Re: Linux install bug

2012-07-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/07/12 07:51 AM, greens...@care4free.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to start by apologising if this is in the wrong place. I have looked, and not found a beginners/install problems place. Meanwhile I discover this glitch goes back at least to 2005. Please help me recover my faith in Debian/Linux

Re: Linux install bug

2012-07-02 Thread Lisi
On Monday 02 July 2012 12:51:53 greens...@care4free.net wrote: > Also, please, someone explain why this slightly fundamental glitch is still > present after what ... seven years or more? I have never had this problem, and have used the 6.0.5 netinstall frequently. Perhaps there is something unus

Re: Linux Install

2001-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:18:00PM -0400, Shyam Ramachandran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can I install Linux Debian in Compaq Presario Pentium II, 128 MB Ram Probably, though you're providing nowhere near sufficient information to answer the question. The level of system support you'll get depe

Re: Linux Install

1999-06-08 Thread Decklin Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded the /main directory from the stable area on the > Debian.org FTP site and burned that to a CD, less the devel section. > (This and the disks directory almost fill one CD.) This is almost always not necessary; you can download the essentail files from disks-

Re: Linux install error

1998-10-11 Thread Frank Barknecht
Shane S. hat gesagt: // Shane S. wrote: > I am trying to install debian linux on this laptop i have. > When I bootup with boot disk, i get the following error. > Parition check: > hda: > attemtp to access beyond end of device > 03:01: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 [... and so on] > And it sits there fore

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Shanta McBain
After trying everything that fdisk had to offer I used cfdisk and it did what it was supped to do. Where fdisk fell sort of the mark cfdisk didn't. I am up and running again. Installing with out a cd is a major headache. I have to down load with the windows machine, transfer the file to a disk the

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread damon
Greets, > > Fdisk can delete the logical partitions, but its a separate option > (delete > logical vs. delete primary). Try DOS's fdisk again, and delete the logical > partitions first, then delete the extended partition (DOS won't let you > delete an extended partition untill all logical

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-15 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shanta McBain wrote: > > Hi > > I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk > says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended > secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the > secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as the logica

Re: Linux install problem

1998-06-14 Thread dg
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Shanta McBain wrote: > I have a HD 350 meg Caviar 2340. I cannot change the partitions. Fdisk > says that there are two partition The dos primary and a extended > secondary. It reports that there are logical partitions on the > secondary. Cant delete the secondary partition as