Re: Nothing works

2007-03-18 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:01:39AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:39:51AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: >>> By the way, the command y

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:01:39AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:39:51AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > By the way, the command you gave me to reconfigure my X resolutions > > > didn't > > > w

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:39:51AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > By the way, the command you gave me to reconfigure my X resolutions didn't > > work. I got the error: "no package xserver-xorg" or something like this. I > > didn't

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > By the way, the command you gave me to reconfigure my X resolutions didn't > work. I got the error: "no package xserver-xorg" or something like this. I > didn't find a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, but the configuration file: > XF

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Hello: > I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit > machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find > essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask > for your help one issue at a time. > The first, and m

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:01:11PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Hello: > > I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit ^^ Sarge was never officially released for amd64. So, you are using an unoffic

Re: Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teilhard Knight wrote: > Hello: > > I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit > machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find > essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have dec

Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most annoying thing is that

Nothing works

2007-03-17 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most annoying thing is that

Re: nothing works

2003-03-18 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi I bought a Gigabyte 7va-c motherboard with an amd 1800+ 3 days ago. I had setup everything and booted beautifully. After about a minutes work in linux it just froze. When i restarted, well.. it didn't PSU fan=GO MotherboardPowerLed=GO HD/POWERLED=GO SYSTEM_GO=NO-GO. I took the motherboard in an

Re: nothing works

2003-03-17 Thread Kent West
Nori Heikkinen wrote: my old computer's dead as a whole. i determined that it was either the motherboard or processor, and bought a new combo. plugged them in. turned on computer, and all is well! i let it download email for a while, transferred over some files, and went to reboot for some rea

Re: nothing works

2003-03-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 17 Mar 2003 06:24:54PM -0600, ktb insinuated: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:15:08PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > my old computer's dead as a whole. i determined that it was > > either the motherboard or processor, and bought a new combo. > > plugged them in. turned on computer, and all

Re: nothing works

2003-03-17 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:15:08PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > my old computer's dead as a whole. i determined that it was either > the motherboard or processor, and bought a new combo. plugged them > in. turned on computer, and all is well! i let it download email for > a while, transferred

nothing works

2003-03-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
my old computer's dead as a whole. i determined that it was either the motherboard or processor, and bought a new combo. plugged them in. turned on computer, and all is well! i let it download email for a while, transferred over some files, and went to reboot for some reason. it halted ... and

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread klaus imgrund
> > I did mount them,too.Something is already screwed up then. > > Real strange - I just installed mandrake and try it with the tools there. > > If that doesn't work I'll install it with the regular boot CD. > > Ah-ha! If you mounted the d/l iso files, and they were screwed up, then > it looks l

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread Donald Spoon
klaus imgrund wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:04 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Klaus Imgrund wrote: Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. Both show that

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread klaus imgrund
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:04 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. > > There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. > > I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. > > Both show that they

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. Both show that they burn 38 mb but they don't. If I burn the boot.iso instead of the bootbf2.4.iso

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
OK, way down the list I found "open a shell". The reply was "no module by that name found". What now? Cheers, Brian Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700 Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full"

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
How do I open a console when in the install? Cheers, Brian Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700 Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have w

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:43:29 +0700 Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" > install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a > "netinstall". Exact same place it stops too. I used the command > "bf24", which is supp

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Durant
I have the same problem with getting SiS 900 to work on the "full" install of the Debian (CD 1 of 7) 3 rev.1 as you have with a "netinstall". Exact same place it stops too. I used the command "bf24", which is supposed to load a kernel with SiS 900 support. Trying to install on a Fujitsu-Siemens

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. Both show that they burn 38 mb but they don't. If I burn the boot.iso instead of the bootbf2.4.iso everything is fine e

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-26 Thread Klaus Imgrund
The only other suggestion is to make the "rescue" and "root" > bf2.4 Woody boot floppies and boot from them. Once you get to the > start of the install, then you can use the CDs (if they are good) for > the install of the base system or go straight to the netinstall. I don't have a floppy driv

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: > -SNIP- < With the testing CD's it boots fine.Everything works ok there until I try to find my NIC. With every ISO I tried (bout 5) with bf-2.4 it starts to load the kernel.The screen comes up and then I get an error about wrong magic followed by the reiserfs superblocks it ca

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Klaus Imgrund
> With the testing CD's it boots fine.Everything works ok there until I > try to find my NIC. Ok - I finally figured out that there is no driver for sis900 included with the ISO - good one. So if you do a netinstall with the testing images it will not work in case somebody else runs across the sa

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:46:37 -0600 Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > -SNIP- < > > There is obviously some problem with either my reiser partitions > > although they work fine or with the cd's. > > The 'testing' cd's boot but don't recognise my NIC. > > Funny thing

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: > -SNIP- < There is obviously some problem with either my reiser partitions although they work fine or with the cd's. The 'testing' cd's boot but don't recognise my NIC. Funny thing is that a old potato cd boots just fine w/o complaining about superblocks. Klaus That is reall

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-25 Thread Klaus Imgrund
> > Exactly which "netinstall iso with bf2.4 kernel" did you download & > try? Meanwhile I downloaded all images from the debian site.Well not really from there - the ones that are mentioned there. > You mentioned the "businesscard.iso for a testing netinstall" as a > second try, and IF you

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-24 Thread Donald Spoon
Klaus Imgrund wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:51:13 -0800 "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Klaus Imgrund said: Well, I downloaded a netinstall iso with bf2.4 kernel and threw it in - kernel panic with error about reiserfs modules. - Ok try the next one Downloaded the businesscard.iso for a testin

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-24 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:51:13 -0800 "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Imgrund said: > > Well, > > > > I downloaded a netinstall iso with bf2.4 kernel and threw it in - > > kernel panic with error about reiserfs modules. > > - Ok try the next one > > Downloaded the businesscard.iso for a tes

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-24 Thread nate
Klaus Imgrund said: > Well, > > I downloaded a netinstall iso with bf2.4 kernel and threw it in - kernel > panic with error about reiserfs modules. > - Ok try the next one > Downloaded the businesscard.iso for a testing netinstall.That couldn't > find my sis900 NIC.Let alone a driver for it. it l

Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-24 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Well, I downloaded a netinstall iso with bf2.4 kernel and threw it in - kernel panic with error about reiserfs modules. - Ok try the next one Downloaded the businesscard.iso for a testing netinstall.That couldn't find my sis900 NIC.Let alone a driver for it. - Next chance Downloaded the testing sa

Re: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-13 Thread Dean
Dean - Original Message - From: "Len Cheatham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:29 PM Subject: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works > I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no avail: > ATTEMPT #1: >

Re: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-12 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001, Len Cheatham wrote: Hi Len, I couldn't really follow your question, as I couldn't easily read your html-formatted email (for the future, you're certain to get more responses with text-only email, with line breaks at ~70 chars). But I'm going to give it a shot anyway. I'

Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-12 Thread Len Cheatham
I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no avail: ATTEMPT #1: After downloading the CD from the Debian site, I burned a CD for Disk #1 and placed that in the CD drive. I booted the computer, and after going through all the install screens, Debian said that it could