I've always used Red Hat Linux, in the past. I'm trying different
distros, looking for a successor to it, for personal use and to
recommend at work, on our servers (I'm the admin).
I've never used Debian before. I thought I'd start by installing it on
my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx J750GT). Any k
Alex Malinovich wrote:
The first thing to be aware of is that Debian doesn't do nearly as much
auto-configuration for you as Red Hat. Don't expect X to 'just work'.
You'll most likely have to do some hand editing of your XF86Config file.
It might be a good idea to make a backup of your Red Hat one
I wrote:
How do I use the Sarge installer? I booted the first CD, and I got
something that appears to be very manual, when I hit return at the boot
prompt.
I think I understand now, but please correct me if I'm wrong. The 3.0
release I downloaded, is called "woody". The beta version of 3.1 is
c
I'm looking on the site, and I can't find a list of what's supported. I
can't get 3.0 to recognize any of my laptop's network cards. I have
these to choose from:
Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100)
3Com EtherLink III (3C589C)
3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card (
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Here's a link for the net-install iso. It's 110 MB. It'll do a base
install at which point you connect to the internet to fetch the rest of
the packages.
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
I downloaded and burned it. I wa
I wrote:
However, after setting up the local user
account, it claims I'm not connected to the Internet. So, I tried to
tell it to install from the cdrom, but it says it can't auto-detect a
cdrom, so I'm rather stuck, atm.
I'm an idiot. I must need coffee. :)
The cdrom issue is that I didn't have
Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
I wrote:
Still don't know why it doesn't see the card though, but will forge
ahead for he moment. :)
It does see the network card, it just isn't configuring it. Did I miss
something in the configuration to tell it to use DHCP on it?
-ste
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To UNS
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Try doing a ifdown eth0, followed by an ifup eth0. Assuming that you
have a DHCP server active on the network, you should see it request
and receive an IP. If there's any problems with it, send the output
and we'll go from there.
Ok, that gets it configured. It doesn't at boo
Alex Malinovich wrote:
You didn't mention what type of network adapter you're using. (Or if
you did I forgot. :)
You forgot. :)
Is it onboard or a PCMCIA card? If it's a PCMCIA
card the problem could be that the module isn't being loaded before
ifup gets called. If that's the case you'll probably
Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Is it onboard or a PCMCIA card? If it's a PCMCIA
card the problem could be that the module isn't being loaded before
ifup gets called. If that's the case you'll probably want to set up
hotplug to automatically configure the interf
I know this isn't exactly a laptop related question, but since that's
where I'm doing my first debian install ...
When debian boots up and goes into run level 2, does it run everything
in /etc/rcS.d before running what's in rc2.d? What's the exact boot
process for the system?
-ste
--
T
Larry Colen wrote:
I use this account for all my linux related mailing lists. All of the
lists but this one have the list name at the start of the subject:
ie.
Subject: [debian-laptop] list based subject line
I'd like to propose that this list do so as well. I can't be the only
person who would fin
I've always used Red Hat Linux, in the past. I'm trying different
distros, looking for a successor to it, for personal use and to
recommend at work, on our servers (I'm the admin).
I've never used Debian before. I thought I'd start by installing it on
my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx J750GT). Any
Alex Malinovich wrote:
The first thing to be aware of is that Debian doesn't do nearly as much
auto-configuration for you as Red Hat. Don't expect X to 'just work'.
You'll most likely have to do some hand editing of your XF86Config file.
It might be a good idea to make a backup of your Red Hat o
I wrote:
How do I use the Sarge installer? I booted the first CD, and I got
something that appears to be very manual, when I hit return at the boot
prompt.
I think I understand now, but please correct me if I'm wrong. The 3.0
release I downloaded, is called "woody". The beta version of 3.1 i
I'm looking on the site, and I can't find a list of what's supported. I
can't get 3.0 to recognize any of my laptop's network cards. I have
these to choose from:
Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100)
3Com EtherLink III (3C589C)
3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PC Card
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Here's a link for the net-install iso. It's 110 MB. It'll do a base
install at which point you connect to the internet to fetch the rest of
the packages.
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
I downloaded and burned it
I wrote:
However, after setting up the local user
account, it claims I'm not connected to the Internet. So, I tried to
tell it to install from the cdrom, but it says it can't auto-detect a
cdrom, so I'm rather stuck, atm.
I'm an idiot. I must need coffee. :)
The cdrom issue is that I didn't
Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
I wrote:
Still don't know why it doesn't see the card though, but will forge
ahead for he moment. :)
It does see the network card, it just isn't configuring it. Did I miss
something in the configuration to tell it to use DHCP on it?
-ste
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Try doing a ifdown eth0, followed by an ifup eth0. Assuming that you
have a DHCP server active on the network, you should see it request
and receive an IP. If there's any problems with it, send the output
and we'll go from there.
Ok, that gets it configured. It doesn't a
Alex Malinovich wrote:
You didn't mention what type of network adapter you're using. (Or if
you did I forgot. :)
You forgot. :)
Is it onboard or a PCMCIA card? If it's a PCMCIA
card the problem could be that the module isn't being loaded before
ifup gets called. If that's the case you'll pr
Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
Alex Malinovich wrote:
Is it onboard or a PCMCIA card? If it's a PCMCIA
card the problem could be that the module isn't being loaded before
ifup gets called. If that's the case you'll probably want to set up
hotplug to automatically configure the i
I know this isn't exactly a laptop related question, but since that's
where I'm doing my first debian install ...
When debian boots up and goes into run level 2, does it run everything
in /etc/rcS.d before running what's in rc2.d? What's the exact boot
process for the system?
-ste
Larry Colen wrote:
I use this account for all my linux related mailing lists. All of the
lists but this one have the list name at the start of the subject:
ie.
Subject: [debian-laptop] list based subject line
I'd like to propose that this list do so as well. I can't be the only
person who would
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