install probs (partially was: installing debian on home network_

2005-09-24 Thread michael
Further to: > I'm sure this has been covered before but I can't find it in the > archives so all pointers welcomed! > > I've a Debian box (2.6, unstable) connected to the Internet via USB > Broadband modem (I'm in the UK). ie it's nto a router/modem but the mobo > does have a network port. > > I'v

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 13:47, Wim De Smet wrote: > I'm not sure (don't use sata), but this seems an interesting resource > to start on: > http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html That did it. Thanks so much. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 13:47, Wim De Smet wrote: > I'm not sure (don't use sata), but this seems an interesting resource > to start on: > http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html Very interesting. All I've done so far is read it, but thanks much. > >From the looks of it, that other debian

Re: install probs

2004-12-24 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:37:01 -0700, Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a testing net install a few days ago. The system is 2.4.27 kernel, > P4, 1G RAM, SCSI2 disk, IDE disk, SATA disk, RME soundcard, intel i810 > video. > > No probs with SCSI or parallel IDE, but the SATA disk doesn'

install probs

2004-12-23 Thread Glenn English
I did a testing net install a few days ago. The system is 2.4.27 kernel, P4, 1G RAM, SCSI2 disk, IDE disk, SATA disk, RME soundcard, intel i810 video. No probs with SCSI or parallel IDE, but the SATA disk doesn't seem to exist after boot (off the SCSI disk). The BIOS sees it, and the DeMudi system

AfterStep install probs NEARLY solved...

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I moved my untarred themes from ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes to /home/adam/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes and clicked on 'Start-->Desktop-->Update StartMenu' when they showed in the 'Desktop-->Theme' menu but clicking on the theme directoriess just shows me the sub-files and does not

AfterStep theme install probs.

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Bogacki
I downloaded and untarred a number of themes in ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes/[themename] but have been unable to open them after updatingAfterStep's theme menu via Start-->Desktop-->Update Startmenu and selecting Start-->Desktop-->Theme I'm conscious of two errors ... (1) Unfamiliar with

AfterStep theme install probs

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Bogacki
Sorry about the forwarding format but the original did not get through, for some reason. Cheers, Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Begin Message --- I downloaded and untarred a number of themes in ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/themes/[themename] but have been unable to open them after updatingA

Re: Blackbox theme install probs.

2003-08-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:09:15AM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: > (1) Is this correct ? Apparently there are only two files > in each Blackbox tarball - background image and style files. That would be correct. > Yet for my system ... > Tux:~/.blackbox# ls > backgrounds menu styles If that's

Blackbox theme install probs.

2003-08-02 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, (1) Is this correct ? Apparently there are only two files in each Blackbox tarball - background image and style files.

Re: WM theme install probs.

2003-07-28 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:34:31 +1000 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > >After genmenu runs, you cannot edit it manually, it has to be done > >through wmakerconf. > > > >BTW, why are you running as root? Not a good idea, too many bad > >things can happen, If you ru

WM theme install probs.

2003-07-27 Thread Adam Bogacki
Rodney D. Myers wrote: After genmenu runs, you cannot edit it manually, it has to be done through wmakerconf. BTW, why are you running as root? Not a good idea, too many bad things can happen, If you run as a "normal' user, the worse that can happen, is just screwing up one account, your way is to

Re: woody isos,stuff (& Lee's x-install probs)

2002-01-08 Thread lee
> Linuxiso.org now has woody isos up on their site. Don't know when they > posted them but I emailed them about a month ago when I was sorting > through a pile of 'where can I get woody iso' postings and now, tada! > > Also on a random note I was cleaning up and found a useful white paper > from i

Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-14 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
try the drivers and the diagnostic stuff on www.scyld.com, it helped me a lot. it's the site of the official mantainer of most of the nic drivers. pietro.

Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-13 Thread Alexander Gutfraind \(Sasha\)
There is a peculiar problem with this card: I believe its ID has changed, and hence the driver included in 2.2.X kernel does not work with it any longer. You need to upgrade to 2.4.2-ac series kernel. More details are available: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0103/msg00507.html Although I

Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Are you using the via-rhine driver? Do you have to use pci-scan.o too? via-rhine.o on kernel 2.2.17. no trace of pci-scan in the source tree! never tried 2.2.18 yet.

Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-13 Thread Julian Church
At 13:49 13/03/01 +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: if you cat /proc/pci you'll probably see the nic has no irq configured. try to tell the bios you DON'T have a pnp operating system. it took me days to find out!!! (same nic) hope it helps Cheers Pietro cat /proc/pci tells me that the card has IR

Re: D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-13 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/via-rhine.o : Init_module : device or resource > busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/via-rhine.o : insmod > /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/net/via-rhine.o failed if you

D-Link DFE-530-TX NIC install probs.

2001-03-13 Thread Julian Church
I hope that this is the right list for a question like this. Please forgive the newbie if not. I'm having problems getting my D-Link DFE-530-TX network card to work with Debian. I've seen a few posts on this subject on various mailing list archives (including this one) so am pretty sure my c

Re: Gateway E-4200 install probs

1999-10-05 Thread Kent West
"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > > Steve, you're also likely to run into problems with the > > Rage128-based video card if you install X. You can download a > > driver from www.suse.com, which worked for me. > > Kent, the NIC problem was easy to fix using the advice given. However, > I'm having more di

Re: Gateway E-4200 install probs

1999-10-05 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Kent West wrote: > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > I'm trying to install slink on a Gateway E-4200 (PIII 400). This is > > > a testbed install, eventually to be an entire lab. I've had no problems > > > installing to an older E-3200 (PII 300). > > > > > > The problem is that the network card (3COM 3c9

Re: Gateway E-4200 install probs

1999-09-28 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Kent West wrote: > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > > Steve, I can let you know what I have learned -- > > > > the 3c59x.c file included with the kernel (even 2.2.12) is old and out of > > date. You need to go to Donald Becker's webpage (cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov, iirc) > > and download the 0.99L or newer v

Re: Gateway E-4200 install probs

1999-09-28 Thread Kent West
Seth R Arnold wrote: > > Steve, I can let you know what I have learned -- > > the 3c59x.c file included with the kernel (even 2.2.12) is old and out of > date. You need to go to Donald Becker's webpage (cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov, iirc) > and download the 0.99L or newer version of the 3c59x.c file, rep

Re: Gateway E-4200 install probs

1999-09-27 Thread Seth R Arnold
Steve, I can let you know what I have learned -- the 3c59x.c file included with the kernel (even 2.2.12) is old and out of date. You need to go to Donald Becker's webpage (cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov, iirc) and download the 0.99L or newer version of the 3c59x.c file, replace the 3c59x.c file that comes

Gateway E-4200 install probs

1999-09-27 Thread Stephen R. Gore
I'm trying to install slink on a Gateway E-4200 (PIII 400). This is a testbed install, eventually to be an entire lab. I've had no problems installing to an older E-3200 (PII 300). The problem is that the network card (3COM 3c905.c) isn't recognized. When I select the appropriate module from the

Debian Drivers Disk: Install Probs

1999-07-10 Thread Marco Nuessgen
Hello. I bought the new Debian 2.1 (slink) Distribution and installed on my workstation: everything fine! Than i wanted to install Debian to my Server, but I have problems with the drivers diskette. I boot from the rescue floppy disk, mount the disks= everything OK. At the next step "Installing the

Re: gnome .deb install probs

1999-02-03 Thread Graham Ashton
On 2 Feb, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > The stuff you downloaded from ftp.gnome.org was old (however those debs > are frozen in slink). However, libglib and libgtk 1.1.13 is new. GNOME is > rapidly evolving alpha software. > [snip] thanks to those who replied. I think I'll see what happens if I do

Re: gnome .deb install probs

1999-02-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
The stuff you downloaded from ftp.gnome.org was old (however those debs are frozen in slink). However, libglib and libgtk 1.1.13 is new. GNOME is rapidly evolving alpha software. You should not try to use the slink debs if you want to run the latest stuff. Instead, you may look at the newest packag

gnome .deb install probs

1999-02-02 Thread Graham Ashton
I've downloaded libgnome0_0.30-1_i386.deb from ftp.gnome.org, and have just tried installing it on my hamm box. I got a load of dependency problems with dpkg, even for things that are installed. I installed libglib1.1.13_1.1.13-1_i386.deb libgtk1.1.13_1.1.13-1_i386.deb without any problem. W

Re: Install probs; base1 panic

1998-09-23 Thread Kent West
At 02:27 AM 9/23/1998 +, you wrote: >May be I should desribe the problem of linux-installation exactly. > > I already had the floppys needed for installation such as resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin,base14-1.bin ... and base14-5.bin. > > First ,I put the resc1440.bin into driver A and boot the syst

Re: netscape4_4.0-5.deb install probs

1997-09-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jim Pick wrote: > > > In either your /etc/profile our your own personal profile put: > > CLASSPATH="$where_netscape_is:." > > export CLASSPATH > > Or, > > export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape > > I don't do this though, because every time I access a web page with Java > u

Re: netscape4_4.0-5.deb install probs

1997-09-26 Thread Jim Pick
> In either your /etc/profile our your own personal profile put: > CLASSPATH="$where_netscape_is:." > export CLASSPATH Or, export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape I don't do this though, because every time I access a web page with Java using Netscape 4.03 it dies with a bus error - but only when

Re: netscape4_4.0-5.deb install probs

1997-09-26 Thread Shaleh
In either your /etc/profile our your own personal profile put: CLASSPATH="$where_netscape_is:." export CLASSPATH -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

netscape4_4.0-5.deb install probs

1997-09-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I tried installing communicator 4.03 using netscape4_4.0-4.deb, and got the following output: Installing Communicator files... Installing Communicator Java files... ./ns-install: line 278: 2389 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i} 2390 Done| ( cd ${TARGET}/java/

samba install probs

1997-09-16 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I just tried to install samba on my Debian 1.2 system. I found that first I have to install a few libraries, among them: libpam0 and libpam-util But there is a problem: Package: libpam-util Version: 0.56-2 Depends: libpam0 (>= 0.56-2), libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0), libpwdb0 (>= 0.54preD-1) Architect

Re: Clarification: Netscape install probs

1997-09-02 Thread Brian White
> OK. I guess I should have been clearer; I HAVE renamed the file, and > put it in /tmp. I then run "dpkg -i netscape_3.01-4.deb" and get the > error above. I think that I may have in fact slightly misinterpreted > the error at first; it seems to be generated by the *post*installation > script.

Clarification: Netscape install probs

1997-09-02 Thread Dave Neuer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Dave Neuer wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I am trying to install Netscape 3.01 on my Debian system. The > machine > > running debian has no connection to the Internet, so to transfer > files > > to the Debian box, I have to first download them onto my Power