apt wants to remove kernel

2005-09-21 Thread Vikas Rawal
I am trying to install a package using apt (r-base) but among the packages apt would like to remove in the process includes the kernel image!! I have tried installing other packages also (emacs and ess), but I get the same message. My sources.list and an illustrative output of apt-get is reprodu

Re:

2004-10-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
o machines in a lab. Yesterday, I installed redhat on one of them because the machines could not have been spared for more days for experimenting. But I still have one machine with a functioning woody. Let me see where does that take me. Thanks again, Vikas Vikas Rawal wrote: On (18/10/04 09:4

x-windows configuration in woody/sarge

2004-10-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
I have been trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN for last one week. I have tried both woody (stable) and sarge (testing). In both, the x-windows configuration does not work. In woody, installation went fine except that none of the video cards/monitor options there get x-windows runni

x-windows configuration in woody/sarge

2004-10-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
I have been trying to install debian on a Compaq Deskpro EN for last one week. I have tried both woody (stable) and sarge (testing). In both, the x-windows configuration does not work. In woody, installation went fine except that none of the video cards/monitor options there get x-windows runni

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
:21AM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: But Sarge seems to be available only for netinstall. I am going to have to install debian (if it succeeds) on a number of machines in a computer lab. Netinstall is no good for that. I want to do it with the full set of CDs. You probably will never need much o

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-14 Thread Vikas Rawal
I managed to install debian but after recreating the partitions and surrendering my windows partition as well. But the problem now is that it is not able to configure the right monitor and video adoptor. This is a compaq machine with an intel 815 chipset. Monitor is Compaq V570. On a similar ma

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
t I had to download, I would have pretty much gotten everything. That is obviously not true. Vikas Clive Menzies wrote: On (13/10/04 16:16), Vikas Rawal wrote: I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 CDs (

Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to install, pretty soon it gives a message to the effect that debootstrap returned an error (1) and