Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread Felix Miata
John Covici composed on 2022-06-18 04:21 (UTC-0400): > Hi. I just installed Debian Bullseye on a refurbished computer which > I am going to use as a voip server. Now, due to my ignorance, at the > very end of the install, I selected to use #12 which said standard > system items. > Well, to my h

Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread John Covici
Thanks everyone, this is what I think I will do, just use network/interfaces. On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 08:00:27 -0400, Anssi Saari wrote: > > John Covici writes: > > > So, how can I either get back to /etc/network/interfaces > > This should be simple enough. Uninstall NetworkManager, package > netw

Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread Anssi Saari
John Covici writes: > So, how can I either get back to /etc/network/interfaces This should be simple enough. Uninstall NetworkManager, package network-manager, edit /etc/network/interfaces as you like. The networking.service is used to run ifup and ifdown to configure and reconfigure the network

Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread John Covici
I did not get that tasksel at all, at the end of the install I had 12 choices, 11 was ssh server and 12 was standard system components and by mistake I chose 12. I cannot use the gui, I need speech to read the screen and I don't want all that bloat running on a voip server. What if I just put a st

Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 04:21:35AM -0400, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I just installed Debian Bullseye on a refurbished computer which > I am going to use as a voip server. Now, due to my ignorance, at the > very end of the install, I selected to use #12 which said standard > system items. > > Well

Re: new install: configuring ethernet strangeness

2022-06-18 Thread john doe
On 6/18/2022 10:21 AM, John Covici wrote: Hi. I just installed Debian Bullseye on a refurbished computer which I am going to use as a voip server. Now, due to my ignorance, at the very end of the install, I selected to use #12 which said standard system items. Well, to my horror, I got gnome w

Re: New Install Boots to Grub

2019-12-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/12/2019 à 16:55, Dr. Jason Amerson a écrit : Hello, I installed Debian 10.2.0 from a USB drive and the installation finished without errors. The only thing that happened during install is that it was unable to setup the network. Anyways, I removed the USB drive and rebooted the computer

Re: New Install Boots to Grub

2019-12-16 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:56 AM Dr. Jason Amerson wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian 10.2.0 from a USB drive and the installation finished > without errors. The only thing that happened during install is that it was > unable to setup the network. Anyways, I removed the USB drive and rebooted

Re: New install of buster, worked fine with regular monitor, garbled display but with good mouse pointer when connected to AV setup

2019-08-14 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:26:49 +0100 Phil Reynolds wrote: > I recently installed buster on a machine so that I could install kodi > on it for the purpose of playing Internet content on my lounge AV > setup. It all worked fine with a regular monitor. > > On trying to get it connected to the AV setu

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 15 June 2018 02:28:35 David Christensen wrote: > On 06/14/18 01:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm seeing, at newegg et all, what is said to be a 3d nand that > > seems to be the higher capacity drive, 240 GB etc, for prices in the > > $90 range. But you are mentioning PCIe. Is SATA about t

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread David Christensen
On 06/14/18 01:52, Gene Heskett wrote: I'm seeing, at newegg et all, what is said to be a 3d nand that seems to be the higher capacity drive, 240 GB etc, for prices in the $90 range. But you are mentioning PCIe. Is SATA about to be replaced, and I'll have to locate yet another motherboard to keep

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 05:00:34 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 06/11/2018 04:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2018 06:40:41 Mirko Parthey wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives >

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/11/2018 04:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 June 2018 06:40:41 Mirko Parthey wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives hooked up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data f

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 01:03:12 David Christensen wrote: > On 06/10/18 21:35, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: > >> On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupyi

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-13 Thread David Christensen
On 06/10/18 21:35, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the /dev/sdc slot. What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot,

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 June 2018 06:40:41 Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives > > hooked up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data > > from the other drives. > > Once you

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives hooked > up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data from the > other drives. Once your Debian installation is finished, put this in /etc/default/gru

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: > On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the > > /dev/sdc slot. > > > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, > > /, and s

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 June 2018 23:41:36 Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2018, at 1:44 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > > the /dev/sdc slot. > > > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /hom

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 June 2018 20:55:11 Charlie S wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:44:16 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > > the /dev/sdc slot. > > > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, > > /

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread David Christensen
On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying the /dev/sdc slot. What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, and swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other drive currently mounted, and 2

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 June 2018 20:23:49 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > > the /dev/sdc slot. > > > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot,

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jun 10, 2018, at 1:44 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > the /dev/sdc slot. > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, and > swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other d

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Charlie S
On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:44:16 -0400 Gene Heskett sent: > Greetings all; > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > the /dev/sdc slot. > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, > and swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any other driv

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupying > the /dev/sdc slot. > > What I want, since the drive has been partitioned to /boot, /home, /, and > swap, is 1; for this install to not touch any ot

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 30 October 2016 15:47:59 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 10:35:59AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > On 10/30/16, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 30/10/2016 à 13:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > >> On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > >>> The resul

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 10:35:59AM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/30/16, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 30/10/2016 à 13:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > >> On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>> > >>> The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point. > >> > >

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/30/16, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/10/2016 à 13:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : >> On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> >>> The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point. >> >> I have Jessie fully updated and aptitude can't find bootinfoscript. > > How di

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 30 October 2016 13:32:27 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/10/2016 à 13:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point. > > > > I have Jessie fully updated and aptitude can't find booti

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/10/2016 à 13:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point. I have Jessie fully updated and aptitude can't find bootinfoscript. How did you search ? It is a command, not a package name.

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/10/2016 à 19:22, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > > Is there more information that you need to help me? > > The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point. I have Jessie fully updated and aptitude can't find bootinfoscript.

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Felix Miata
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2016-10-06 20:30 (UTC+0200): ...if the OP followed the openSUSE installer defaults, the root filesystem is btrfs and can be shrinked while mounted. That depends on which openSUSE he installed, data he didn't provide. BTRFS became default between 13.2 and 42.1 relea

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/10/2016 à 20:12, Felix Miata a écrit : No Linux distro needs more than a tiny fraction of a 750G HD. Wise people would never use all 750 GB for a single OS if it does not need to contain as many data. Once booted into Jessie you can shrink the openSUSE installation to a more reasonab

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/10/2016 à 19:22, Mark Neidorff a écrit : Is there more information that you need to help me? The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point.

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Felix Miata
Mark Neidorff composed on 2016-10-06 13:22 (UTC-0400): I'm building a server PC to perform backups of the PCs on my local network. The server has 2 HDDs--750 Gb and 2 Tb. The intention is to use the 750 Gb drive for the OS and the 2 Tb drive for the backup data. I'll get there in stages. I'll

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 16:06:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > That's quite all right, it's not something that's really important > unless the non-full installs don't include screenreader support > durinig the actual install, which they probably don't. You don't even > have to ask your friend. If yo

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
That's quite all right, it's not something that's really important unless the non-full installs don't include screenreader support durinig the actual install, which they probably don't. You don't even have to ask your friend. If you happen to have a copy of the distro handy, boot it, and tell me if

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:39:37 Steve Matzura wrote: > Step 14 is "Install additional software." If the net install works > with speech, then I can do it. Without speech output from the built-in > screenreader, it's of no use to me without sighted assistance, which I > do not have. Sorry.

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
Step 14 is "Install additional software." If the net install works with speech, then I can do it. Without speech output from the built-in screenreader, it's of no use to me without sighted assistance, which I do not have. On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:28:52 +1300, you wrote: >On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:28:52 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I > > just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there > > anything I should ch

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I > just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there > anything I should choose or specify differently when trying again? I don't know what step

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Matzura
So since my installation is virgin and is failing at Step 14, should I just start again and see if I get any further this time, or is there anything I should choose or specify differently when trying again?

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-29 Thread Steve Matzura
No to both, as neither of those options appear in the install script. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:35:38 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted >partition? The first adjustment asks more questions and the second >preserves logs if something blo

Re: New Install Fails at Step 14

2015-12-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Did you set message priority to low and set logs to save to a mounted partition? The first adjustment asks more questions and the second preserves logs if something blows up. I think you can even have the logs saved to floppy disk too. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, Steve Matzura wrote: Date: Tue, 2

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 02 Oct 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:22:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, > > it should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. > > That depends on whether the OP configured a root pa

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 01 oct 14, 19:22:25, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > You need to be root for synaptic to work. When you start synaptic, it > should ask you to enter the root -- not your user -- password. That depends on whether the OP configured a root password during installation. If not the password of the

Re: New install from DVD (via USB flashdrive)

2014-10-01 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 01 Oct 2014, Alan E. Davis wrote: > After many years, I have finally gotten a working Debian install. It > looks ok, but there are a few issues. Years? Why did it take you years? > The installation media handling of wifi-connections was not > transparent, but it worked fine. I had to

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch - SOLVED

2013-12-05 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:30:02 +0100, Frank Miles wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:20:02 +0100, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > [snip] > >> I have similar motherboard - ASUS H87-PRO, but a very kind man >> explained to me on this list that Haswell video won't work with Wheezy >> so I'm going to use my

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:20:02 +0100, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: [snip] > I have similar motherboard - ASUS H87-PRO, but a very kind man explained > to me on this list that Haswell video won't work with Wheezy so I'm > going to use my old Radeon video until Jessie become stable. > > In my opinion yo

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/27/2013 09:22 PM, Frank Miles wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Frank Miles wrote: but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:00:03 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Frank Miles wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Frank Miles wrote: >> > > but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system >> > > would crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would >> > > crash >> > >> > What g

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Miles wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Frank Miles wrote: > > > but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would > > > crash. In addition, shutdown would only start, then it would crash > > > > What graphics card do you have there? > > There is no graphics card - the C

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-27 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:30:02 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Frank Miles wrote: >> This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel >> i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... >> but if I switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would >

Re: New install (intel) can't video mode-switch

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank Miles wrote: > This is insane. I have a new system with an Asus H87M-Pro MB, an intel > i4770t. Fresh install of wheezy. Things seemed mostly functional... but if I > switched out of X to a terminal (Alt-Ctrl-Fn) the system would crash. In > addition, shutdown would only start, then it wou

Re: new install - not booting solved - but questions remain

2013-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Fidelman wrote: > So problem is solved but 2 questions remain: > - what's going on? > - why didn't the installer put things in the right places? I read your posting but don't understand it. > Basic setup: > - PXEboot into installer You have set up a PXEboot on your network? That is sophis

Re: new install - not booting solved - but questions remain

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAID

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info, and yet more

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mou

Re: new install - not booting, a little more info

2013-08-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just did a new install of Wheezy on a server, but having problems trying to boot. Basic setup: - PXEboot into installer - a pretty standard install - had to fiddle a little at the end to get the MBR into the right places (RAIDed disks, USB stick mounts as /dev/sda) - now

Re: New install -> Laptop, dual boot with Win7, config with LVM+LUKS fails if the encryption layer is on top of LVM layer

2011-07-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:39:24 +1000, yudi wrote in message : > I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 32bit on a laptop with 750Gb > Advanced Format WD drive. ..if it can run 64-bit Wintendo 7, you wanna install 64-bit Debian Squeeze. > the partition scheme I have in my mind is like this: > > s

Re: new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 07:22 AM, Mélaine Aubin Guifo wrote: Hello, I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions. I would like to know the reason of this change. How big is that drive? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To

Re: new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-16 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-06-15 a las 15:32 -0500, Arthur Machlas escribió: (forwarding to the list) > >> I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed > >> that there is about 1 MB  unallocated between partitions. > > > > How is that? Are you on lenny, squeeze...? > > > > As root, type "f

Re: new install and 1 MB between partitions

2010-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:22:24 +0200, Mélaine Aubin Guifo wrote: > I made a new installation of my Debian system two days ago and noticed > that there is about 1 MB unallocated between partitions. How is that? Are you on lenny, squeeze...? As root, type "fdisk -l" and put here the output. > I

Re: New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-21 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi list, > Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from > 2 > days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more > trouble: > No way to enter the system as a user, login fail

Re: New install from businesscard distro.

2007-09-21 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sep 21, 2:50 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: <> > > > > 4. On startup my eth0 card which is connected to the internet isn't > > activated by dhcpcd. I can click on the little icon in the upper > > right c

Re: New install from businesscard distro.

2007-09-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 21, 2:50 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I successfully installed Debian from the latest business card iso. I > chose the networkless option, the only one that works. That is the > good news. But here is the bad news. > > 1. When chose the newtworked install option it a

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-03-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-02-25 17:16:25, schrieb Curt Howland: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been reading your notes to debian-users with interest, and I'd > like to put in .02 FRNs or so. > > I realize that people have suggested lots of "package management" > tools, I would like to

Re: new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Derek M Wickersham
Got it working now. I ended up uninstalling CUPS and printconf, then reinstalling both. Then I went into the Printing Manager and changed the system to CUPS. Since this time around printconf found my printer, it is being displayed as detected. Printed a test page and it works! Thank you! De

Re: new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Derek M Wickersham
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:50 pm, Clyde Wilson wrote: > You might want to run printconf first. Do this: > apt-get install printconf OK, did that, and it installed...then got this at the end: Printer on parallel:/dev/lp0 was detected by Debian using

Re: new install; no printing

2006-02-28 Thread Clyde Wilson
You might want to run printconf first. Do this: apt-get install printconf Then go back to run your CUPS installation. --- Derek M Wickersham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Brand new convert from Redhat to Debian 3.1. Just > about have everything set > up except for the printer. >

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-25 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been reading your notes to debian-users with interest, and I'd like to put in .02 FRNs or so. I realize that people have suggested lots of "package management" tools, I would like to suggest "dselect". The granularity of control is greater, in

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have ne

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have ne

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:12:12PM -0700, Charles wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions > > > >

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:12:12 -0700 "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also did my first > reinstall and watchd it closely. It is said there are Debian users than didn't reinstall in 10 (ten) years. Debian supports direct upgrading from one release to another (stable or not). I remember

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I should 1) Ad

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I should 1) Add the 14 CD's and the two update CD's via "apt-cdrom add", > 2) activate all sources in Synaptic, 3) run "apt-get update" and "apt-get > upgrade" and I'll have an up-to-date system. You need at least: d

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:54 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the &quo

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I > use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to > learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported > ac

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
There are other tools for managing software that are front ends to apt. I primarily use aptitude. It is powerful interactive, and available from the command line. It will take some learning though so you will need to read a significant part of the manual to use it effectively. synaptic is pro

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
> the last thing: to find stuff: > apt-cache search > > cheers, > Kev > and... apt-cache show to show a bit more detailed stuff ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I > use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to > learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported > ac

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-22 Thread Yani Copas
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Kn

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:50:34 -0500 "Roseland, Winton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a > year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not > sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-20 Thread Chinook
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Knopp

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. > > The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat > /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The > system is a c

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running L

RE: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:06 PM To: Ed Young Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > >

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a > /dev/input/mice no device found error. > > I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse > still doesn't work. > I added mousedev to /etc/modules

Re: new install

2005-12-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:32:04 +0100 Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2005/12/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi! > > > > I have now Etch on my system but i want to reinstall with reiser file > > system. > If you have GRUB you could: > 1) back up partition > 2) format with

Re: new install

2005-12-27 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > I have now Etch on my system but i want to reinstall with reiser file > system. If you have GRUB you could: 1) back up partition 2) format with reiserFS 3) restore partition > Is it possible that I choose KDE and not GNOME, which is def

Re: New install, no desktop

2005-09-22 Thread MJD
Just try installing kde or gnome.  Those are meta packages that will install a fully functional desktop.On 9/21/05, ke6isf < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote:> Do I actually have a desktop installed?  And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list

Re: New install, no desktop

2005-09-21 Thread ke6isf
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Albert wrote: > Do I actually have a desktop installed? And how would I invoke it? Go back to the first grub entry that you list, and do 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'. If that doesn't work, you'll need to install the xserver package - and probably gnome or KDE while yo

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I finally installed my first Debian system earlier this morning and I > am very pleased with it. The install was flawless, but it was not > quite as easy as I thought because there were plenty more > questions AF

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/07/05 16:31), Kent West wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > >1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, > >including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work > >fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and > >sound card. Where precisely

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Benjamin Sher: > > 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, > including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work > fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and > sound card. Where precisely are they listed? I am not sure whether it is wha

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed? lspci -v or just lspci . man ls

Re: New install -- MTA mail needs to be reconfigured

2005-07-12 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Sher wrote: 1) All of my devices seem to have been configured correctly, including my sound and video. That is, the video and sound work fine. However, I can't find a specific listing of my video card and sound card. Where precisely are they listed? Try "lspci" or "lspci -v" or ev

RE: New install doesn't see DHCP

2005-06-21 Thread peter green
you see to have multiple adaptors its possible that they changed numbers between installation and the running system. (this tends to happen because modules are loaded in a different order) > -Original Message- > From: Xeno Campanoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 June 2005 01:07 >

Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:09:11PM -0700, Phil Ramey wrote: > Kevin Mark: > > Thanks for replying! > > Attaching my iRiver to my usb2 card gives me this > output in /var/log/messages, do i need to add a > listing in /etc/fstab or sommat? i can't mount it, > there's no listing... > > Apr 22 22:5

Re: Re: new install, sound not working (+2 bonus problems)

2004-04-22 Thread Phil Ramey
Well! With a little poking around and Kevin Mark's advice, I added both the iRiver and the second unrecognized HD to fstab, and got them both working! Very excited about all that. 2 bonus problems, check. Sound... still a no go thanks, all! (hope i'm not a bother) --Phil Ramey --

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