installation and such

1999-11-03 Thread Mock Ko
I'm pretty much now at the give-up point in trying to install debian. This is indeed a very hard thing for me to do, since I used to install 68k bsd systems manually (building scripts to mknod all the devices and such). I have now downloaded the ENTIRE debian tree, hoping that would help, but all

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
--- Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm probably just going to re-download the whole > thing > > and try again. > > Ewww - I would try to find a copy of Debian 2.1 (or > 2.0) at a local > 'Borders' bookstore - much more convenient. Believe me, I would if I could. Unfortunately I live

Re: debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
em to boot the linux partition). Now it just complains at the first package, saying it can't find it. I'm probably just going to re-download the whole thing and try again. --- virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote: > > > I did the inst

debian installation woes

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
I did the installation for debian, but it failed miserably. It did the initial install, but it crashed every time I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I created. Once I did that (it took about 15 minutes to read the kernel from the floppy), it went to the main installer thing. I selected th

debian installer and adaptec 2940

1999-11-02 Thread Mock Ko
I recently downloaded the latest Debian and tried installing it. Unfortunately, it dies when it tries to initialize the SCSI bus (Adaptec 2940UW). After downloading the sequencer code, it says: Failed in WD-7000 initialization. It then reports 1 host (my Seagate 9 gig), and then it loops endlessly