Re: squeeze amd64 installation hangs

2011-02-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 feb 11, 15:09:20, Thomas Gschwind wrote: > works fine (living with the i386 installation is not an option). Any Just curios, why is i386 not an option? > Any suggestions of where the problem could be would be welcome. No ideea, but if you don't get any useful suggestion in a few day

squeeze amd64 installation hangs

2011-02-22 Thread Thomas Gschwind
Hi all! I am trying to install debian squeeze using the image from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso However, after partitioning the hard disk, debian fails to create the ext3 partition (all options being the default options, using automatic pa

Re: Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/12/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at > one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs > w

Re: Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at > one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs > when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immedia

Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immediately (so that Alt-F4 no longer works to show me the log) or at some percen

New installation hangs on "REAL TIME CLOCK DRIVER v1.12"

2004-10-21 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I am installing a new system and after the first install when i reboot to go on with the debian configuration, it hangs on "real time clock driver v1.12" Anybody an idea ? Grtz, Phil. Disclaimer : This e-mail is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s) mentioned as recipient

Debian installation hangs

2002-04-25 Thread wreck diver
Anyone seen this problem. My system: CPU: AMD - Athalon Linux Dist: Mandrake 8.1 Keyboard: keytronic PS/2 connector to PC I want to remplace Mandrake with Debian. This dist I have is 2.2 r5. I'll do the apt-upgrade to after. I put the Debian ISO image (the disk are good I installed the dist on

installation hangs during (after?) downloading scsi stuff on P133

1999-10-07 Thread Martyn Pearce
Anders Lennartsson writes: | Yesterday I tried to install debian on an old machine for use as a | X-terminal at work. The machine is a Dell P133 (the first machine | I've acutually laid hands on with the F0 bug!) with 96Mb of memory, an | Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 1.3Gig SCSI HD. It booted nic

installation hangs during (after?) downloading scsi stuff on P133

1999-10-06 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Hi Yesterday I tried to install debian on an old machine for use as a X-terminal at work. The machine is a Dell P133 (the first machine I've acutually laid hands on with the F0 bug!) with 96Mb of memory, an Adaptec 2940 and a Seagate 1.3Gig SCSI HD. It booted nicely on the rescue disk but after i

Re: Installation hangs (and other problems)

1999-01-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's some further info I got, apparently from Andrew Martin Adrian Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, along with some questions/comments by me. Since the return address didn't work, I'm hoping he will catch it here. (Also, I'm trying another address). Just so it doesn't get buried, the highlight is "d

Installation hangs (and other problems)

1999-01-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I just tried my first install of Debian. It didn't go very well. Fortunately, I did it in the spirit of a trial run. I thought I'd list a few of the problems I ran into, in hopes that someone might be able to save me some time getting it right. The main item is that dselect hung repeatedly when

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-15 Thread David Stern
Hi Mark, I didn't feel right about putting untested code up for the innocent to trip over, particularly newcomers, so I decided to try booting the bootdisk I created by recompiling with scsi enabled (I only have scsi drives). I experienced some errors with the ramdisk, as I feared might occur

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-14 Thread David Stern
Hi Mark, I have some good news, and I have some bad news. THe good news first. I do have a boot disk for you. (details below) THe bad news is that since I'm removing scsi support (this was reported to be the problem, see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9810/msg03176.html

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread Mark Weston
On 12 Dec 98, at 10:24, David Stern wrote: > > Yes, I was trying again last nigt, and waited for 20 minutes or so > > without result. And the Master/Slave jumpers are definitely configured > > correctly. > > I thought of something the other day.. umm.. I know it's generally > considered somewha

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-13 Thread John C. Ellingboe
The only lead I had to a location for slink 1440 floppy images gives an error now. Maybe someone else will come up with a URL. I'm afraid you will probably need someone with more in-depth knowledge than me to solve the problem. John Mark Weston wrote: > > On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Elli

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
> > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > > require an entry on the "boot line" or use the tecra rescue disk like the > > lap t

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Weston
On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > require an entry on the "boot line" or us

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Weston
On 10 Dec 98, at 10:23, David Stern wrote: > > I tried booting with SoundBlaster, CD-ROM and SyJet disabled, but it > > seem to help. And all the devices work fine under another O/S (that > > speak its name on this list), so I don't think the actual hardware's > > You'll find the Debianeers have

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Robert Vollmert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during > > the > > long series of hardware detection messages, successfully detects all the > > IDE > > devices and then hangs on the line. > > > > md driver 0.35 MAX_

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Joe Emenaker
Not sure what the original post is, but you might want to check the MB compatibility HOWTO. I had a SuperMicro P5MMA98 board and I found out that it had a BIOS glitch that pissed Linux off. I was able to download a flash upgrade and then Linux installed perfectly. - Joe BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kent West wrote: > At 11:13 AM 12/10/1998 -0500, Tun Yang wrote: > >This is not related to this problem, but I thought I'd just throw in some > >ideas... > >I have an Adaptec 2940UW, and when I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, I put > >it in PCI slot #1. Debian cd boot up hung somewhere. (I think

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Kent West
At 11:13 AM 12/10/1998 -0500, Tun Yang wrote: >This is not related to this problem, but I thought I'd just throw in some >ideas... >I have an Adaptec 2940UW, and when I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, I put >it in PCI slot #1. Debian cd boot up hung somewhere. (I think at the scsi >init area). Tha

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Tun Yang
>> I searched the kernel sources and I found this is the "multiple >> devices" driver. That handles disk striping (RAID 0), RAID 5, etc. >> >> I have never heard of this problem, nor do I have any insight as to >> what might cause this error. I was taught to disconnect unnecessary >> devices

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Weston
On 9 Dec 98, at 0:12, David Stern wrote: > > I searched the kernel sources and I found this is the "multiple > devices" driver. That handles disk striping (RAID 0), RAID 5, etc. > > I have never heard of this problem, nor do I have any insight as to > what might cause this error. I was taugh

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread Robert Vollmert
> The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during the > long series of hardware detection messages, successfully detects all the IDE > devices and then hangs on the line. > > md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I have almost the same problem on my similar machine: W

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 23:48:07 GMT, "Mark Weston" wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying my first ever Linux installation from a Debian 2.0 CD, > and have run into problems which are beyond me at the moment. I'd be > really grateful for some help. > > The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the L

Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread Mark Weston
Hi, I've been trying my first ever Linux installation from a Debian 2.0 CD, and have run into problems which are beyond me at the moment. I'd be really grateful for some help. The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during the long series of hardware detection mes

installation hangs

1998-11-11 Thread Richard Hall
I am trying to install linux on a machine that had NT on it. Using the rescue disk and the boot parameters "rescue aic7xxx=no_reset" gets me to where the kernel finds the hard drive, but when it does the partition check, it hangs with this error: Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 > [MS_DOS