GRUB "Error 18" booting lenny

2009-04-16 Thread Vwaju
her new (smaller) HDD, but without some documentation I would just be trial and error, which could take a while. As always, glad to hear your thoughts. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City P.S. Have to mention in passing: During my conversation with the technician at New Egg (specifically on the que

Re: lenny failing to boot

2009-04-15 Thread Vwaju
I apologize for not doing more research on this before posting the problem. I see there is some material on this on Linux Forums. After I've researched it, I'll post again. Best Regards, Vwaju, NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

lenny failing to boot

2009-04-15 Thread Vwaju
I just installed lenny on a a brand spanking new hard drive. I was impressed with how quickly and smoothly it went. However, when installation was complete and I rebooted, I got: GRUB Loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 18 What now? Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To

Re: checking boot partition with fsck

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
On Apr 13, 1:10 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Vwaju wrote: > > Thanks to Lisi and Sven for advising me on the use of fsck to check > > the boot partition.  (I believe the –f option to fsck is *not* > > documented on the man page!) > > > After boot failure,

meta-question for debian users

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
my repost got folded into the original post, and the original subject reinstated! Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Thanks and Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

checking boot partition with fsck

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
Thanks to Lisi and Sven for advising me on the use of fsck to check the boot partition. (I believe the –f option to fsck is *not* documented on the man page!) After boot failure, I booted debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and ran fsck on the boot partition: u...@debian:~$ sudo -i debian:~# fsck –

boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-13 Thread Vwaju
mage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? As always, I'm grateful for any guidance you can give. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-10 Thread Vwaju
mage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? As always, I'm grateful for any guidance you can give. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: boot failure -- checking the boot partition

2009-04-10 Thread Vwaju
On Apr 10, 5:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:12:22AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. > > > I have loaded debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and now I would like to > > mount the boot partition /dev/hda1 and...

boot failure diagnostics

2009-04-10 Thread Vwaju
mage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? As always, I'm grateful for any guidance you can give. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

boot failure -- checking the boot partition

2009-04-10 Thread Vwaju
ut of this fly-bottle? Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Vwaju
I'm guessing the image I need is debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/ Would that be right? Best, Vwaju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Vwaju
Thanks, Andrei and Francisco! Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Vwaju
> > Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? > > Do you have a live CD or similar? > I'm afraid not. How do I get one? Thanks for your help, Andrei Best, Vwaju NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Debian won't boot

2009-03-31 Thread Vwaju
hw_random modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting rtc What is going on here? Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Thanks, as always, for your thoughts. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: apt-get – problem configuring /etc/apt/sources .list

2008-11-20 Thread Vwaju
Thank you Bob and Eugene. Bob -- Yes, inserting: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian sarge main into /etc/apt/sources.list and then running #apt-get update does the trick. Might there be a guide to using apt that is conceptually clearer than the man page? Best Regards, Vwaju -- To

apt-get – problem configuring /etc/apt/sources.lis t

2008-11-20 Thread Vwaju
11/19/08, then commented out). What does the entry in sources.list needs to look like in order to download monit_4.5-1_i386.deb? Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-25 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 23, 10:10 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. > > > There can be problems with that. I don't rem

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-25 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 23, 5:40 am, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Friday 22 August 2008 22:23:01 Vwaju, vous avez écrit : > > > I am having trouble with my Debian network configuration, and I am > > trying to isolate the problem. The name of my host is "jupiter"

/bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-22 Thread Vwaju
name # EXPECTED "jupiter" jupiter:~# /bin/hostname –-alias jupiter # NOW HOSTNAME IS PRINTED! Can anyone shed light on the last 4 results? Thanks & Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 10, 5:20 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: > > [...] > > > I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking > > configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, &

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 10, 5:20 pm, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun,10.Aug.08, 12:48:48, Vwaju wrote: > > [...] > > > I installed Debian on my Dell Dimension 4100 and, with networking > > configured for DHCP, I am able to connect to the Internet, ftp, http, &

can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Vwaju
his problem. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need sarge

2008-08-04 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 4, 10:40 am, Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vwaju, > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:54:29 -0700 (PDT)Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For historical reasons, I need to install sarge . > > > > > > Can someone give me a direction?

need sarge

2008-08-04 Thread Vwaju
mirror that has all the sarge packages. Can someone give me a direction? Thanks & Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Vwaju
On Aug 1, 9:40 am, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vwaju: > > > > I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the > > O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is > > only for training (to learn Debian an

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Vwaju
learned how to build an internet server without O'Reilly holding my hand, I could update to the current stable version of Debian. Assuming this makes sense, how would I get the sarge equivalent of debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso? Again, thanks for your very valuable help! Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread Vwaju
ng > it with 'dpkg -i $package.deb'. But beware that dpkg doesn't handle > dependencies. Jochen, many thanks for the helpful commentaries on Debian package management! Couldn't I add http://packages.debian.org/sarge to /etc/apt/ sources.list and then say: # apt-get install x

error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread Vwaju
.org that I chose when I configured Debian. Thanks & Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-25 Thread Vwaju
On Jul 24, 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Original Message > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: before I could ping, now I can't > >Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:00:38 +0300 > > >>On Wed,23.Jul.08,

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Vwaju
On Jul 23, 7:30 pm, Chris Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am building an internet server (primarily to get some experience > > with and knowledge of networking). > > If you're not familiar with networking then I would

before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Vwaju
rebooted, and I couldn't ping *anything*. jupiter:/home/admin# ping manhattanhandyman.com ping: unknown host manhattanhandyman.com jupiter:/home/admin# ping 216.227.214.3 connect: network is unreachable I would appreciate any suggestions. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBS

problem installing debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-07-08 Thread Vwaju
tallation. Is 64 MB just not enough memory? I would be grateful for any thoughts any of you might have about this. Thanks & Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 "Etch" – Official i386 NET INST Binary-1 20080218-14:15

2008-07-08 Thread Vwaju
tallation. Is 64 MB just not enough memory? I would be grateful for any thoughts any of you might have about this. Thanks & Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gigabit Notebook Adaptor for networking Debian

2008-06-30 Thread Vwaju
On Jun 30, 8:50 am, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an antique Gateway Solo 1100 laptop, in mint condition, running > Debian Linux. I would like to use it to administer my headless > internet server (also running Debian). However, it needs an ethernet > card. >

Gigabit Notebook Adaptor for networking Debian

2008-06-30 Thread Vwaju
77&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=5247745472B03 I am wondering if this would do the trick. I would be greatful for any insights> Thanks & Best Regards, Vwaju, New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Vwaju
On Jun 26, 1:10 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:59:12 Adrian Chapela wrote: > > > Vwaju escribió: > > > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > > >http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It

debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Vwaju
I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing computers: Gateway Solo 1100 laptop Dell Dimension 4100 Dell Inspiron 8500 (I set the boot order t