Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-14 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Friday 11 January 2002 04:58 pm, Adam Majer wrote: > > To DL files if you know URL, use wget Whoa! I LOVE wget! Thanks! And thanks everyone, for the great suggestions. I appreciate it. --Mark Seven [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Soon to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-11 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:18:21PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > Adam wrote: > > > BTW, what release are you installing? stable? testing? > > I installed "Woody" at the advice of the list, previously; > since it was possible that the console problem had been > fixed. I've heard on the Red H

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
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Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Adam wrote: > BTW, what release are you installing? stable? testing? I installed "Woody" at the advice of the list, previously; since it was possible that the console problem had been fixed. I've heard on the Red Hat list, people that said they would rather be using Debian, but that their vid

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Mark Seven Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Heh. > > I've been offline all this time; I still *CRINGE* at the > thought of what I did to my Red Hat installation, so I > won't go into it (YIKES!) but I was stuck with having to > get Debian up & running--I tried everything! But nothing > wo

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2002-01-10 Thread Mark Seven Smith
Heh. I've been offline all this time; I still *CRINGE* at the thought of what I did to my Red Hat installation, so I won't go into it (YIKES!) but I was stuck with having to get Debian up & running--I tried everything! But nothing worked. So, I put in an old Cirrus Logic card, with a whole

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2001-12-14 Thread Kent West
Mark Seven Smith wrote: Set up a small (50 - 75MB) partition on hda1 with an MS-DOS fdisk and format and make it bootable to MS-DOS (or Win95 Command Prompt only). OMG, I have struggled *so hard* to get away from the tyranny of MICRO$OFT...WILL THE NIGHTMARE NEVER END??? ;-) Scary, ain'

Re: Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2001-12-13 Thread Kent West
Mark Seven Smith wrote: In the installation [of Potato], the install program that comes up is a simple text-based interface, with scrolling lists and such. But if I try to scroll the lists, the whole computer bombs--it just locks up. It is very strange; the keyboard wont' work, the RESET swi

Fwd: Debian Won't Install! (System Locks Up)

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Seven Smith
I originally posted this to the debian-boot list, but I guess there isn't as much traffic there, so I am now forwarding it to this list. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! -- Forwarded Message -- From: Mark Seven Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: