installing potato with MS Natural KB Pro USB

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
Anyone know why I wouldn't be able to intall potato using a MS Natural KB Pro (I also have a wireless Intellimouse Pro) both are USB I disconnected the mouse with the same result. they work under progeny and redhat so it must be specific to Potato. I am able to navigat the boot screens like the hel

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
think it is just a CONTINUE prompt. I'm assuming this is because they are USB devices. *** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 1:39pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:04:34 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33p

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
*** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: > One suggestion might be to do: >apt-get -d dist-upgrade >apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > call me a newbie, but what would the exact lines be that someone should add to their sources.list file

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
I am very thankful to all of you! I can't express how helpful you have been. I will take what you have told me and keep working on it. You've deffinately made me confident this can work. My local LUG isn't very freindly, so I thank you all very much for your suggestions and I'm sure I will be keepi

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
> > My TNT2 cards seem to worn in other systems this is my first time with a > > GeForce2 (same driver though, I believe) What did you install with? a > > stable image or woody? and did you up grade? > > "seem to worn" ?? "seem to work"? work sorry

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
ac patches? On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: > > VIA686a > > apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there > are ac patches that fix this. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could have a flaky mobo. anyway to test? I dual-boot the same system with WinXP and play highend games without a problem. I understand the drivers are

Install woes...X problem

2002-02-06 Thread Ray Bowles
I'm having a tough time all of a sudden. My non-X machines work great but I'm having a problem on my desktop. I tried every type of Debian (2.2_rev5, Woody, Sid, pseudo) download I could get and they all failed. Mostly due to my USB keyboard and mouse. I eventually got an image of P