Re: Can't use floppy images

2002-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:16:37PM -0500, Bert Knabe wrote: > I want to install Debian (or any) Linux onto a Motorola Starmax. I > downloaded the ISO images and the floppy disk images. I burned the ISO > images to CD's, but I can only read the boot floppy image. The others > aren't recognized by

Re: Gnome 2.0 rc1 -- experimental

2002-06-14 Thread Luis M
Thanks a lot! I have 'testing' as my main source... now i now what you meant. Maybe I should backup my computer before messing it up badly :-) Original Message Follows From: K Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Luis M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Gnome 2.0 rc1 -- experimental Date: Fri

Can't use floppy images

2002-06-14 Thread Bert Knabe
I want to install Debian (or any) Linux onto a Motorola Starmax. I downloaded the ISO images and the floppy disk images. I burned the ISO images to CD's, but I can only read the boot floppy image. The others aren't recognized by Disk Copy in OS 9 or OS X. How do I access the root and driver ima

Re: X getting close (was X won't start)

2002-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:45:10PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: > I was able to squeeze out a second dselect update to woody which > seemed to install alot more. But still having trouble with video > settings. > > Been fiddling around with XFree86Config-4 but can't seem to get the > right comb

Re: X won't start

2002-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:16:13PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: > I got > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or > directory > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot > execute: No such file or directory giving up. > xinit: No such file o

Re: Gnome 2.0 rc1 -- experimental

2002-06-14 Thread Luis M
yes, I tried that (apt-get libgnome2... ) but I got complaints that some stuff was mentioned but wasn't downloaded apt-get install libgnome2-0 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libgnome2-0 has no available version, but exists in the database. This typi

Re: Gnome 2.0 rc1 -- experimental

2002-06-14 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 01:06, Luis M wrote: > > Read that the experimental packages for Gnome2 are available for Debian ( > add to source.list: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental > main ). > > Has anybody tried them? What's the story? I'm burning for typing 'apt-get' > and

Re: X troubles

2002-06-14 Thread mijio
Venerdì, Giugno 14, 2002, alle 11:00 PM, Branden Robinson ha scritto: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:12:36PM +0200, Mij wrote: You didn't install the fonts. Uh, what a stupid miss! :) I forgot them, and I was wondering why X didn't work thinking about something completely different. The clue t

Gnome 2.0 rc1 -- experimental

2002-06-14 Thread Luis M
Read that the experimental packages for Gnome2 are available for Debian ( add to source.list: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main ). Has anybody tried them? What's the story? I'm burning for typing 'apt-get' and start installing... but, I'm breathing deeply for 100s

X getting close (was X won't start)

2002-06-14 Thread Marc Stergionis
I was able to squeeze out a second dselect update to woody which seemed to install alot more. But still having trouble with video settings. Been fiddling around with XFree86Config-4 but can't seem to get the right combination. my Device identifier is "Generic Video Card" Driver "ati" Option

Re: X won't start

2002-06-14 Thread Marc Stergionis
At sometime around 14:23:46 -0400 on 6/14/02, Josh Huber wrote thus: Marc Stergionis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OR is there a way to get apt-get or dselect to force a firewall-password prompt? Oh! You're using an http-proxy? I'm sorry, perhaps I missed that fact from the start of the th

Re: X troubles

2002-06-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:12:36PM +0200, Mij wrote: > Hi > > Finally I compiled XFree86 4.2 (official sources). > Using this XF86Config-4 file (thanks to Marc Menem), the radeon module > gives errors. > Starting startx, that's what i get. > Does anyone know a solution? You didn't install the fo

X troubles

2002-06-14 Thread Mij
Hi Finally I compiled XFree86 4.2 (official sources). Using this XF86Config-4 file (thanks to Marc Menem), the radeon module gives errors. Starting startx, that's what i get. Does anyone know a solution? bye XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor rele

Re: X won't start

2002-06-14 Thread Josh Huber
Marc Stergionis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OR is there a way to get apt-get or dselect to force a > firewall-password prompt? Oh! You're using an http-proxy? I'm sorry, perhaps I missed that fact from the start of the thread. You'll need to setup http proxy settings. In /etc/apt/apt.conf y

Re: Installing other Packages

2002-06-14 Thread Peter Downs
> That's how the whole problem arose. For a long long time, testing has > been pointed at woody. Real Soon Now(tm), stable will be pointed at > woody instead. > > So, if you change your sources.list to woody, you will be pointed to > testing now and stable after the switch (always woody). If you

Re: X won't start

2002-06-14 Thread Marc Stergionis
At sometime around 6:55 PM -0700 on 6/13/02, Chris Tillman wrote thus: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:02:16PM -0600, Marc Stergionis wrote: Sometime around 11:01 PM +0200 on 6/13/02, H?vard Skinnemoen wrote thus: The uncommented urls, therefore, that resulted in the above messages are: deb http:

Re: X won't start

2002-06-14 Thread Josh Huber
Marc Stergionis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Failed to fetch > http://us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/woody/non-US/main/binary-powerpc/Packages >Something wicked happend resolving 'us.debian.org/http' > > And then it also repeated from my previous attempts > > Couldn't stat source package l

Re: xfree86 with nvidia card, ppc woody

2002-06-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:28:59PM -0500, Scott Royston wrote: > Has anybody gotten xfree up and running with an nvidia card, with the > latest ppc woody version? I tried a week ago with the then-current XFree86 CVS tree. I got the X stuff built and installed, and it actually did run. However,