Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > > > Description: > > > >

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
e intent of the "No" > option for network mirrors and the actual installer behavior. IMO, > the installer should do one of the following: > > - Respect the user's choice and perform a purely offline installation > when "No" is selected on the network mirr

Re: Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:55:56 (+0900), Mailing List wrote: > I believe I've found a bug in the DVD ISO installer logic which affects > 11.11 and earlier but in theory could affect 12.x as well. > > Description: > > A default installation of Debian 11.11 (Bullseye) from the official DVD ISO > fai

Debian 11 DVD ISO install requires mirror to avoid installation failure

2025-01-30 Thread Mailing List
tion and either: - prompt the user to decide to install security updates, with a warning that this may fail without a mirror. - prompt the user to set a network mirror to avoid potential installation failure. Relevant installation syslog: Jan 31 05:32:59 cdrom-detect: Devices: &#x

Re: Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

2021-08-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 10:48:58 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:19:35PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > > Having noted that the release of Bullseye is imminent I decided to > > use the RC2 iteration of Bullseye rather than Buster. > > I consequently downloaded file 'Debian-bulls

Re: Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

2021-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 08:19:35PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > Having noted that the release of Bullseye is imminent I decided to > use the RC2 iteration of Bullseye rather than Buster. > I consequently downloaded file 'Debian-bullseye-DI-rc2-amd4-netinst.iso' I don't know where you're getting your

Re: Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

2021-08-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 20:19:35 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: [Extensive information snipped] >From Knoppix live check that the Debian installation is on /dev/sda. Then 'grub-install /dev/sda' and boot. -- Brian.

Bullseye installation failure because boot loader not installed

2021-08-15 Thread Ken Heard
I recently upgraded a desktop computer by replacing major parts in it including the mainboard and CPU. I now want to install in it a more up to date operating system than Wheezy which was the one used before the upgrade. Having noted that the release of Bullseye is imminent I decided to use the RC

Re: Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

2020-05-10 Thread Jan Wilmans
If you look carefully of the last page, the radio button for writing the boot record to disk is by default is to ,NOT write the boot record. You have to change it to 'yes' before you continue! If you dont, then ofcourse it reboots and since nothing changed in the boot sequence it boots the iso aga

Re: Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

2020-05-09 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 10/5/20 1:24 pm, Harry Brown wrote: Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing KaliLinux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed *Oracle VirtualBox* on my *Windows 10* and downloaded *Kali Linux 64bit ISO file*, Then I created a new virtual machine *(De

Kali Linux installation failure on VirtualBox

2020-05-09 Thread Harry Brown
Hey guys, I'm having a bit of an issue here while installing Kali Linux and I was wondering if you guys can help out. I installed Oracle VirtualBox on my Windows 10 and downloaded Kali Linux 64bit ISO file, Then I created a new virtual machine (Debian 64bit)  and started installing Kali Lin

Re: Debian 9.3 GUI installation failure

2017-12-31 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 20:37:06 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote: > > > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All > > was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an > > error message about "is

Re: Debian 9.3 GUI installation failure

2017-12-31 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote: > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All > was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an > error message about "ispell" and that something "british" couldn't be > installed.(I chose "

Re: Debian 9.3 GUI installation failure

2017-12-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 (+), w f wrote: > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 > version.All was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I > suddenly got an error message about "ispell" and that something > "british" couldn't be installed.(I chose

installation failure

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Petrov
Than you for the advice. I will start over the installation. greetings, Alexander _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

Re: installation failure

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:16:41 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Petrov wrote: > I tried to install Lenny on Toshiba laptop which has Windows Vista > using network installation (netinst cd). It booted normally and > after downloading some files suddenly stopped. The system failed > to boot. I started it from

Re: installation failure

2010-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:16:41 +0200, Alexander Petrov wrote: > I tried to install Lenny on Toshiba laptop which has Windows Vista > using network installation (netinst cd). It booted normally and after > downloading some files suddenly stopped. The system failed to boot. I > started it from a live

installation failure

2010-03-25 Thread Alexander Petrov
Hi all, I tried to install Lenny on Toshiba laptop which has Windows Vista using network installation (netinst cd). It booted normally and after downloading some files suddenly stopped. The system failed to boot. I started it from a live cd and found that the ext3 filesystem was created and t

Re: Installation failure using debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso

2006-06-16 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:47 -0400, John Miller wrote: > Chuck, > > Every CD image has checksums available from the download site to make > sure it's been downloaded correctly. Don't know how to obtain the > checksums via BitTorrent, but the checksum for the 3.1r2 release is > available at: > > h

Re: Installation failure using debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso

2006-06-12 Thread John Miller
Chuck, Every CD image has checksums available from the download site to make sure it's been downloaded correctly. Don't know how to obtain the checksums via BitTorrent, but the checksum for the 3.1r2 release is available at: http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/i386/

Installation failure using debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso

2006-06-12 Thread Chuck Pergiel
Downloaded debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso using BitTorrent. Burned a CD using NERO. Boot from the CD, start going through installation, get an error: [!!] Load Installer Components from CD There was a problem reading data from the CDROM. ... Retrying does not help, washing the CD does not help. I

amavisd-new stable backport - installation failure

2004-04-17 Thread Ian McCall
Hello. I'm trying to installed amavisd-new on a Woody-based server from the source: deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS woody-amavisd-new main However, installation always fails. Here's my output: brickwall:/home/ADMIN/admin# apt-get install !$ apt-get install amavisd-new Reading Pa

Re: Installation failure, module error

2002-11-28 Thread Qian Gong
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:18:25AM +0100, Andreas wrote: > I´m trying to install Debian over the internet, using floppydisks. I > encounter an error when I shall "Configure device driver modules". When > I choose to do so, the installer says: > > "No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.2.

Installation failure, module error

2002-11-28 Thread Andreas
I´m trying to install Debian over the internet, using floppydisks. I encounter an error when I shall "Configure device driver modules". When I choose to do so, the installer says:   "No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.2.19 that could be configured. Please install the kernel modul

Re: Package Installation Failure

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > dpkg-deb: file looks like it might be an archive which has been > dpkg-deb:corrupted by being downloaded in ASCII mode > dpkg-deb: `/home/yves/APPLICATIONS/Packages/libforms0_89_0_89-6.deb' is not a > debian format archive > dpkg: error processing > /home/yves/APPL

Package Installation Failure

2000-11-10 Thread Yves . Pocchiola
I have downloaded a Debian package: libforms0_89_0_89-6.deb under Windows (My computer hosts both Linux/Debian2.2 and Windows and is equipped by a WinModem not supported by Linux). When I try to install the package by dpkg -install, it fails and I get the following messages: dpkg-deb: file look

Installation failure

1999-12-17 Thread Lee Barford
I am attempting to install Debian on an HP Kayak XU 6/200 and failing utterly. I have installed Red Hat on two indentical computers without a hitch. This is my first attempt to install Debian. The CD-ROM I'm using came with the O'Reilly "Learning Debian" book. I boot from the CD-ROM (so the drive

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Chris Mc.
I'm even more confused now :-) For some reason, I couldn't get rawrite to write the 1.44 files to my last box of KAO disks. I tried the 1.2, and it worked fine. I booted off the LOWMEM.BIN floppy and was able to set up the three partitions and initialize the swap. The second step was to initializ

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Simon Holgate
Quick qustion. What is the size of your floppy drive? If you have a 1.44MB drive then use the lowmem.bin floppy image. There are problems with this (as you may have seen from the many recent postings re: the lowmem installation problems - check the archive.) If you are using the 1.2MB install do y

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > Configuring root file ... > MINIX-fs: bad root directory '.' entry > Unable to mount the temporary root partition! I"ve never used a lowmem setup, but as a wild guess, does it need a mkfs.minix run on it first? --

Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Chris Mc.
I hope someone can give me an idea what I'm doing wrong: I inherited an old Toshiba T1850C notebook. (80386) I used the lowmem rescue disk to start the process. I created three partitions on the hard drive: hda1 = 90 Meg type 83 hda2 = 20 Meg type 82 hda3 = 6 Meg type 81 Following the prompts, I

Hamm installation --- failure (base14-1 fails crc check)

1998-08-16 Thread adavis
Installing Hamm from images I have FTPed from one of the debian mirrors. Trying to install on a 486DX/33 Gateway 200 (donated to our Science Department by a local engineering firm). This machine is destined, with luck and whatever else, to be the Internet gateway machine for our Science Department

Netstd Package Installation Failure

1997-09-18 Thread <-------->
Hi, I recently downloaded Debian From the ftp site and installed and started installing different packages but theres one that im stuck at The package is called netstd_2.13-1.deb.this is what installation tells me: dpkg-deb:subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe) dpkg:error processing netst

Once more: Installation failure

1997-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, I posted this message last week. Because I didn't got any answer I try to give more details in the end of my posting. I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-). Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem see

Installation failure

1997-01-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-). Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem seemed to be the following: I have a partition mounted on /var of about 80MB. To download the packages temporaryly they w