Re: Installing Debian 1.2

1997-06-28 Thread Jason M. Daniels
First, you probably want to install 1.3, not 1.2, unless you have some specific reason for doing so. >Would someone PLEASE answer my e-mails and help? I have tried to install >Debian Linux, and get stuck in the cfdisk menu. How do I go through this >menu, and continue? I would appreciate an ans

Re: Installing Debian 1.2

1997-06-27 Thread Jason M. Daniels
>Finally, an answer. I get to the point in cfdisk where I can make it >bootable ( I am using a DOS partition on my second HD), creating the >primary area. Then What? I have 64 meg of RAM, so I don't think I need >the cache area. I assume you mean that you created a primary Linux partition. Grea

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-27 Thread Jason M. Daniels
>Perhaps derogating this guy's views as "stupid" or "silly" serves no >constructive purpose, especially when there is some validity there. Where? I did my Debian install from my DOS hard drive, totally diskless. I have no experience with Debian CDs, but feedback here seems to be favorable. I m

Re: Debian woes

1997-06-15 Thread Jason M. Daniels
>Please pardon the rant, but I gotta let this out. You are pardoned. >Where the heck can I get a CD with a WORKING debian distribution on it? >I've tried LDR, LSL's Trilinux, and stuff I've FTP'd. I've yet to get 1.3 >to work. Dunno; I did my installation with the base1_3.tgz file and LOADLIN

Re: Locales Problem?

1997-06-12 Thread Jason M. Daniels
>W Paul Mills wrote: >> Change your LANG variable to LANG="en_US". That should solve it. > >Hi, > >I tried putting LANG="en_US" in my .bash_profile and still get LANG=us >when I do an env. As you can tell I'm a unix/linux novice. What am I >overlooking? > >Sorry for the delay in replying. We h

Re: XFree86 problems

1997-06-12 Thread Jason M. Daniels
>I'm trying to install XFree86 using the unstable 3.3 distribution, since >I mave a Matrox Mystique. Everything was going well, until I ran startx, >whereupon I received the following error message: > >fatal server error: >xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) T