Re: Problems installing Debian

2021-02-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:00:09 -0800 "M.R.P. zensky" wrote: > One problem that I am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I > use a network card. I don’t I use home based wifi which I don’t see > an option for this. Debian considers wifi to be just another network card. However, many wifi

Re: Problems installing Debian

2021-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Sat 20 Feb 2021 at 16:00:09 (-0800), M.R.P. zensky wrote: > Hello I have successfully installed ubuntu linux on my system but I want to > use Debian. I download the iso file from their home page. One problem that I > am having is the Debian install menu asks for if I use a network card. I >

Re: Problems installing Debian

2021-02-20 Thread IL Ka
If Debian can't detect your network card, I suggest using Debian DVD iso to install Debian, and then deal with the network card. https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/ You need "debian-10.8.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso". It can be used to install Debian without a network connection. You

Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC

2008-04-10 Thread Dan Turk
Thanks to those of you who sent ideas on solving this problem. I only tried one idea - get the daily unstable / testing build. I downloaded the amd64-netinst build from yesterday, Apr 9, and it recognized the NIC with no problem. I still have some things to get configured, but it could ta

Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:56:10AM -0400, mike wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: >> >>> I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing >>> debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the >>> debian

Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC

2008-04-10 Thread mike
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Ca

Re: Problems installing debian on Dell 530 with unrecognized NIC

2008-04-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote: > I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a > Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does > not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card. > > A couple questi

Re: Problems installing Debian 4.0

2007-08-20 Thread Sven Joachim
Alexander Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install a Debian from a 4.0r0 netinst CD-Image. The > installation fails reproducibly, however. > > I believe that this is due to the package file_4.17-etch2 being > present on both the regular distribution server and the security > serv

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146526816 past the epoch, Piers Kittel wrote: > Anyway, I've put the old 3GB hard drive back in, installed > Windows 98 on, and Debian boots up (with the default 2.6 > kernel with no parameters whatsover) and installing fine > right now without any problems. Probably some BIOS > limitation wit

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-05-01 Thread Piers Kittel
To those who helped me, Thanks very much for all your advice, but I've tried all options to disable everything but they're kernel parameters which aren't taken in consideration that early I think? It stops exactly at the point right after uncompressing the kernel - it looks like a bit like tr

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-17 Thread Bruno Buys
On 4/17/06, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Piers Kittel wrote:> Andrei & Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500>>> Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>> Piers Kittel wrote:> When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to> install, it> won't work at

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Lale
Piers Kittel wrote: Andrei & Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Andrei & Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one.

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Mitja Podreka
Piers Kittel wrote: [sic] When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: == Booting from CD-ROM ISOLINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot: Loading /install/vml

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Piers Kittel wrote: > > > When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it > won't work at all: > > I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the > Sarge r0 one. It m

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-14 Thread Adam Porter
Piers Kittel wrote: > When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Gray
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 Derek Chew En-Hock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as > I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use > Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't > reboot)... This seemed to be the

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Oliver, good to hear from you again... let me get you straight, first I repeat the Debian Installation as I previously did from the original Woody CDs (Boot of CD, Use Modules Floppy to access RAID Array, Install Debian but don't reboot)... then what I need to do is to transfer a copy of t

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hello Oliver, Great to hear from you!! so this CONFIG_SCSI_DPT_I2O is a kernel option I have to include eh? How do I specify this? In the Kernel Config area of the Debian Setup? I can see the RAID array after I add in the modules using the floppy disc created by http://people.debian.org/~blade/in

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
You wrote: > ..Oliver, would your boot image cover software raid setups too? And > install from network? Say from a lan mirror? If so, image url? ;-) Sorry; it was a specific build for a hardware RAID machine. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight,

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:39:48 +0100, Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:11, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: > > With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and > > it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and install

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:11, Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: > With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it > automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I > guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current > abilities... > > Does anyone k

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-08 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
With a heavy heart, I attempted install Redhat 9 on my machine and it automatically detected the Adaptec 2400A and installed flawlessly... I guess installing Debian on this machine maybe beyond my current abilities... Does anyone know of a way I can extract the drivers from the Redhat disc or boo

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-07 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Hey Guys, I still having big problems with this machine... I tried redoing the setup again this time using EXT3 for the root partition incase I messed up something else but still no go... did quite a fair bit of google groups searching but no one else seems to have this issue... don't tell me I ha

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5 array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Derek Chew En-Hock
Its actually a ATA RAID Card which uses DPTI2O Drivers... and I know its bootable as the machine used to be running Microsoft Small Business Server and it used the RAID Array as a boot disc... another thing is the Adaptec Diagnostic CD uses a strip down version of Linux to run... so I know that

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some qui

Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.

2001-08-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 09 2001, David Randelman wrote: > 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a > dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the > beginning of the disk just in case. Which version of Debian are you trying to use? I think that if the kernel

Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.

2001-08-09 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:01:36PM +0300, David Randelman wrote: > I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq > M700, there seems to be 2 problems: 1) It won't install a boot > manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried > to partition a 10MB drive in

Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
o: > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:14 PM > Subject: Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700. > > > > Do you have "helpfull" boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of > > the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? Yo

Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Heldebrant
Do you have "helpfull" boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? You'll need parport and a bunch of other ones. The kernel menuconfig should be able to explain it to you better than I can pull it out of a hat. --mike On 09 A

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-25 Thread Kenneth Scharf
There is one more thing. On 286's and above when in real mode, if the segment register is set to 0x then the address's above 0x will overflow into address bit a20 giving access to an additional 65k(-16 bytes) of memory in real mode. This was known as 'hi-mem' access and dos 4.0 and abo

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-25 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, G. Crimp wrote: > The A20 line has something to do with working around a bug in memory > addressing that first showed up in 286's I think. I don't really know much > about it, but on my 486, their is an option in the BIOS to set the line. > You might try changing this

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-25 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: > > other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the > > root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message > > "A20 gate not responding!"... > [snip] > > The problem machine is a 486DX3

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486 Date: Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:43:47AM +1200 In reply to:Matthew Gregan Quoting Matthew Gregan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: > >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and

Re: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-24 Thread frankie
Matthew Gregan wrote: > > At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: > >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the > >> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message > >> "A20 gate not responding!"... I can't answer your question

RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-23 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 15:03 1999-03-23 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: >> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the >> root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message >> "A20 gate not responding!"... >[snip] >> The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, i

RE: Problems installing Debian on a 486

1999-03-23 Thread Alan Bailward
> other machine, it brings up the boot: prompt, and then starts to load the > root FS from root.bin.. After loading for a while it fails with the message > "A20 gate not responding!"... [snip] > The problem machine is a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, if you need more info > about the hardware, please let

Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread PJBarbera
Had this problem with the Solaris 2.6, I ended up playing with the memory timing settings, set them slower. Just an idea... Peter Barbera Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange > problems during installation from floppys is often attri

Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread Alexander Bugeja
Thanks for your reply. However I tried 3 different floppies, all without success - none of them has bad sectors either. I really don't think this is a floppy problem. Alex. > I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange > problems during installation from floppys is ofte

Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread Michael B. Taylor
I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest rem

Re: Problems installing Debian from 1.3.1 CDROM

1998-02-18 Thread Jonas
Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry, but my original message was a bit corrupted. Heres what it should have said: > I'm trying to install debian from the Official 1.3.1 distribution, > unfortunately the setup routines cannot mount my cdrom. > > The CDROM is detected (as /dev/hdd) but when it

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the > > Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root > > partition of your hard disk (the /d

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > If you are using OS/2 Boot Manager, you should NOT select the 'Make the > Hard Disk Bootable' option. Instead you should install LILO on the root > partition of your hard disk (the /dev/sdb7 partition should be made > bootable, however

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 15, 1997 at 01:12:33PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > 2. Compiling a Custom Kernel > > I ran 'make menuconfig' in /usr/src/linux. I can't change the Soundblaster > > Settings (Base Adress, IRQ, Hi and Low-DMA...). There is allways the > > message 'You entered an invalid value'. > > > >

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Lawrence Chim
Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > > > Hi everybody! > > > > I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 > > problems: > > > > 1. Installation. > > > > Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. > > There w

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 > problems: > > 1. Installation. > > Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. > There was an error message like 'Can't install li

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-15 Thread Peter Weiss
Sorry fellows, my mail reader set a "CC: "to the list which I didn't see :-( -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstraße 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp ---

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-15 Thread Peter Weiss
> On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:43:00 +0200, Joerg Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Joerg> Hi everybody! Joerg> I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 Joerg> problems: Joerg> 1. Installation. Joerg> Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Di

Re: Problems installing Debian 1.3

1997-06-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm new to Debian. Yesterday I tried to install Debian 1.3, and I got 2 > problems: > > 1. Installation. > > Everythig workes fine, until I selected 'Make the Hard Disk Bootable'. > There was an error message like 'Can't install li