Re: Installing Debian debian-live-7.4-amd64

2014-03-06 Thread Gilles Pelletier
Here is the picture. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem very clear. http://imgur.com/cgdbULj It mentions missing firmware files. 2014-03-06 12:28 GMT-05:00 Mark Carroll : > Gilles Pelletier writes: > >> Do you have a suggestion of where I should post this picture so that

Re: Installing Debian debian-live-7.4-amd64

2014-03-06 Thread Gilles Pelletier
> > [cut] >> >>> >>> I took a picture of Alt+F4 with my phone: there is the day and >>> date, > I disabled drive A: floppy in the bios and tried again. The installation jammed in the same place and I took a picture of ALT-F4. Do you have a suggestion of where I should post this picture so that you

Installing Debian debian-live-7.4-amd64

2014-03-05 Thread Gilles Pelletier
I have been wanting to install Debian for a long time but have never succeded. Now I really want to succeed. Live dvd works well and connects to internet. Install stalls when detecting hardware. Graphical install stalls at screen titled "Detect network hardware". What can I do?

Trying to understand how checksums and signatures work

2007-12-17 Thread Gilles Pelletier
I found out the MD5SUMs are in the package itself but where are the signatures? I suppose they're in the file that is updated when you do an update. But where is this file? Why are every file in the package md5summed ? Wouldn't a sum on the whole package be enough? I had a bad experience whi

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-15 Thread Gilles Pelletier
installation of Woody. I'll be back to you, tomorrow night most probably. We'll try to figure out what went wrong. Regards! Gilles Pelletier -- La Masse Critique Le sionisme est aujourd'hui aux juifs ce que le nazisme était aux Allemands chrétiens. http://pages.infinit.net/mcrit/sionisme.html

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
At 00:29 15-08-01 -0400, you wrote: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:51AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier wrote: >> >> Tell me, is this what's preventing the team from offering boot diskettes >> for Woody nearly six months after kernel 2.4 is out? >> > >You are se

How to answer

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
I'm used to a web - news interface, but not to email - news. I can't post directly to th enewsgroup. I suppose that's normal. I received two copies of some posts, none of others. Answering to any any of the two copies I received, sends the reply to sender, not to the newsgroup. I'm using Eudora. H

RE: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
At 12:16 15-08-01 +1000, you wrote: >I have used Slackware in the past and I will NEVER use it again. It was >just so damn unreliable (windows spent more uptime than the slackware >system) REALLY? You should post on alt.os.linux.slackware! They're una(slack)ware! A friend of mine has a Slack ser

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
Sorry if this message ends outside the thread. I can't post directly to the newsgroup and replying to any of the two messages I received for each post, sends the answer back to the author. There must be some Debian style here too... GP At 22:13 14-08-01 -0400, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écri

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
At 19:18 14-08-01 -0700, you wrote: "Karsten M. Self" écrivait/wrote: >A Debian distro, when released, is stable. Which stuff was I reading the other day, Red Hat's or SuSE's. It said "Don't trust our stuff, it's unstable as a swamp over hell!" That's why we're thinking Debian or Slack... but I

Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Gilles Pelletier
We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning towards Debian. The newbie, even though his concerns for security are limited, woul