Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-11-03 Thread Jiri Baum
Sergey wrote: > The package route is still better, but you don't have to use dselect. There's no problem about using dselect. Tell it you don't have a Packages file, when it asks for the path to the main packages, give it the path you have and tell it to 'scan' for packages. Make all the other pat

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > Then I ran make zImage (takes awhile!) and it aborted with the following > error: > > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s > make[1]: as86: Command not found > ***[bootsect.o] Error 127 > ***[zImage] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED](pa):bhmit1$ dpkg -S as

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
First of all, thanks to everyone who responded. Using dpkg is just what I needed to do. However, I now have run into a new problem. I've installed the gcc, binutils, make and patch packages and their dependancies. I patched the 2.0.35 kernal. I followed the instructions at the kernal.org web

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: : >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : > : >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is : >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You can always (under win95) go to the debian ftp site and download any .deb package, then boot linux and mount the windows partition. Then cd to the directory with the .deb and do a dpkg -i filename.deb. My system has a windows partition, and I have that listed in my /etc/fstab so it is mounted

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/28/98 at 12:53 PM, "Jerry E. McGoveran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is >apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the >installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: > >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > > > >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is > >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of >

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of >> the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Andy Kennedy
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is > apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of > the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. > menu too fast to read anything. I finish