Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2007-01-20 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
see bottom for update: one thing at a time... I can mount my Windows XP partition which also won't boot so I can recover data. Grub seems to work fine. I'm just not proficient in it yet. we can fix that. what partition is xp on? mine is on hdb1 or in grub speak (hd1,0) so I have in

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-26 Thread Gayle Fairless
Subject: Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:42:39 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:50:55AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I have a dual-booting

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:17:15PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > >The normal login won't show a password > > > > > >>>prompt to let me get in. > >> > >> > > > >what does it do then? > > > > > > It skips the password prompt and goes immediately to the login prompt. > Every 5th

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:50:55AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard >(socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub >was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the >beta2 network ins

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:50:55AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard > >(socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub > >was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the > >beta2 network

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-21 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IEE

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:44:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > stevendemetrius wrote: > > > > linux-image-2.6-686 is not the actual kernel image. It is a transitional > > package which has a dependency on the latest 2.6.x kernel-image. So your > > kernel will be upgraded everytime you do an upgrad

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
stevendemetrius wrote: > > linux-image-2.6-686 is not the actual kernel image. It is a transitional > package which has a dependency on the latest 2.6.x kernel-image. So your > kernel will be upgraded everytime you do an upgrade. > > If you don't want to have your kernel upgraded automatically

upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-19 Thread stevendemetrius
linux-image-2.6-686 is not the actual kernel image. It is a transitional package which has a dependency on the latest 2.6.x kernel-image. So your kernel will be upgraded everytime you do an upgrade. If you don't want to have your kernel upgraded automatically then install the actual kernel-im

Re: upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:17:18AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: >I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard > (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was > installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 > network ins

upgrade of etch from beta2 net install to current level

2006-12-18 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I have a dual-booting box with an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe motherboard (socket 478) with a Radeon ATI 9550 graphics card. Etch using grub was installed this past spring 2006 with a 2.6.12 kernel from the beta2 network installation CDROM. Since I now have ADSL (the motherboard has built-in IE