Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-27 Thread mizuki
Apparently someone updated the netboot.tar.gz yesterday and new kernel worked out well, and once again I'm able to install Jessie. I think what probably happened was a lot of packages being updated on Mar 9th for the base-system install, the kernel in netboot perhaps wasn't up-to-date? Thank for r

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150325_1530-0400, mizuki wrote: > Hi, > > Since Mar 10th, I seem to have trouble installing Debian testing on a > virtual machine or a physical machine, always fails at step 'Partition > disk' with partman, it complains: > > The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0),

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/25/2015 12:30 PM, mizuki wrote: > The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0), > partition #1 (sda) at / failed. You may resume partitioning from > the partitioning menu. > I've never had this problem and honestly ha

Re: Trouble installing Debian 3.0 on P166 system

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Denver Coneybeare said: > > I am having a strange problem installing Debian 3.0 on an old P166 > computer. The installation goes smoothly but after it reboots > something goes wrong. After running fsck I get the message > > "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." I h

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
Glenn Murray wrote: > The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, > viz.: > > drivers.tgz > install.bat > linux [cut] > My question is: how do I use the files above with the installation CDs so > that the installation program can find the hard drive? Well, I've never ins

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Glenn Murray
My understanding now is that I have a Promise Technology card for an ultra-ATA/66 (IDE) interface, and I need a Linux driver for this card. The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, viz.: drivers.tgz install.bat linux but no Readme, so I am a little at a loss. The drive

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
> > Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital > > IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing > > is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains > > why setup doesn't see it. > > Which setup? Debian's installer or

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
Please use postfix followup. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:19:36PM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 Karsten M. Self wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to in

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Glenn Murray
Thanks for the reply. Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains why setup doesn't see it. Besides the information below,

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on two graduate students' machines. The > install boots from the CD but is unable to find the hard drive. > > The machines are: > > Dell Dimension XPS T800r, BIOS v

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, If I remember right, some IBM PS1s have trouble booting Linux; I never saw it in any of the doc

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Chris Acheson wrote: > > I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, > 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 I have my 486/DX4 running on slink; did that aprox. two days ago. The only problem I encountered was that the resc. floppy changed

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, > 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 > partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press > enter at the "boot:" prompt. There is some disk activity for a few > seconds, a

RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
o: Brian Morgan > Subject: Re: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: > > An addendum to my 2 previous posts. > > > > I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK, > > inst

RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
long time, though). Any suggestions as to how to boot from hard disk? Thanks again Brian > -Original Message- > From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:08 PM > To: Debian User Group > Subject: RE: trouble installing debian (any v

RE: trouble installing debian (any version)

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink disks with the same results "problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz" Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? I created a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. I'm not s

Re: TROUBLE INSTALLING DEBIAN LINUX

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Mickelberry, Travis L wrote: > WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL LINUX EVERYTHING GOES FINE UNTIL I HAVE TO REBOOT > THE MACHINE...I MADE A BOOT FLOPPY AND IT TELLS ME TO LEAVE IT IN...SO > THEN I REBOOT AND IT SAYS LOADING LINUX...THEN IT SAY UNCOMPESSING LINUX > AND IT GET STUCK AND JUS

Re: Trouble installing debian from floppy

1996-11-25 Thread Bruce Perens
> crc error <5>VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER. CRC error means a physical bad block on the floppy. It's attempting to read the compressed root filesystem at this point. If that fails, nothing will work the next time it prompts for ENTER, as it then tries to read an uncompressed root files