Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Slaven Peles explained: This is weired. After install did you do dpkg -l? If so, what X packages did you have installed? Also, when you did a 5th install, did you "initialize" partition where you installed debian first? know. I didn't know to. Yes, did initialize the partition using reiser

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Slaven Peles explained: This is weired. After install did you do dpkg -l? If so, what X packages did you have installed? Also, when you did a 5th install, did you "initialize" partition where you installed debian first? know. I didn't know to. Yes, did initialize the partition using reiserfs.

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:39:18AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four > >failures. > > now 5th failure. > > bf24 install > took most debs from CD with balance from main Debian mirror and security >

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Slaven Peles
On Sunday 21 September 2003 02:39, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four > > > > failures. > > now 5th failure. > > bf24 install > took most debs from CD with balance from main Debian mirror and security > > task

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Try using a netinst cd and installing from that. http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:28:09PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > this might not be appropriate for this list but... > > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four failures. > > built a

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Tapio Lehtonen
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:39:18AM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four > >failures. > > now 5th failure. > > bf24 install > took most debs from CD with balance from main Debian mirror and security >

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Slaven Peles
On Sunday 21 September 2003 02:39, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four > > > > failures. > > now 5th failure. > > bf24 install > took most debs from CD with balance from main Debian mirror and security > > task

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Try using a netinst cd and installing from that. http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:28:09PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > this might not be appropriate for this list but... > > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four failures. > > built a

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four failures. now 5th failure. bf24 install took most debs from CD with balance from main Debian mirror and security tasksel had no X11 option, selected desktop and laptop failed at: shutting down PC

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four failures. now 5th failure. bf24 install took most debs from CD with balance from main Debian mirror and security tasksel had no X11 option, selected desktop and laptop failed at: shutting down PCMCIA

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-19 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:28:09PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > 1: bf24 install: kind of works. After selecting laptop and a couple of > other tasks, network install seemed to work OK but there's no X11 > configuration. Investigation shows only a partial install and startx > complains abou

Re: having trouble getting started

2003-09-19 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:28:09PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > 1: bf24 install: kind of works. After selecting laptop and a couple of > other tasks, network install seemed to work OK but there's no X11 > configuration. Investigation shows only a partial install and startx > complains abou

having trouble getting started

2003-09-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
this might not be appropriate for this list but... Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four failures. built a copy of cd1 using the jigdo process. seems to boot OK 1: bf24 install: kind of works. After selecting laptop and a couple of other tasks, network install se

having trouble getting started

2003-09-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
this might not be appropriate for this list but... Trying to install Debian on my inspiron 5000. four attempts, four failures. built a copy of cd1 using the jigdo process. seems to boot OK 1: bf24 install: kind of works. After selecting laptop and a couple of other tasks, network install see