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.
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
Apologies in advance for the length of this post. Those who
don't have a hearty appetite for sharing other's problems
should bail out now :-(.
A few weeks back, I bugged you all for the first time, while
preparing for where I am now. Back then, I was trying to
install a debian sid 2.6.4 kernel on a
on't be able to use Lindows Live in order to sense the disk which
would then be at hda.
It's clever, but I'm either missing something even cleverer, or I
think it won't solve my problem...
Thanks for the response!
Andrew Porter wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 20:46, Hadar Ped
I'm hoping to keep this note shorter than the last one, but if I
provide even a little detail on my troubles (and now partial
successes), I fear it will quickly grow longer than the last post.
Worst, I don't know if anyone cares, so I'll try and keep it succinct,
and I'll post more if others ar
Bill, I'm _far_ from an expert, and I'm sure you'll get better
(meaning more correct) answers from others. However, I have a number
of WiFi cards, including two different SMC models (one is an 802.11a
card, and the other is an A/B card). I can get all of the SMC cards to
work when I build the "
I am running a Knoppix 3.3 kernel (2.4.24-xfs), with most everything
else upgraded to sid/unstable current as of a few weeks ago.
Everything is running really well.
Here's the one exception. I have a Treo 600 with CDMA service from
Sprint. Before I got this laptop running Debian, I was running W
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 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
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.
S
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
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
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
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
Apologies in advance for the length of this post. Those who
don't have a hearty appetite for sharing other's problems
should bail out now :-(.
A few weeks back, I bugged you all for the first time, while
preparing for where I am now. Back then, I was trying to
install a debian sid 2.6.4 kernel on
on't be able to use Lindows Live in order to sense the disk which
would then be at hda.
It's clever, but I'm either missing something even cleverer, or I
think it won't solve my problem...
Thanks for the response!
Andrew Porter wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 20:46, Hadar Pedh
I'm hoping to keep this note shorter than the last one, but if I
provide even a little detail on my troubles (and now partial
successes), I fear it will quickly grow longer than the last post.
Worst, I don't know if anyone cares, so I'll try and keep it succinct,
and I'll post more if others ar
Bill, I'm _far_ from an expert, and I'm sure you'll get better
(meaning more correct) answers from others. However, I have a number
of WiFi cards, including two different SMC models (one is an 802.11a
card, and the other is an A/B card). I can get all of the SMC cards to
work when I build the "
I am running a Knoppix 3.3 kernel (2.4.24-xfs), with most everything
else upgraded to sid/unstable current as of a few weeks ago.
Everything is running really well.
Here's the one exception. I have a Treo 600 with CDMA service from
Sprint. Before I got this laptop running Debian, I was running
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