Keyboard locale

Hi all Am having a small problem with keyboard locales - when I did an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, my keyboard locale went back to the US keyboard layout, while I can change it back to the UK keyboard layout temporarily in the terminal windows, but it doesn't change for X server, and af

G550 and 3D acceleration

Hello all Does anyone know how to enable 3D acceleration / Open GL for my Matrox G550 AGP using Debian? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

Hello, Sure. Make sure that whatever kernel you're using has support built for it, load the module, and start up X. Make sure you're loading the dri module. Strange - as I've got 2 graphics cards and 3 monitors, an el cheapo TNT2 and the G550. The desktop "on" the TNT2 shows OpenGL application

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

To Aaron, Marc and Bill, Marc - here's the Quake 3 error on the G550: Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem But works fine on the TNT2 Bill, Fair enough, but it doesn't work on both heads, not just one. Aaron; How do I check if its compiled in the kernel? I think it seems

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

Hello Marc, > Don't know a thing about Quake... Quake puts me to sleep. Can't see > it as anything but a good thing that it doesn't work for you. Heh... was using it as an example OpenGL - that was before someone told me about glxgears. > Ewww... framebuffer. Shoot immediately with extreme

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

Hello Roberto; > nForce2 GART support is in 2.4.22 and newer kernels. The nVidia > drivers have been modified (via a patch) to compile against 2.5.x and > 2.6.x kernels. If you want I can email you the patch, or you can > Goolge for it, or search the threads at nforcershq.com. Aha. Got a bit co

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

Hello all Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: desire:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extr

SSH update problem?

Hello all I note that I'm using SSH version 3.6.1p2 but I note there's version 3.7.1 out - how do I update it to that? I downloaded 3.7.1, compiled and installed it, while doing a "ssh -V" shows 3.7.1, doing an "/etc/sbin/sshd -v" shows version 3.6.1. How do I update the server properly? Or

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

Marc, > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. desire:~# apt-get remove --purge fireflies Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

Hello Roberto again; Have rebooted and sorted out PC regarding to the new kernel - it loads the AGPGART module and detects the G550 card no problem. Still OpenGL doesn't work on both heads of the G550, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual [EMA

Ugly font problem

Hello all I'm having problems with ugly fonts - how do I fix it? An example is shown in the below URL: http://willow.dyndns.org/englishdude/help/openoffice.jpg Cheers - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Random crashing - related to tri video card?

Added a new TNT2 Model 64 video card in my PC along with my AGP Geforce3 and PCI TNT2 Model 64 making a total of 3 GFX cards. Computer was running okay until around 10 mins ago, when it crashed. Rebooted, LILO gave a strange error message. Rebooted, the kernel stopped loading halfway. Reboo

GDM problem

Hello all Started up my PC and X seemed to have started up twice, then I got a message saying "You seem to have already a X server running on :0, should I try starting up in that window or should I not do this?" and I see there's 2 or 3 instances of X running so I kill them all. But GDM won't

Checking what's installed

Hello all Am installing Debian on a 486 laptop, and because I want to trim down the installation as much as possible, how do I view a list of what's installed by apt-get on the laptop? DSelect is useless as it marks some stuff that hasn't been installed as to be installed. Thanks very much fo

Re: Checking what's installed

You are quite right, and I apologise for being arrogrant and ignorant. Thanks very much to everyone who helped me with my query. Cheers - Piers Quoting Charles-Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I hope the comment 'dselect is useless' is just an unfortunate use of > words used when you were a litt

Stripped down versions of software

Hi all I'm installing debian on a 486 laptop, and want to use it for X, IRC, www and email, so which window manager is best to use for the 100MHz laptop with 20mb RAM, and which IRC, WWW and email clients would also be good to use here? Thanks very much for your help in advance Cheers - Piers

Securing networks

Hello all Am going to move house soon, and want to re-setup my network again, as I want to install debian on the network server which is currently RedHat (DHCP, DNS, proxy etc). But I'm quite worried about security, and want to know the best ways to find out how to secure the network. I've a

Re: Stripped down versions of software

Hello, First of all, google for what type of memory your laptop can take and how much it can take, then hit ebay. Trust me - X is greedy. If you can get 64M or 96M you'll be happier then with 16M. Unfortunately, the laptop can only take 20Mb - 4Mb onboard, 16Mb added on - there are 8Mb version

Re: Securing networks

Hello Bret, What threats are you trying to protect against? That decides what you need to take care of. Not quite sure - hackers and the like? My point is that, like in the Window$ world, simply saying "put on a firewall, and an anti-virus program and you're done. And keep it up to date" doesn'

Logging into X remotely

Hello all Is it possible at all for X on a computer to log in another computer remotely? I.e. one computer has XDM and WMaker on it, but without an XFree86 server, another computer has a XFree86 server, the computer with WMaker on, logs on to the XFree86 and shows the XDM login dialog box, an

Re: Securing networks

Hello, If you are really interested in getting security and having some functionality hosted yourself (mail/web) then I would strongly recommend you consider a DMZ for your hosting. This can be done a number of ways. But if you can spare an extra machine, this would be pretty good and save yo

Re: Logging into X remotely

0 Aug 2003 04:06:39 -0700 Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:42:09 +0100 Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible at all for X on a computer to log in another computer remotely? Yes. Look into XDMCP. Another option would be VNC. Not with the parameters he specified.

Internet sharing and security

Hi all Currently, I've got the following hardware: 1) Email/ftp/dns/proxy/web/dhcp/irc server 2) Linksys 3 in 1 hardware router/Wireless AP/switch 3) 2 laptops with WLAN cards 4) Spare PC 5) Spare 486 6) Rest of the network So I've got 3 options to share out my Internet access to my internal net

Gnome2.2 install problem

Hi all Have just set up my new PC with Debian, changed the apt-get sources list but I'm having an annoying Gnome2.2 apt problem, and am not quite sure how to fix this. I run: apt-get install gnome and get the following error message: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Some

USB and PCMCIA card readers

Hello all I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to get those to work on my linux laptop? I'm not fairly sure what is there to need to know to solve the problem, the laptop's a fairly ancient on

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

da1 is not a valid block device" Trying "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/smartmedia" gets the same results. Any ideas? Cheers - Piers Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >>Hello all >> >>I have 2 card readers - an Sa

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

Repeated it many times, still doesn't work :/ Cheers - Piers Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Fantastic thanks so very much for your help Bret and Roberto - much helpful! Have recompiled the kernel with SCSI support, SCSI disk support, USB m

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

Hi Roberto Module SizeUsed by Not tainted sd_mod 10092 0 (autoclean) (unused) prism2_cs 57040 1 p80211 13048 1 [prism2_cs] usb-storage 21944 0 (unused) scsi_mod53548 1 [sd_mod usb-storage] Cheers - Piers Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Piers

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

Hello Bret, Also, is the Smart Media card you're trying to read formatted ("is there gas in the tank?")? Heh! Yeah its formatted no worries - after all, I have used it in Win2k no problems. Followed your instructions, recompiled kernel with Jumpshot support built in, and installed hotplug manager,

ping script howto please

Hello, As my router keep dropping connections to my modem, I need to find out why it is doing that, still not sure, so have decided to write a ping script to see if it prevents the connection dropping, but as I haven't really written a script before, how do I find out how to: Ping the nearest

Window sizing on Windowmaker

Hello all, Have used windowmaker a lot for quite a while on my work and home computers, but one thing really bugs me is that only a few certain window, when opened, is sized in crazy sizes. For example, if I open an email in Thunderbird, the window takes up the full width but only 1cm or so hi

Re: insmod.old/lsmod.old etc probs

e-ant-1.6.1/bin deaf-pc15:~# which lsmod /usr/local/bin/lsmod deaf-pc15:~# Thanks very much for your help again Cheers - Piers Bill Marcum wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:01:41AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Uninstalled module-init-tools, and modutils was already installed, but still doesn't f

OT: Faulty laptop wanted

Hello all, Do someone have a laptop with a broken screen but working base unit with a built in network card (i.e. not a PCMCIA network card) lying around that I can buy off you? Need a low power firewall box. Thanks! Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

Hello all, Have had lots of probs with this laptop and decided just to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Debian (for the first time ever - oh the shame) even tho all probs would be fixable - but I needed a working laptop. Anyway it's all working but KDE feels very slow, and looked up the CPU

Re: Linux reports incorrect CPU speed

+0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have had lots of probs with this laptop and decided just to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Debian (for the first time ever - oh the shame) even tho all probs would be fixable - but I needed a working laptop. Anyway it's all working but KDE feels very

Mirroring testing questions

Hello all, Am seriously considering mirroring testing for myself (faster updates, installs etc due to having several computers) but due to only having a 512k download ADSL, can't share it out, and want to check if the bandwidth is good enough. How much update (as in size) on average occurs eac

Compiling kernel on a different computer

Hello all, I've got an ancient 486 which needs its kernel recompiled, but it is extremely slow, and the hard drive isn't big enough - and I think it's possible to recompile the kernel on my main PC and transfer the kernel and modules over - how to do this? Thanks very much for your help in adv

GDM problem

Hello all Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on both of my monitors and the pointer is the black cross. Exiting GDM and d

GDM Problem

Hello all Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on both of my monitors and the pointer is the black cross. Exiting GDM and d

GDM Problem

Hello all Changed my apt sources to get the testing packages, did an apt-get update then apt-get upgrade, and now GDM won't work properly - when the PC boots up and loads GDM, I just see the default grey/white screens on both of my monitors and the pointer is the black cross. Exiting GDM and disab

tar/NFS problem

Hello Bascially, I've got 2 computers, one which is my main PC (named desire), and the other is a server (named destiny). I'd like the server to backup the /home/piers directory from the main PC. The server is accessing the main PC by NFS and desire:/home is moutned on destiny:/home/desire.

Re: tar/NFS problem

Florian, You are completely correct, and I totally agree, but the issue here is that the hard drive in Destiny is 12Gb, and the backup is around 6GB and so there isn't room for 2 backups. Interestingly, when I tried to tar the files on the main PC (Desire) and then copy it over via NFS, I alwa

Re: tar/NFS problem

Great! Seems to be working Cheers! Piers Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:24:45AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > >>Bascially, I've got 2 computers, one which is my main PC (named desire), >>and the other is a server (named destiny). I'd lik

Re: tar/NFS problem

Furthering the subject... Is it possible to get the crontab to email me each time the job succeeds/fails or is it better to write a shell script and get crontab to execute the script? Cheers - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Keyboard map probs

Hello all, Did an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and my keyboard settings has been reverted to the US map (again!) and while I can use "loadkeys uk" and "setxkbmap gb" to get the UK keyboard back on X and console - but I can't remember how to make the changes permament? Rebooting reverts t

Re: Keyboard map probs

ks very much for your help so far! Cheers - Piers Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:10:09 +0200, Piers Kittel escreveu: The XF86Config file does contain enteries for the UK keyboard yet I need to run setxkbmap to change it to the UK keyboard? Please check

Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

Hello all, After a long while, finally got GDM to work with Windowmaker, but the system fonts are a little horrible - am trying to fix it. After extensive search on Google it seems that GDM sets the DPI of the X server wrongly - anyone help me find out exactly where to set the correct DPI? I'

Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

Micha, Well, I was using KDM before and the fonts were perfect - when I switch back to KDM, the fonts are fine, but when I switch to GDM the fonts goes ugly. But anyway, tried your method, but when I do an "startx" it loads xcfe - how do I get startx to load windowmaker? Thanks for your help s

Re: Problem with GDM setting ugly system fonts

PI. Thanks very much for your help again ;) Cheers - Piers Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:04:56AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, After a long while, finally got GDM to work with Windowmaker, but the system fonts ar

Unable to edit KDE menu

Hello all, Just installed KDE on my work and home PCs to test it out - while I can edit the KDE menu at work, I can't edit the KDE menu at home - I open up "KDE Menu Editor", make the changes, save it, and then exit, but find the menu hasn't changed at all, and reloading KDE Menu Editor shows th

Webcam and Linux

Hello all, Have finally got my Quickcam webcam to work under Linux, and want to capture video from it - not images, but video. The only software that I could find that would capture video was xawtv - is there any other? My problem with xawtv is that I can start it with 'xawtv -c "/dev/video0"'

Exiting every KDE program shows the crash handler

Hi all, Reinstalled Debian last Friday, and upgraded to testing, and installed KDE, and it worked fine until today, every time I exit any KDE application, I get the KDE crash handler, for example if I load up the calculator, and I exit it, I get: The application unknown (kcalc) crashed and caused t

Re: Webcam and Linux

Am using an USB webcam not a firewire one Cheers - Piers Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:54:22AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Have finally got my Quickcam webcam to work under Linux, and want to capture video from it - not images, but video. The only software that I

Computers doesn't power off

Upgraded to the 2.4.27 kernels on both my work and home computers but now I find that they both don't power the computer off automatically, I have to push the power button manually when the computers has shut down - how to make it turn itself off now? Thanks very much for your help in advance C

USB mouse problems

Hi all, Have got an standard USB Intellimouse - I put in a new hard drive, installed Debian, and basically it worked just fine. Then I had to remove the hard drive and go back to my old install, but the mouse doens't work there, and I've mounted the drive I had to remove and checked all settin

FIXED: USB mouse problems

Needed HID Input Layer Support enabled in the kernel. Thanks for your help Cheers - Piers Craig Jackson wrote: On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:17:56 +0100 Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Have got an standard USB Intellimouse - I put in a new hard drive, installed Debian, and basica

insmod.old/lsmod.old etc probs

Hello all, I think it's related to me trying out the 2.6 kernel a while ago and giving up and going back to the 2.4 kernel, I don't remember exactly when it occured, but it was several months ago, but when it happened, I couldn't do any module management, always got complaints that .old didn't e

Re: insmod.old/lsmod.old etc probs

when X is shut down, and it doesn't install the module as it failed to insert it: -> Kernel module load error: WARNING: /usr/local/sbin/insmod.old: I am not the old version! Thanks very much for your help again Cheers - Piers Adam Aube wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: I think it's

nVidia installation problem

Hello all, Have installed Debian on my K6-3 box, with the Viper V330 card, and downloaded and compiled and installed the 2.4.25 kernel and its modules just fine. Have downloaded the latest nVidia drivers, it compiled, but won't install: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log

Xfree86 blank screen problem

Running Debian Testing, 2.4.25, NVIDIA-Linux 5336 driver, running 2 cards, Gainward FX Pro 660 128MB AGP and a Gainward FX Pro 660 64MB PCI with 3 monitors. Got a new IDE hard drive, added that on my PC, installed Win2k after a few problems, installed the Nvidia Windows driver, rebooted, then

MBR problems

Hello all, I work for a very tiny charity. I was given 2 Dell Dimension 1100 computers with Debian installed originally, used as test machines. Their hard drives were wiped on purpose by an external company (long story, that I'm not too fully aware of) and I was told to try and recover

Installation/network card problem

Hello all, A few weeks ago, I got an Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 PCMCIA card off eBay. I had an old Etch unstable netinst CD lying about, so I installed Etch on my old laptop using the CD, installing over the network without any problems. Now work has given me an old Dell Inspiron 25

Re: Installation/network card problem - FIXED but annoying.

Hello all, A few weeks ago, I got an Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 PCMCIA card off eBay. I had an old Etch unstable netinst CD lying about, so I installed Etch on my old laptop using the CD, installing over the network without any problems. Now work has given me an old Dell Inspiron 2500 lapt

Sed advice needed

Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below: "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111"

Re: Sed advice needed

On 31 May 2007, at 17:49, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payloa d t ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark&

DVD playback problems

Hello all, I'm sure there is a simple solution to this problem but I'm not quite sure how to fix it. Bascially, I can't play DVD's unless I'm running as root - i.e. mplayer only plays if I'm root, but xine refuses to play at all. Someone suggested that my user wasn't part of the group cdrom

Re: DVD playback problems

Andrew, Thanks very much for replying to my email. I appreciate it. I think what really matters is the permissions on /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc depending on how you're set up. check those. they should be root:cdrom. Also, what mechanism are you using for mounting these disks? You may have to monk

Re: DVD playback problems

Seeker, Thank you very much for your reply. From: Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I assume this should be cdrom not disk correc

Re: DVD playback problems

Seeker, If /dev/hdb is your DVD drive then it should get the ownership of root:cdrom, not root:disk. This an identification/enumeration problem and the proper fix would be to figure out a udev rule or whatever that would identify it and give it the correct ownership. Failing that the next bes

Re: DVD playback problems

b, // # /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/./install-css.sh luck. b. Fantastic! That fixed my problem! Thanks very much for your help, much appreciated! :) Regards - Piers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Probs with netboot/NFS

Hello all, Am trying to boot a diskless client with the following spec: Gigabtye GA-6BXE 256MB PC133 RAM Slot 1 Intel Pentium 3 666MHz at 133MHz FSB Intel Ethernet Pro 100B network card Geforce MX4000 video card It downloads the 2.4.32 kernel from my server and boots, but when it tries to moun

Re: Probs with netboot/NFS - SOLVED

Fantastic! Your bit of advice wasn't the only thing I needed to change. I needed to also change: * Recompile kernel without cramfs or ramdisk support and include automounter support, boot with nfs filesystem, and a couple other options enabled which was pretty important! * Use a different c

Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25

AFAIK Plus.net offers 2 meg with no blocked ports - the Premier service that is. Cheers - Piers Richard Lyons wrote: A quick OT: Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (>=2G) who can provide an open port 25? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

OT - power off probs

Hello all, Am having a problem with my computer not quite relevant to the list (but it runs Debian hey... ;)) but not sure exactly where to ask so I guess this list is better than most. This concerns my computer turning itself off occasionally and refusing to power on unless I move the "Reset

Re: OT - power off probs

Even tho it's only about a year old? Thanks! Regards - Piers Raul wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, Am having a problem with my computer not quite relevant to the list (but it runs Debian hey... ;)) but not sure exactly where to ask so I guess this list is better than most.

Re: OT - power off probs

r the 2 systems - why didn't it start happening with the old system? Because the old system didn't draw as much power? Cheers - Piers Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 20:12, Piers Kittel wrote: Even tho it's only about a year old? A year old psu can h

Re: OT - power off probs

te: On Tuesday 27 December 2005 21:49, Piers Kittel wrote: Sorry - I didn't count the PSU fan :/ The PSU does have its own built in fan. The spare 350watter has 2 built in fans. Also, it's proprietary so I doubt it'd be easy to find a replacement PSU. But it strikes me strange,

mounting DVDs via NFS problem

Hello all, Am trying to mount a DVD drive via NFS and am having problems. For note, 192.168.1.2 (hostname - destiny) is the client and 192.168.1.15 (hostname - mythtv) is the server. I have this in my /etc/exports: /media/cdrom0 192.168.1.2(ro,sync) and 192.168.1.2 is in the /etc/hosts.all

Re: mounting DVDs via NFS problem

Andrew, how can you mount a dvd over nfs if its not mounted on its local machine? Do these numbers above, as they come from destiny match the numbers if they are run on mythtv? IOW, are we looking at the same disk here? This bit is just to test if I can acutally mount it, i.e. I'm running the

Very poor apt source speeds

Hello all, For over a month, I'm seeing extremely poor apt-get download speeds, I'd be *very* lucky to get 5kb/s and occasionally 25kb/s if it connects at all, and I've tried several sources including: mirror.ox.ac.uk debian.blueyonder.co.uk debian.hands.com ftp.uk.debian.org www.mirrorservic

Re: mounting DVDs via NFS problem

wrote: On 21/01/06, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, Am trying to mount a DVD drive via NFS and am having problems. For note, 192.168.1.2 (hostname - destiny) is the client and 192.168.1.15 (hostname - mythtv) is the server. I have this in my /etc/exports: /media/cdrom0

Re: poweroff can't power off the power

modprobe apm if that works, edit your /etc/modules file and add in apm. Sorted Cheers - Piers linux china wrote: Hi, My debian 3.1 celeron machine can't be powered off when I run the poweroff command, I had the same issue when I use other old distrubution Linux system many years ago but fix

Problems installing Debian on old laptop

Hello all, Am trying to install Debian on a fairly old laptop (manufactured 1998), as I've broken my old one (flying hard drives and laptop LCD's doesn't mix well together) and can't afford a new one right now. The laptop is a Pico Systems (long since gone out of business - good riddance) Sil

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

Andrei & Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than t

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

To those who helped me, Thanks very much for all your advice, but I've tried all options to disable everything but they're kernel parameters which aren't taken in consideration that early I think? It stops exactly at the point right after uncompressing the kernel - it looks like a bit like tr