Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 15 October 2004 09:37 am, Eric Wagar wrote: > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > from the initial install? I see a lot of > documentation > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running > from the beginning. > > Thanks > eric Install Sarge, xfs (and ext3) are part

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" What is a "chroot install"? You mean boot Knoppix and the

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:57, linux wrote: > >Use "chroot install" to install the Knoppix to a hard drive. > >Knoppix is based on Debian, so I assume Roberto means "chroot install" > > using just your Knoppix CD, that's it. > >[..] Sylvain. > > I may be missing something, but you suggest to inst

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread linux
Sylvain Vedrenne wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 22:29, Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Boot a Knoppix CD

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
On Friday 15 October 2004 22:29, Eric Wagar wrote: > > > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > > > from the initial install? I see a lot of > > > documentation > > > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them > > > > running > > > > > from the beginning. > > > > Boot a Knoppix CD an

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
> > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > > from the initial install? I see a lot of > > documentation > > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them > running > > from the beginning. > > Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" What is a "chroot install"? You mean boot Knoppi

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Eric Wagar wrote: How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Thanks eric Boot a Knoppix CD and do a "chroot install" -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:37:22 -0700 (PDT), Eric Wagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems > from the initial install? I see a lot of > documentation > on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running > from the beginning. > > Thanks > eric > > -- > To

Install/Upgrade/Use ext3 or xfs

2004-10-15 Thread Eric Wagar
How do I install and use ext3 or xfs filesystems from the initial install? I see a lot of documentation on how to convert, but I'd like to get them running from the beginning. Thanks eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-07 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: I remembered that I had the suse's 8.1 CDs here and that it supported ReiserFS (actually it was the one proposed by default). So I booted with them, typed reiserfsck --rebuil-tree /dev/hda5 and voila. I still got the errors from dpkg but it didn't stop, it continued the

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-07 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
YES! Sorry for that, couldn't help it... So I managed to get dpkg back on track. I tried to load the fifth debian cd so as to get access to fsck without having my root partition mounted. Thing is that there is only e2fsck available so I couldn't. Then I realized (and I'm pretty ashamed of it! :) t

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:53, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't > work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would > be great but I have 2 problems : > 1) I don't know where I could get those files > 2) even

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to replace one of the broken f

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive that this message is in any way related to my problem : "ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0" Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting e

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
The first time I runned it, it said something like that (sorry forgot), but it now says : /dev/hda1: clean, 30/8032 files, 11794/32098 blocks the 30 above means there are 30 corrupted files no ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive that this message is in any way related to my problem : "ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0" Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting everything except /, well i

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:37, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. > From:"Papadopoulos Alexis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date:Thu, November 6, 2

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Actually ls is in /bin/ for me. It doesn't change anything. I'm positive now that the problem is due to the fs, some weird messages appear in the boot process, What are the messages? Strange though, I'm using ReiserFS, are these I've never used ReiserFS, so am unfamilia

[Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Original Message Subject: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. From:"Papadopoulos Alexis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Thu, November 6, 2003 3:33 pm To: "Kent We

Correction: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that... I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info Here are the first lines : ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory Oops, correction. Try "/bin/ls -l", no "/usr/bin/ls -l".

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that... I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info Here are the first lines : ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory ls: klipper.list: No such file or directory ls: reading

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that... I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info Here are the first lines : ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory ls: libatk1.0-0.list: No such file or directory ls: swat.postinst: No such file or di

Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Hi there! Just yesterday I've finished installing Debian linux (Sarge). I decided to install flash plugin for mozilla, apt-get it (dependency made me download ruby and libruby). The libruby installation failed since my system hanged up (), no way to kill X, no way to get access to console, anyt

Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Original Message Subject: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. From:"Papadopoulos Alexis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Thu, November 6, 2003 12:56 pm To:

RE: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Hi There. I am new to the list and new to debian. I want to install debian 3.0 r0 from cds that i have, and have a few questions. The update process: > Automagically. > $ su -m > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgrade I assume these are examples of how to update within a distro and to upgrade

Re: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* john walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [31-03-2003 17:28]: > I currently run RedHat (7.3), but am thinking about switching to > Debian because of the upgrade nature of RH. Since you are currently running an old RH system (old if version-numbering has a meaning), this is not likely to be a problem for yo

Re: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:43:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > apt maybe, but you've always been able to upgrade from one release to > the next. It was more work before hamm, but still possible. True enough. Apt first appeared sometime around hamm.

Re: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:13:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:40:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes, Debian has been able to do this since pretty much the beginning of > > time. > > For some values of the beginning of time roughly equal hamm. apt maybe, but you'

Re: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:06:29PM +0100, john walsh wrote: > With Debian - how does the process of keeping the packages/system > updated work ? Automagically. $ su -m # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade Go get some coffee while apt works it's m

Re: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:40:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Yes, Debian has been able to do this since pretty much the beginning of > time. For some values of the beginning of time roughly equal hamm. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:06:29PM +0100, john walsh wrote: > I currently run RedHat (7.3), but am thinking about switching to > Debian because of the upgrade nature of RH. > > With Debian - how does the process of keeping the packages/system > updated work ? You should be able to find answers he

install/upgrade

2003-03-31 Thread john walsh
Hi, I currently run RedHat (7.3), but am thinking about switching to Debian because of the upgrade nature of RH. With Debian - how does the process of keeping the packages/system updated work ? On RedHat, I use up2date, which is excellent, except that it won't upgrade me from my current channel (7

MY DEBIAN INSTALL/UPGRADE METHOD [was Re: postgresql-test... NOT]

2000-04-14 Thread w trillich
in case it's useful, here's my crach-course of hard-knocks on HOW TO GET A PACKAGE OPERATIONAL in debian these days (i.e. april 2000--of course, with code being added all the time, debian changes by the minute and this may become obsolete next tuesday--or seven years from now...) Oliver Elphick

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well this works for people that use the "old" init-style with links in > > > /etc/rc* and won't work for people li

Re: [bug] Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-28 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Do we have a generic way to test whether a daemon is enabled for > > a given runlevel? That is -- one that works with filerc as well > > as sysvinit? > Not yet. At some point debconf will provide that information. I don't see, how debconf can r

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Greg Stark wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well this works for people that use the "old" init-style with links in > > > /etc/rc* and won't work for people like me that use file-rc. Please > > > provide first a solution for both cases. Then we can sen

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

1999-12-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 03:59:46PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I sometimes wish we could settle on some of these key technologies, > > like the two rc schemes, and inetd versus xinetd. It would make a lot > > of things similar. Imagine if we had two men