Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-11 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:29:44 + Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 18:13:54 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > > > Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I > > still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny > > until I buy a somewhat newer computer that

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 18:13:54 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have > trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a > somewhat newer computer that doesn't have problems with the Debian Squeeze > CD. As it

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Hsu
Thanks, Brian, I'll try installing Lenny and then upgrading. If I still have trouble with Squeeze, then I'll have to stick with Lenny until I buy a somewhat newer computer that doesn't have problems with the Debian Squeeze CD. On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 23:36:17 + Brian wrote: > > Not being able

Re: Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 at 16:40:41 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a > 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to > only use the i386 versions of Debian. > > I'm havin

Difficulty installing Debian 6.0.0 on an old computer

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Hsu
I'm trying to turn an old computer (10-year-old IBM NetVista desktop with a 1.0 GHz processor and 256 MB of RAM) into a server. Thus, I've made sure to only use the i386 versions of Debian. I'm having difficulty installing Debian Squeeze on it. I did once successfully install

Re: Difficulty installing debian

2000-02-05 Thread Ron Rademaker
Do you happen to have a AMD Athlon processor, if that's the case you should boot with the resc1440-tecra.bin image. Ron == MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU == On Sat, 5 Feb

Difficulty installing debian

2000-02-05 Thread natet
I am having a problem installing 2.1. The welcome screen comes up, it detects my drives, attempts to detect my scsi deviced(which I have none), and then locks up. Is there a way to disabel scsi autodetecting at the boot: prompt on the install disk? -