Re: cdrom problem installing etch

2006-05-18 Thread Daniele
Thank you all for the answers!! Finally I managed to install etch using the workaround available here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto as suggested by Stefan. The problem with SATA was solved both with cdrom and disk. Almost everything was ok (except for the ethernet - the

USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
Hello, I have a NEC, model UF0002, USB floppy drive and I cannot mount it on a laptop with sarge 2.6.8. However, I can mount and use a USB flash disk, by adding to fstab the entry /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 autosync,noauto,user,exec 0 0 The entry /dev/sdb/media/usbfd

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

2006-05-18 Thread Daniele
Alle 22:37, mercoledì 17 maggio 2006, Hector Scaramelli ha scritto: > What happen if you try to install sarge using the same drive?? > > Hector When I installed Sarge (on june 2005) I used the 2.4.27 kernel and everything was ok. I supposed (just a supposition...I'm not sure) that the 2.4 kernel

Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
After plugging in the floppy drive take a look at the system messages: dmesg | tail -40 Is your floppy drive really registered as sdb? Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
>After plugging in the floppy drive take a look at the system messages: >dmesg | tail -40 >Is your floppy drive really registered as sdb? This is the output of dmesg | tail -40. I don't know what it means. usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 5 scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass S

Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
OK. I can mount the floppy and see its contents. I have to insert the floppy in the floppy drive first and then plug the usb floppy drive to the computer. I did not change anything to the fstab entry. Thanks for the help Στις Πεμ 18 Μαι 2006 15:23, ο/η Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios έγραψε: > >After p

Re: Laptop Shopping Questions

2006-05-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/05/06 23:57), Scarletdown wrote: > I ended up going with a Gateway MX6440 instead of the Acer, since the > specs were a little better, it uses an ATI graphics chipset instead of > SiS, it was on sale for about $800 at Best Buy, and I was able to pop a > Mepis CD into the display model at Bes

Re: dell inspiron 600M + suspend to disk

2006-05-18 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/15/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently use the 2.6.16 kernel, but the patch I use also worked with the > 2.6.15 kernel I previously used. > I use "suspend2". It is a patch that you apply to the kernel source tree. > Contrary to previous things that I have

Dell Inspiron XPS Gen2 (M170) CDROM not detected

2006-05-18 Thread Prepaid
Hi!So I've been trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron M170, and the boot CD doesn't find the CDROM drive. So what I did was I just installed debian through PXE booting and avoided that issue.I got X11 working and all and now need to use my CDROM drive, but it's obviously not detected. I am at

Re: Qemu: network connection host => guest

2006-05-18 Thread anoop aryal
On Friday 12 May 2006 16:41, Joao Lourenco wrote: > Hi, > > Yes. It is possible to have a network connection between the host and > the virtual (QEMU) machine. The way you setup the connection depends on > your host OS: Window$ or Linux. If you search the web for a while > you'll find some sugge

Re: Qemu: network connection host => guest

2006-05-18 Thread Joao Lourenco
Hi, Well... here it goes... I'm citing "by memory", but I'm confident I remember all the steps. 1 -> Get tun working. For this you have to load kernel module "tun.ko". If you have a standard kernel, probably it's already compiled and you just have to "modprobe tun" (as root). 2 -> Now, you hav

Re: Dell Inspiron XPS Gen2 (M170) CDROM not detected

2006-05-18 Thread Andreas Klein
Did you try to append "libata.atapi_enabled=1" to your boot Parameters this helped with my Dell Inspiron 6000. On Thu, 18 May 2006 12:38:19 -0400 Prepaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > So I've been trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron M170, and the boot > CD doesn't find the CDROM