Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-15 Thread Mark Whaite
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > > Canadians wanted de

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > Canadians wanted dead or alive tipped the vote from 49/50 to 51/50 in > favor of becoming a U

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:18:16AM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 09:40, Rowland Fellows wrote: > > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > > downloaded from Oregon State. However, once installed, the system goes > > directly into a login screen from

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:25:14AM -0800, Rowland Fellows wrote: > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > downloaded from Oregon State. Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread alex
If I understand your problem correctly, this might help: log in with regular user name su (enter root's password) cat /etc/gdm/gdm.conf Look through the list for 'AllowRoot=_' If it says 'false', run an editor and change it to 'true'. Then save. Alex Rowland Fellows wrote: I am able t

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. Februar 2003 16:25 schrieb Rowland Fellows: > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > downloaded from Oregon State. However, once installed, the system goes > directly into a login screen from which I cannot l

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:25:14AM -0800, Rowland Fellows wrote: > However, once installed, the system goes > directly into a login screen from which I cannot login into root. What happens when you try and login as root? [on console] by default you can login as root on console or by ssh [as long a

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-14 Thread Craig Jackson
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 09:40, Rowland Fellows wrote: > I am able to install 3.0 successfully from the disk images I've > downloaded from Oregon State. However, once installed, the system goes > directly into a login screen from which I cannot login into root. How > to I get the system to boot in s

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-09 Thread FAName
I'm no expert on this either but try these settings: /dev/hdn ->instead of n you select b, c or d Why so? go here: http://www.debian.de/releases/slink/i386/install and look in section 4.3 maybe this helps On 7 May 1999 16:38:36 +0200, Sudhir P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >Please excuse m

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-08 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Sudhir P wrote > Hi, > > Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not > being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have > tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now). > > My present set up: > -- > I have

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread Michael Procario
On a i586 system, your cdrom is probably connected to the second IDE controller and it will be on /dev/hdc or less likely /dev/hdd. Try using that during the installation. /dev/cdrom is usually a link that points to /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. If Redhat works, boot into Redhat and look at /etc/fstab.

Re: Newbie: Installation problems

1999-05-07 Thread John Foster
Sudhir P wrote: > > Hi, > > Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not > being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have > tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now). > > My present set up: > -- > I have an i

Re: Newbie installation problems

1998-10-17 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Rebecca; I am a newbie too, I am also switching from W95 to Debian. I installed Debian from a floppy set and its smooth -- no problem at all or alternatively if you like, you can install it from your hard disk. Files to get if from floppy: (asumming your floppy is 3.5" 1.44M

Re: Newbie installation problems

1998-10-17 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Rebecca: I am not a 100% certain but I think there are some problems with the cheap bytes distribution. If you can, create a boot floppy. The tools should be in the tools section of the CD you have. hint rawrite2. I have installed cheap bytes using a floppy and the provided CD. Boot from fl