Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-08 Thread Ian L
At 08:07 AM 10/8/2004, you wrote: The point is, did you ever use a Dos / Windows utility to partition the disk, or did you buy it new and partition it with the installer? No, no windows or other non-linux partitioning tool should have been used on this disk. Linux is the only thing thats been on t

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-07 Thread Ian L
At 10:43 AM 10/7/2004, you wrote: On Wednesday 06 October 2004 16:33, Ian Lipsky wrote: > I've been trying to get the 2.6.8 kernel installed. But it keeps failing > to boot. > > nforce2 ide controller at pci slot :00:09.0 > nforce2 chipset revision 162 > nforce2 not 100% native mode, will probe

Re: kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Ian L
. Right now i'm going to have to reinstall the whole thing again since i dont have a choice as to which kernel loads. (not that big a deal since its a new system, just getting tired of all the re-installs) thanks for the help, Ian At 02:43 PM 10/5/2004, you wrote: Incoming from Ian L: > I&

Re: kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Ian L
since its a new system, just getting tired of all the re-installs) thanks for the help, Ian At 02:43 PM 10/5/2004, you wrote: Incoming from Ian L: > I'm trying to install kernel 2.6.8 and during the apt process it says i > need to configure lilo to use initrd. http://lists.debian.org/

Re: kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Ian L
# Boot up Linux by default. # default=Linux initrd=/initrd.img image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 This is similiar to what my lilo.conf looked like after i edited it, except: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only initrd=/

Re: kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Ian L
At 02:43 PM 10/5/2004, you wrote: Incoming from Ian L: > I'm trying to install kernel 2.6.8 and during the apt process it says i > need to configure lilo to use initrd. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/07/msg00582.html See down at the bottom. Thanks ... but i screwed someth

kernel update, initrd image help

2004-10-05 Thread Ian L
I'm trying to install kernel 2.6.8 and during the apt process it says i need to configure lilo to use initrd. Can someone either explain the process for doing this or point me to a link that does? I found a default mkinitrd.conf file, ran mkinitrd and it created an image file (it complaining ab

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-10-01 Thread Ian L
At 08:21 AM 10/1/2004, you wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 15:45, Ian L wrote: > To answer pretty much all of your questions ... i dont know ;p > > I used the latest daily debian installer build to do this. During the > partitioning process i selected ext3 and swap as the par

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-30 Thread Ian L
At 02:16 PM 9/30/2004, you wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 15:00, Ian L wrote: > At 07:58 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 29 September 2004 16:01, Ian L wrote: > > > At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: > > > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 > >

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-30 Thread Ian L
At 02:16 PM 9/30/2004, you wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 15:00, Ian L wrote: > At 07:58 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 29 September 2004 16:01, Ian L wrote: > > > At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: > > > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 > >

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-30 Thread Ian L
At 07:58 AM 9/30/2004, you wrote: On Wednesday 29 September 2004 16:01, Ian L wrote: > At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 > > > >Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I'm just having no luck at all with this. After it fini

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Ian L
At 03:28 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: This really sounds like you need to file a bug against debian-installer. This is the kind of stuff they want to get fixed (especially the crashes!) before the 'big release' which is supposed to happen any day now. :-) Just point me to link ... i tried looking in th

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Ian L
At 03:16 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:49:11 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You don't mention which netinst cd you're using. Is it rc1 or a daily > >build or something else? If you're using rc1, you can probably solve > >your p

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Ian L
At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic i > added, an intel pro 100 S, with chipset number 82550. > > I'm trying to use the netinst cd and its

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Ian L
At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic i > added, an intel pro 100 S, with chipset number 82550. > > I'm trying to use the netinst cd and its

NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Ian L
i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic i added, an intel pro 100 S, with chipset number 82550. I'm trying to use the netinst cd and its not working because it keeps failing to set up my network cards. I tried installing it using both the 2.4 kernel and the 2.6 kernel

asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-28 Thread Ian L
i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic i added, an intel pro 100 S, with chipset number 82550. I'm trying to use the netinst cd and its not working because it keeps failing to set up my network cards. I tried installing it using both the 2.4 kernel and the 2.6 kernel

Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install

2004-02-04 Thread Ian L
At 07:27 PM 2/4/2004, you wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:15 pm, Ian L wrote: > I posted it yesterday i think around 6pm pacific time. I just sorted the postings by date (which also sorts by time), and I looked at posts from 2 PM PST to 9 PM PST, and your post isn't there. Adam wel

Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install

2004-02-04 Thread Ian L
At 06:32 PM 2/4/2004, you wrote: Your topic was so annoying that I didn't bother to look at the actual contents of the message. -- monique yes but other people did and gave me some useful advice, so apparently my tactic worked in this instance, since my post the previous day got no replies at all

Re: debian sucks aka i cant get it to install

2004-02-04 Thread Ian L
I posted it yesterday i think around 6pm pacific time. Ian At 07:05 PM 2/4/2004, you wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:39 pm, Ian Lipsky wrote: > Yesterday i posted the same message and didnt get any replies. I can't find your original post in the archives. Odd. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

debian sucks aka i cant get it to install

2004-02-04 Thread Ian L
I'm glad debian isnt my first introduction to linux because if it were, i'd be running back to windows. Right now trying the testing network install I've tried installing it several times now and i cant get anywhere with it Lilo never seems to install, nor does grub. It either does nothing, or