Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive - SUCCESS (sort of)

2004-04-01 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
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

Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive - SUCCESS (sort of)

2004-04-01 Thread Derek Broughton
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

Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive - SUCCESS (sort of)

2004-04-01 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
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

Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive - SUCCESS (sort of)

2004-04-01 Thread Derek Broughton
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

Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive - SUCCESS (sort of)

2004-03-31 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
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

Re: Debian Install CD doesn't recognize my hard drive - SUCCESS (sort of)

2004-03-31 Thread Hadar Pedhazur
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