Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-19 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:07:26PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: > > > > Sorry Stephen, but there doesn't seem to be any such list. Were you > thinking of the PPC list? > ---end quoted text--- Thought it was MacOS and not strictly PPC. Guess not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-18 Thread Mike Hore
I wrote: On 16/09/11 10:33 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: Thanks. I had looked at that and I think I've got the video problem sorted out -- but the boot is still hanging at a later stage as I explained in my earlier post. Cheers, Mike. T

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-18 Thread Mike Hore
On 16/09/11 10:33 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: Thanks. I had looked at that and I think I've got the video problem sorted out -- but the boot is still hanging at a later stage as I explained in my earlier post. Cheers, Mike. There is a

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: > > Thanks. I had looked at that and I think I've got the video problem > sorted out -- but the boot is still hanging at a later stage as I > explained in my earlier post. > > Cheers, Mike. There is a Debian Mac list; probably get bett

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Hore
Hi Scott, On 16/09/11 15:56, Mike Hore wrote: Hi again -- Hmm... no replies. I take it then that NOBODY is running Debian on one of this year's iMacs?? Maybe I should just go away and try again in a few months? Cheers, Mike. I don't run a Mac - or I'd have posted earlier, but... it appe

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-16 Thread Miles Bader
Mike Hore writes: > Hmm... no replies. I take it then that NOBODY is running Debian on one > of this year's iMacs?? Maybe I should just go away and try again in a > few months? Hmm, remember only a fraction of debian users actually use the mailing lists... (and I suppose even some devs may not

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/09/11 15:56, Mike Hore wrote: > Hi again -- > > Hmm... no replies. I take it then that NOBODY is running Debian on one > of this year's iMacs?? Maybe I should just go away and try again in a > few months? > > Cheers, Mike. > I don't run a Mac - or I'd have posted earlier, but... it app

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-15 Thread Mike Hore
Hi again -- Hmm... no replies. I take it then that NOBODY is running Debian on one of this year's iMacs?? Maybe I should just go away and try again in a few months? Cheers, Mike. Hi all, It's been a few weeks now, so I'm wondering if there's been any progress on this. I think the rele

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Hore
Hi all, It's been a few weeks now, so I'm wondering if there's been any progress on this. I think the relevant bugs are #637284 and 627705 - neither have had any activity during these few weeks. Is everybody on holidays?? -- Mike. Hi again, I was directed to the wiki: http://wiki.debian

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMacS

2011-08-29 Thread Mike Hore
Hi again, I was directed to the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/iMacIntel Apparently this section has been updated: Update (2011/08/12) : aluminium iMac Intel 12,1 / Wheezy , see the "video" section. However this didn't work for me. Even applying the radeon.modeset=0 line in the boot parameter

Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMacS

2011-08-29 Thread Mike Hore
Sorry if this appears twice, but it seems that the way I wrote my original post it came out as a followup on an existing thread rather than a new one, which is what it was meant to be. This issue now exists as bug# 637284. If you're interested, you can see the history of our investigati

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-08-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 August 2011 10:58:21 Mike Hore wrote: > This issue now exists as bug# 637284. If you're interested, you can see > the history of our investigation at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637284 > > I'm posting this the the debian-user list, to get a wider readership and

Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

2011-08-29 Thread Mike Hore
This issue now exists as bug# 637284. If you're interested, you can see the history of our investigation at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637284 I'm posting this the the debian-user list, to get a wider readership and find if there's been anybody yet who has been able to ins

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-10 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:23:13PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: >> At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote: >> I've actually managed to track down this problem. Somehow, for some >> reason, the DHCP client Debian uses right now was telling my ISP's

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:23:13PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > >can you ping a ip address and can not ping a domain name? > >Have you considered booting a livecd and then using debootstrap as a way > >to install? > > I've actually managed to tra

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote: can you ping a ip address and can not ping a domain name? Have you considered booting a livecd and then using debootstrap as a way to install? I've actually managed to track down this problem. Somehow, for some reason, the DHCP client Debian uses right n

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:46:02PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > At 11:09 AM 3/6/2007, Chris Lale wrote: > > >Are you using the expert install ("expert" at the installer boot screen)? > > > >AFAIR, there is then an option to supply nameservers manually. I had > >to do this when I was usi

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
At 11:09 AM 3/6/2007, Chris Lale wrote: Are you using the expert install ("expert" at the installer boot screen)? AFAIR, there is then an option to supply nameservers manually. I had to do this when I was using a particular ADSL modem/router-in-a-box to connect to my ISP. The modem/router did

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread Chris Lale
John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: [...] I have tried to install sarge with the 3.1r5 "business card" netinst disc, and etch with the full netinst daily build disc from Mar. 4 '07. It detects my hardware fine, loads my modules fine, and configures with DHCP fine, but every mirror gives "Bad Mirror

Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
I apologize for pestering everyone, but I really don't want to abandon Debian for something this simple after having used it for so long. My ISP requires registration of a MAC address through an HTML interface, which I do in Windows XP. They also require initializing the network with DHCP. Whe

still can't install deb with PCMCIA NIC

2003-07-28 Thread Richard Lyons
In spite of previous help, I'm getting nowhere. I thought I had solved this by using the Linux Format coverdisk Morphix, which installed everything, recognised the NIC - all perfect. Only problem, when I installed it to the hard drive, the installer didn't set up lilo, and the system was unbo

Re: Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:40:50PM +1100, Penguin wrote: > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install > mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from > someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I http://peop

Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Penguin
I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I think... anyway I tried listing all the packages at once on the command lin

Re: Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 January 2002 9:07 am, Penguin wrote: > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install [snip] > > I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install Posting the same text twice will not

Still can't install :-(

2002-01-06 Thread Penguin
I am still having problems installing Potato. I always use `simple' install mode and not select X, so I can install the unofficial XFree 4.x debs from someone who is listed in Debian (http://people.debian.org/~someone) I think... anyway I tried listing all the packages at once on the command lin

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-02-01 Thread tschmid
>The fist thought that occurs to me is: does dselect know enough to put >files on the usr partition, or did it freeze trying to stuff 400+ megs >onto a 100 meg root partition? How does dselect know which files to put >on which partition? Or does it know? This seems like a new-user-question, so I'l

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread Fam. Engelen
>The fist thought that occurs to me is: does dselect know enough to put >files on the usr partition, or did it freeze trying to stuff 400+ megs >onto a 100 meg root partition? How does dselect know which files to put >on which partition? Or does it know? Dselect automagically puts everything where

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:10:38PM -0700, dkphoto wrote: : I have dselect installing, but it seems to be taking an extraordinarily : long time to work. About how long should the install of a 500+ meg : profile take with a 68K Mac? It's been installing just xemacs for about : an hour now, and it

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:10:38PM -0700, dkphoto wrote: > I have dselect installing, but it seems to be taking an extraordinarily > long time to work. About how long should the install of a 500+ meg > profile take with a 68K Mac? It's been installing just xemacs for about > an hour now, and it

Re: STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread dkphoto
I have dselect installing, but it seems to be taking an extraordinarily long time to work. About how long should the install of a 500+ meg profile take with a 68K Mac? It's been installing just xemacs for about an hour now, and it was working for a good two hours before that. David Kachel

STILL can't install!!! Part 2

2000-01-31 Thread dkphoto
Had to force a restart of my machine BTW, and got a message on startup that fsck could not fix my usr partition and that I would have to do it manually. I ran fsck, which seemed to deal with a lot of problems, but finally finished. Then tried to run dselect, and the machine said it couldn't find it

STILL can't install!!!

2000-01-31 Thread dkphoto
Well I spoke too soon! I finally got dselect going and actually installing files, only to come back an hour later and find the machine frozen solid. If anyone can help me determine what went wrong I would appreciate it. Background info: I have a Mac IIci with 48megs of RAM and a 700meg hard drive

Still can't install any deb's

1997-06-27 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
I recieve the following error no matter what I try to install I'm in desperate need of help my system is not configed properly Please help Dragon# dpkg -i mgetty-fax_1.1.2-1.deb (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing mgetty-fax_1.1.2-1.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-f