Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:33:24 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:07:35 +0300 > "Ivan T. Ivanov" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:07:35 +0300 "Ivan T. Ivanov" wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze > > > > with my Intel video, so I'd like to i

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
Hi, On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 09:47 -0400, Frank wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:51 +0200 > Sven Hoexter wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg fre

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:16:59 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,04.Oct.09, 17:26:10, Frank wrote: > > > > # echo 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";' > > > # >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local echo "deb > > > # >> http://your-prefered-mirror/ squeeze >

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:49:51 +0200 Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with > > my Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Oct.09, 17:26:10, Frank wrote: > > # echo 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00local > > # echo "deb http://your-prefered-mirror/ squeeze main" > > # >> /etc/apt/sources.list aptitude update > > # aptitude install -t squeeze xorg > > Maybe I wasn't clearbut

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:49:52PM -0400, Frank wrote: Hi, > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with my > Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid, while keeping > the option > to go back to the testing version. Don't forget that you need the la

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Frank wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:18:51 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,04.Oct.09, 16:49:52, Frank wrote: >> > >> > >> > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with >> > my

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:18:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,04.Oct.09, 16:49:52, Frank wrote: > > > > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with > > my Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid

Re: Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,04.Oct.09, 16:49:52, Frank wrote: > > > I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with my > Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid, while keeping > the option > to go back to the testing version. > What is the best way to do this ? Maybe not t

Installing SId version of Xorg

2009-10-04 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Squeeze and having a lot of trouble with Xorg freeze with my Intel video, so I'd like to install the Xorg version of Sid, while keeping the option to go back to the testing version. What is the best way to do this ? Thanks - -- Fran

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 21:21 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > You can install sid directly if you use the business-card image and > select 'expert' install. You will be prompted for the distribution to > install. Of course, you need some decent connection to complete the > install, because the bus

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 April 2009 19:21:30 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,20.Apr.09, 15:59:04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > > triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to > > control the partitions is important. > > > >

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 15:59:04, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple > boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the > partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 20 April 2009 16:11:32 Sven Joachim wrote: > I would advise to have both sid and testing in sources.list, otherwise > large parts of the system may be uninstallable due to the many ongoing > transitions.  Things seem to have settled down somewhat in the last few > days, but I still have s

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
Thanks for the reply, Thorny. On Monday 20 April 2009 16:20:13 Thorny wrote: > Are you familiar enough with troubleshooting problems and do you have a > good enough understanding of how packages migrate down to deal with issues > in the unstable branch? Are you currently running "stable" or "test

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:59:04 +0100, Lisi Reisz posted: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control > the partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest

Re: Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-20 16:59 +0200, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or > triple > boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the > partitions is important. > > Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that

Installing Sid

2009-04-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am planning to install Sid on a test machine. I may set up a dual or triple boot with other distros I want to look at, so being able to control the partitions is important. Googling, and searching the Debian site, seem to suggest that the best way of going about this would be to download a d

Re: Problems installing sid. CD boot up crashes.

2004-04-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:16:21PM -0500, Brian McRae wrote: > I burned CD 1 of the 4/2/04 version of sid from ftp.fsn.hu. The debian > boot up screen comes up with the boot: prompt. ... it doesn't work ... > What am I doing wrong? You're trying to install unstable directly from an unofficial

Problems installing sid. CD boot up crashes.

2004-04-07 Thread Brian McRae
I burned CD 1 of the 4/2/04 version of sid from ftp.fsn.hu. The debian boot up screen comes up with the boot: prompt. I hit return and the boot up crashes before the debian installer is run. The following message is repeated many times: attemp to access beyone the end of device 01:00 rw=0. wa

Re: "Error Running kbd-chooser" while installing sid

2003-11-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:34:49PM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am trying to install sid on my P-IV machine. I downladed the > sid-i386-1.iso from the following link: > http://ntu.debian.org.tw/debian-unofficial/sid/sid-i386-1.iso You mean you downloaded *a* Sid ISO. Why you wasted your time do

"Error Running kbd-chooser" while installing sid

2003-11-14 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am trying to install sid on my P-IV machine. I downladed the sid-i386-1.iso from the following link: http://ntu.debian.org.tw/debian-unofficial/sid/sid-i386-1.iso When I boot this CD and give "linux bf24" (as I want ext3 support) at boot prompt, the "Choose language" menu works fine but when

Re: Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:58:53AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack > about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a > bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm > lookin

Re: Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:58:53AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with > slack about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I > did. I'm a bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest > code. So I'm lookin

Re: Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread James Kahn
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 04:58, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack > about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a > bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm > looking at sid. Sid

Installing sid from scratch

2002-05-23 Thread Walter Reed
I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm looking at sid. Sid doesn't have install disks yet, so I'm wondering what t