Re: Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2023-08-28 Thread nazli dollah
Thank you for your help.

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> They are not supported by the "Debian installer kernel". >> They have to be installed *seperately*. > > This is neither true, nor desired.

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:10:31 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: ... > Which wireless is fully supported by debian and free software? I don't > think there is *any* on the planet that works without proprietary, > binary non-free code. Yes, there is. Many Atheros devices are fully supported by the

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b30e4ee.7010...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >If there are >still any non-free drivers present in debian's kernel, those will be >removed. Some/many non-free, non-GPL or similar drivers are available >for Debian, but they are not released by Debian. They are not part

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM: >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > >> All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The >> point in this thread is

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 12:51:46 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Why are you > trying to beat me over the head with a statement I did not make? And why are you so determined to rubbish the OP, who gave very valid reasons for eschewing cabled ethernet? Why does it, in any way, shape or form, harm you

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 12/22/2009 4:10 AM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > All this might be valid statistics, but they are beyond the point. The > point in this thread is the question from a particular OP who does *not* > have access to a wired ne

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > >> Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless. > > Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have > both. I'd venture to guess th

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless. Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have both. I'd venture to guess that the few that only have wireless are the tiny netbooks. Actually, just chec

RE: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:s...@hardwarefreak.com] > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:38 AM > > Your scenario is bogus, because all semi-modern PCs have wired ethernet. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! Well, my laptop has a broken Ethernet port. I could go and spend money on a USB Ethernet device, b

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Stan Hoeppner on 2009-12-20 15:35:26: > Local media installs are for pussies, or masochists. ;) Or those lacking a decent network connection from where the machine will primarily be used. :) Blessed Solstice. -- _ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against ( )

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Tom H
> Any PC, desktop or laptop (or server), built in the last 6+ years has built-in > wired ethernet. (If yours don't have it, you went _way_ out of your way to > find > machines without it) So, in your scenario, instead of throwing your hands up > crying "I can't net install because the wireless car

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Consultores1
El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 15:29 +0100, Klistvud escribió: > Dne, 21. 12. 2009 13:38:01 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > > > while at the same > > > time wireless is the only connectivity available at your > > > location/work/home. > > Being a non-native English speaker, I may have made myself > uns

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Consultores1
El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 12:45 +0100, Klistvud escribió: > Dne, 20. 12. 2009 22:35:26 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > > > > > To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why > > anyone would > > install any Linux distro from local media these days. > > For example, if you hav

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 12. 2009 13:38:01 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > while at the same > time wireless is the only connectivity available at your > location/work/home. Being a non-native English speaker, I may have made myself unsufficiently clear: my scenario is real-life, and by no means "bogus". I

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Klistvud put forth on 12/21/2009 5:45 AM: > For example, if you have an unsupported wireless card, while at the same > time wireless is the only connectivity available at your > location/work/home. It's my situation, precisely: I have no less than > TWO unsupported wifi cards on (both) my computer

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 12. 2009 22:35:26 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would install any Linux distro from local media these days. For example, if you have an unsupported wireless card, while at the same time wireless is the only

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Justin The Cynical
Rick Thomas wrote: The Lenny "businesscard" iso at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso is only 36 MBytes. It contains everything you need to start the installation. It will dynamically download all the other packages you need for

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rick Thomas put forth on 12/20/2009 4:10 PM: > Stan's suggestion is correct, in spite of the way he chose to state it > (let's assume he was being humorous...) Humor was my intent. I guess this is why I'm a computer geek instead of a stand up comic. ;) -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 06:12:29PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:35:26PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > [..] > > > To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why > > anyone would install any Linux distro from local media these days. By > > the time the

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:35:26PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [..] > To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why > anyone would install any Linux distro from local media these days. By > the time the media hits the shelves, there are hundreds of security > updates you have

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 20, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Cecil Knutson put forth on 12/20/2009 1:47 PM: Hello, Osamu, The system is connected to a home DSL network. Just do a pure net install and be done with it already. Hi Cecil, Stan's suggestion is correct, in spite of the way he chos

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Cecil Knutson put forth on 12/20/2009 1:47 PM: > Hello, Osamu, > The system is connected to a home DSL network. I did not try to > download any > packages, but that doesn't mean the install program didn't. I was using the > four-DVDs of the standard Etch distribution. It does make sense

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Cecil Knutson
Hello, Osamu, The system is connected to a home DSL network. I did not try to download any packages, but that doesn't mean the install program didn't. I was using the four-DVDs of the standard Etch distribution. It does make sense that the install would hang if it tried to get files

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-20 10:11 +0100, Kevin Ross wrote: > Etch isn't obsolete, it's "oldstable". It still has security updates. Which will stop in two months. Why bother installing it when you have to upgrade to Lenny soon anyway? > It won't be obsolete until Squeeze is released. Wrong, the support for

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Ross
Kevin Ross wrote: Only Woody and older are on there. And Sarge. Forgot about Sarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Ross
Osamu Aoki wrote: Etch is obsoleted distribution. Unless you have specific reason, please use current release: lenny. http://www.debian.org/distrib/ I have no idea what is hapening on your system. Are you connected to network and tried to download packages? URL for archive has changed so old

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:09:46PM -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: > Dear List, > I just tried to install Debian 4.0r4a-i386 (Etch) on a Dell Dimension > 8400, > Pentium 4/3.oGHz, 4GB RAM, using two different sets of DVDs. Pretty powerful one. > With either set > of DVDs, the install

Debian Etch Install

2009-12-19 Thread Cecil Knutson
Dear List, I just tried to install Debian 4.0r4a-i386 (Etch) on a Dell Dimension 8400, Pentium 4/3.oGHz, 4GB RAM, using two different sets of DVDs. With either set of DVDs, the install routine would hang just after the Tasksel dialog box asking to choose the software to install. I tri

ssh kvm Etch install

2008-12-04 Thread plegal
Hello, My goal is to install a Etch virtual machine on a Lenny host. I've a ssh connexion to Lenny (no X) and when I start with the following command : kvm -curses -serial file:serial.log -hda vdisk.img -cdrom iso/debian-40r5-i386-netinst.iso -m 512 -boot d I've a nice black screen and nothing h

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:57:39PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 11:33 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Pa

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick Zaloum
On Jan 17, 2008 11:33 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: > >> > >>> Hello! > >>> I am planning on installing a

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to >>> use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 arr

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: Hello! I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During the install I know I can create md RAID devices from the partition table

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: > Hello! > I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to > use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During the install I know I > can create md RAID devices from the partition tables I set up > identically on

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Patrick Zaloum wrote: Hello! I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During the install I know I can create md RAID devices from the partition tables I set up identically on the 3 disks, but is there

Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick Zaloum
Hello! I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During the install I know I can create md RAID devices from the partition tables I set up identically on the 3 disks, but is there a more attractive way to set up the array so th

Debian Etch install bugzilla

2007-12-11 Thread rockymaxsource
Hey, I'm trying to install bugzilla on my old machine which runs Debian etch. Aptitude install bugzilla gave me the below error code: ---Error begin dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password /var/lib/dpkg/info/bugzilla.postinst: line 107: /etc/

Re: xconfig for Dell LCD's during etch install

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:37:15PM +1200, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > Is the Xconfig* file in X11, or whatever Xorg (?) uses, > correctly setup during the install of Debian 4.0r1 on a Dell 3000 box > that has a LCD display ? debian now uses xorg. the config file is /etc/X11/xorg.c

xconfig for Dell LCD's during etch install

2007-09-25 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Is the Xconfig* file in X11, or whatever Xorg (?) uses, correctly setup during the install of Debian 4.0r1 on a Dell 3000 box that has a LCD display ? I ask because Debian 3.1 failed to detect the characteristics of said LCD displays causing some extra running around to find o

Re: new Etch install fails to boot [SOLVED]

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Kleene
This problem has been solved, as least in a practical sense. Repeated tries to install Etch had resulted in the boot failing as soon as grub was called. Attempts to build a system with lilo also failed. The motherboard (Abit BX133 440BX) has four IDE connectors, allowing 8 drives in total. My h

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:05:06AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:21:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu replied: > > IIRC your /boot partition was pr

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/01/2007 07:23 AM, Steve Kleene wrote: The motherboard (Abit BX133 440BX) has four IDE connectors allowing 8 drives in total. hda-hdd have a speed of 33 MB/s max. hde-hdh have a speed of 66 MB/s max. So I have always had the two hard drives connected to hde and hdf. There are no other

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:45:23 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually > boot properly. Thanks. I'll definitely try this, but probably won't have time until tomorrow. > As for the grub-disk, if you mount it you should see a default m

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually boot properly. 1. Connect your drives to /dev/hda and /dev/hdc, set the

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:31:09 -0400, I wrote: >> Still, I verified that /etc/lilo.conf was there, and there were no grub >> files anywhere under /target (including under /boot). I finished the >> installation anyway, and found it totally bizarre when a reboot produced >> the same output as before,

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:21:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu replied: > IIRC your /boot partition was pretty big. Would it be very complicated > to make it something like a few hundred megs (

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/31/2007 08:31 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: [...] Still, I verified that /etc/lilo.conf was there, and there were no grub files anywhere under /target (including under /boot). I finished the installation anyway, and found it totally bizarre when a reboot produced the same output as b

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:31:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > In case it's relevant, here's how fdisk showed the filesys in rescue mode: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hde1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde2

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] I've tried the remaining suggestions without luck and am now royally confused. 1. I installed the grub-disk package and ran the following: dd if=grub-0.97-i486-pc.ext2fs of=

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/30/2007 09:19 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turnin

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > [... stuff about trying grub and various partition options] > > I have not yet tried the suggestio

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off Power Management. I've tried

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:30:41 +, Robert Cates wrote: > ... I then re-installed Etch (from scratch) with still the same > problem, until I decided to turn off (disable)

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Cates
x27;t already found a solution. Robert From: Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: new Etch install fails to boot Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:18:27 +0100 On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:36 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Steve, &

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:36 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Steve, > > Have you tried booting with a noapic option? Older machines > > sometime require that; Mine does, and it's a similar age to yours. > I haven't tried this, but I'll look into this and the other > suggesti

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:51 +0100, Brad Rogers replied: > Have you tried booting with a noapic option? Older machines sometime > require that; Mine does, a

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:43:26 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Steve, > I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an > install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, > this is as far as it gets: Have you tried booting with a noapic option

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:35:19 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [sent several helpful discussions on how to get around the lba problem with grub]. Thanks very much. It make take me a few days to try these, but in any case I'll report on the outcomes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:24:08AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied: > >

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:28:04PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > If you can, try to get the boot files placed before the 1024th cylinder > boundary. Sometimes this is at 0.5GB, 2.1GB or 8GB. Try a partition > layout like so: > > /boot (primary #1, 2.1GB) > / (primary #2, 37.8GB) > swap (logical #5

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:19:40 -0400, From: Douglas Allan Tutty replied: > What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to > install grub

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/29/2007 04:43 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it gets: Verifying DMI Pool Data .. GRUB Loading stage1.5. Read It may or may not be re

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] What happens if you reboot the installer in rescue mode and tell it to install grub again? Does the box have a floppy and do you have a grub-disk (I've neve

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Kleene
[I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:56:04 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself. > This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR > viruses. ...

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, Sometimes older bios has a virus protection enabled in the bios itself. This does not allow anything to be written to the MBR to protect MBR viruses. I have faced this problem whereby the MBR gets cooked and the GRUB does not get written properly. Looking at your information it looks like gr

new Etch install fails to boot

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Kleene
I just made a fresh Etch Netinst CD and successfully completed an install on a PC that I bought six years ago. When I try to boot, this is as far as it gets: Verifying DMI Pool Data .. GRUB Loading stage1.5. Read It may or may not be relevant to mention an issue I had in the past w

Re: Etch install

2007-05-08 Thread Baptiste Carvello
Andrew M.A. Cater a écrit : > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer >> and am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was >> helpful but no way. When I po

Re: Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and > am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was > helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a

Re: Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! Hi Bob, > > I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and > am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was > helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appear

Etch install

2007-05-07 Thread bobsetch
Hello! I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a gnome desktop with some games but I have no idea how to get a word processor

Re: Etch install hangs at tasksel configuration

2007-04-21 Thread Jason Terk
Hi, I'm trying to install Etch and everything goes fine until it tries to install tasksel. It then gets to "configuring tasksel" and never finishes. This happens with the net-install, the business-card installer and the official CD install. Does anyone have any ideas how I might fix this? Thanks,

Etch install hangs at tasksel configuration

2007-04-19 Thread Jason Terk
Hi, I'm trying to install Etch and everything goes fine until it tries to install tasksel. It then gets to "configuring tasksel" and never finishes. Does anyone have any ideas how I might fix this? Thanks, Jason Terk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Andrei Popescu wrote: > avahi-daemon recommends libnss-mdns > libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf > > The link is pretty weak, but it still gets installed on a lot of > systems, because aptitude installs recommends by default. Although thankfully recommends are ignored on initial installs. The recom

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi Andrei, >>it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the >>answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little >>about zeroconf but it seems to me that it

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the > > > s

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP > > address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some > > infor

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 > Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP >>address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some >>information - thanks...(maybe this is related to I

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:45 -0500 Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, everything looks and works normally excecpt for the strange IP > address. Just hoping someone can explain or provide a link to some > information - thanks...(maybe this is related to IPv6 ?) These addresses are usu

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 26.01.2007 at 11:08 -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:20:F3:7A:03 > inet addr:169.254.128.152 Bcast:169.254.255.255 > Mask:255.255.0.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::213:20ff:fef3:7a03/64 Scope:L

New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Just installed Etch from the RC1 net install CD. Did standard install, updated everything to the latest etch packages from the Debian repository, and then installed xorg + kde. Everything *works fine*, but something is different about the network configuration that I don't understand, and hoping so

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:05:36PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothin

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Thu Jan 18 14:05:12 2007, Kevin Ross wrote: > C

Re: Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-18 Thread Kevin Ross
> On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. > > On Mon Jan 15 15:13:59 2007, Matt Za

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Mon Jan 15 15:13:59 2007, Matt Zagrabelny wr

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 13:01 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > i386-netinst CD. The install completed and I have several problems to look > into. Here's the first. > > I am booting into runlevel 3, which I set to bring up a conso

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:40, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at a

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the >> testing- i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual >> virtual terminals 1-6 (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at >> all happens. On Mon Jan 15 14:05:09 2007 Andrei wrote: >

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:45:09 -0500 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the > >> testing- i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual > >> virtual terminals 1-6 (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1).

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Mon Jan 15 13:15:38 2007, Andrei wrote: > Wh

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: >> I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- >> i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 >> (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Mon Jan 15 13:15:29 2007, Thierry Chatelet wr

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:01:49 -0500 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > i386-netinst CD. The install completed and I have several problems > to look into. Here's the first. > > I am booting into runlevel 3, which I se

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, Steve Kleene wrote: > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > i386-netinst CD. The install completed and I have several problems to look > into. Here's the first. > > I am booting into runlevel 3, which I set to bring up a console

no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-15 Thread Steve Kleene
I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- i386-netinst CD. The install completed and I have several problems to look into. Here's the first. I am booting into runlevel 3, which I set to bring up a console instead of gnome. This works, but I cannot bring up the usual

Etch-install, monitor says: "no support" (solved)

2006-12-21 Thread jasper
Hello List. Two days ago I started a floppy-net-install of Etch. All went well exept that the lcd-monitor only showed "no support". Apparently X itself started up fine. Ctrl-Alt-F1 brought me in a console where I could peek in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log. After a long time I found

Re: Asus K8N-DL etch install notes

2006-10-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark T.B. Carroll wrote: I don't have the time right now to put together a full formal report, but I thought I should at least mention my experience installing the etch beta3 amd64 netinst onto a system with an Asus K8N-DL motherboard and a SATA HDD. At initial glance, everything seems to have go

Asus K8N-DL etch install notes

2006-10-23 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
I don't have the time right now to put together a full formal report, but I thought I should at least mention my experience installing the etch beta3 amd64 netinst onto a system with an Asus K8N-DL motherboard and a SATA HDD. At initial glance, everything seems to have gone rather well. The main t

Re: Etch install

2006-09-30 Thread Jesus Arocho
So, here is what I found: Etch installer, all except expert24, will try to load a floppy module when searching for network hardware. Expert24 will present two options, a network module and the floppy module. With dhcp and with setting up the network parameters manually, the system fails to con

Etch install

2006-09-28 Thread Jesus Arocho
I am currently using kubuntu and want to test the etch dist. My board is a K8M Neo-V from MSI. I downloaded the netinst iso. The install process fails to setup the mobo LAN card. I disabled the internal LAN and installed a Linksys card with same results. On both occasions I tried a manual

Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

2006-09-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still need exim for programs that send reports by email, most notably > reportbug. Actually reportbug can do just fine without any MTA or smarthost. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einst

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