since you...
> I then booted from a Win98 floppy. I ran FDISK and created one large
> DOS part
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:36:49 -0500
Hadar Pedhazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and burned)
> the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
I had the very same problem with a toshiba satellite and a newly bought
harddrive. downloaded
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Curt-
On Monday 29 March 2004 19:36, Hadar Pedhazur was heart to say:
> I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and
>
I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and burned)
the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
I booted directly from the cd, and hit enter at the boot prompt. I see
the prompts for language, keyboard, etc., however I never see any
prompts for partitioning the hard d
I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and burned)
the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
I booted directly from the cd, and hit enter at the boot prompt. I see
the prompts for language, keyboard, etc., however I never see any
prompts for partitioning the hard driv
I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive.
It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost
anything x86 compatible.
Curt-
On Monday 29 March 2004 19:36, Hadar Pedhazur was heart to say:
> I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and
>
I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and burned)
the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
I booted directly from the cd, and hit enter at the boot prompt. I see
the prompts for language, keyboard, etc., however I never see any
prompts for partitioning the hard dr
I have an old Dell Inspiron 7000. Yesterday, I downloaded (and burned)
the ISO images for debian sid from March 27, 2004.
I booted directly from the cd, and hit enter at the boot prompt. I see
the prompts for language, keyboard, etc., however I never see any
prompts for partitioning the hard drive.
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