I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux
was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was
returned:
Hello Allen,
Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any
system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no suppo
>Why don't you run 'dmesg' after the system boots and send us the output?
>This would be helpful.
>
Acctually I already diagnosed the problem it was my Promise Ultra 33
controler card, I had to pull it out and use my motherboard.
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I have been getting REALLY slow transfer rates on the Debian FTP site (like
0.22k/s) when I ussualy get AT LEAEST around 1.8K/s and seems how I screwed
up and downloaded the wrong stuff I have to mirror most of the msdos-i386
branch to my HD. Does anybody know of any reliable mirorrs? I tired the
o
I just voited at http://www.slashdot.org and Debian is at 714 and Red Hat
is at 738! Get off your a**es and go vote!
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I think I figured it out. I have been downloading the packages stright to
my HD and then copying them to my ZIP drive (on another comp) then I take
the ZIP drive and use it to run the packages, I think that I just haven't
copied those packages yet. What I did was put the packages file in the root
d
I have download most of the debian packages off of their website (time,
time, time) and I have put them on a ZIP disk, the problem that I get is I
will run dselect and when I got to install it says "Skipping deselected
package XXX" Can somebody please tell me what directory structure I need
for thi
At 05:54 PM 11/29/97 +, you wrote:
>when I'm playing multiplayer quake (1.09) I can't move forwards or
>backwards.. I can in single player mode.. My opponents are win95 tcp/ip
>with quake 1.06.. is there an incompatibility?
>
With my experience Win95 TPC/IP in quake is EXTREAMLY slow, it is p
[Snip]
>So that snippet I sent you helped a little?
>
>As for X, first off tell me how far you've gotten already.
>
Well acctually what I ended up doing was getting rid of my promise ultra
controler card and pluging my HD into the mother board. Did that and every
thing worked fine. As far as X as
Ok I know that this is a really stupid question but I am new so please bear
with me, thank you. First I would like to say thanx to all the ppl that
helped me get debian on my system, adn to all the others out there that
have a Gateway2000 that debain won't install on: It is your promise ultra
card,
At 08:18 PM 11/28/97 -0700, you wrote:
[snip]
>> along with a Gateway2000 UDMA controller card and when I try to
> ^^^
>I take it this is some kind of nice proprietary IDE controller?
[snip]
The man says Ultra Direct Memory Access and my HD is a Quantum UD
Hi, it's me again, is this going through? The reason I ask is because
nobody has answered me or my questions? But I have a Quantum UDMA drive
along with a Gateway2000 UDMA controller card and when I try to insstall
Debian it won't detect any hard drives, or it will detect my internal IDE
zip drive
At 11:12 PM 11/27/97 -0600, you wrote:
Debian won't let me partition my drive. When I boot my machine with the rescue disk it loads root.bin then it loads Linux. during the Linux load process it scrolls by and says that it doesn't recognize my PCI card. When I try to partition my drive it
Ok here's what I do: I have made Disks of most (all of the ones I need) off
of the Debian site. So I stick in the rescue disk reset and boom it (the
install prog) starts. When I try to partition my HD it doesn't dectect my
HD it detects my IDE ZIP drive? If I don't have a disk in my ZIP drive then
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