Re: Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

2022-10-19 Thread Felix Miata
David composed on 2022-10-19 18:40 (UTC-0400): > Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that > installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a > machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to > report boot failures: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Re: Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

2022-10-19 Thread Dan Ritter
David wrote: > Hello list, > > Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that > installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a > machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to > report boot failures: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=10

Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

2022-10-19 Thread David
Hello list, Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to report boot failures: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022025 https://bugs.debian.org/

Re: installing Linux debian

2022-09-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 12:53:02PM +, jair wey wrote: > Hello , Debian support > > i installed parrot os and later kali Linux on my usb > > when running it I get booted into the busybox ‘smbus is busy cant use it” > I tried looking for answers googling it but nothing of the solution worked >

installing Linux debian

2022-09-29 Thread jair wey
Hello , Debian support i installed parrot os and later kali Linux on my usb when running it I get booted into the busybox ‘smbus is busy cant use it” I tried looking for answers googling it but nothing of the solution worked What should I do to solve this problem Should I also provide screensho

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-30 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:25:37 -0500 Brian Sammon wrote: > I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. ... > Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve > buying or borrowing (or "borrowing") a copy of OSX? Is it easier to install > linux

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2014-12-05 19:18, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is* EFI >>> capable, but doesn't work in quite the way we'd normally expect. IIRC Apple's EFI is (was) not exactly what now is known as UEFI "standard". None of my Mac Minis did work with the Debia

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/05/2014 10:55 AM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi Brian, You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to play with. To the best of my knowledge, the M

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Hi Brian, >> >> You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and >> I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to >> play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've g

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Brian Sammon
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 + Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi Brian, > > You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and > I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to > play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is* > EFI capable

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
nds me various pages about installing Linux where one of >the steps is something like "Boot into OSX" > >Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't >involve buying or borrowing (or "borrowing") a copy of OSX? Is it >easier to install linu

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/05/2014 08:32 AM, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0800 > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> As mentioned earlier, your machine is currently not using EFI. > > I missed that -- and how do I know that for sure? If the Debian installer has installed grub-pc(-*) package then the in

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > As mentioned earlier, your machine is currently not using EFI. I missed that -- and how do I know that for sure? Is it possible that it's trying to use EFI, but my debian install is trying to do something not-EFI-compatible, and that's

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 12/04/2014 09:25 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to educate myself on how MBRs work on EFI machines. Questions such as: When it says

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems. This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to educate myself on how MBRs work on EFI machines. Questions such as: When it says it's installing Grub to the MBR, is it really

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 12/04/2014 01:29 PM, Brian Sammon wrote:> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:46:09 -0500 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. >>> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported >>> success, but when it came time to ejec

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:01:48 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Can we conclude that you have read this page > > https://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel I have read this page, and I'm hoping to add a "If you don't have OSX" section to it, once I figure out what to add. > and followed appropriate links,

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Joel Rees
from the hard drive. > > Googling finds me various pages about installing Linux where one of the steps > is something like "Boot into OSX" > > Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve > buying or borrowing (or "borrowing")

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/04/2014 04:29 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:46:09 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, D

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:46:09 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. > > I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported > > success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't > > boot from the hard

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require > > OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware > > it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility) > > > > Any pointers/suggestions? > > I will

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 04/12/14 21:30, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100 > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>> Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require >>> OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware >>> it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility)

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require > > OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware > > it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility) > > > > Any pointers/suggestions? > > I will

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. > I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported > success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't > boot from the hard drive. [...] > Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this mach

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jon Leonard
t boot from the hard drive. > > Googling finds me various pages about installing Linux where one of the steps > is something like "Boot into OSX" > > Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve > buying or borrowing (or "borro

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
from the hard drive. I would consider eject as a comfort at this stage. The reboot issue is the real issue here. > > Googling finds me various pages about installing Linux where one of > the steps is something like "Boot into OSX" If you do not want a dual boot computer, forget thi

Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-04 Thread Brian Sammon
I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped. I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't boot from the hard drive. Googling finds me various pages about installing Linux

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 03/02/2014 12:50, Chen Wei a écrit : On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for t

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 23:48, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> As long as the swap file is not sparse. >> > > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something > like: > > swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument > fa

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As long as the swap file is not sparse. > Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something like: swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument Only figured it out several cups of tea and google-

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Chen Wei wrote: > Besides, it > is easier to change the size of a swapfile than size of a swap > partition. How about with LVM? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/02/14 22:50, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to >> allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup >> in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. > > +

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to > allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup > in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp. +1 for the /tmp example. > My personal rule

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > There is logic for having at least as much swap as you have RAM (in other > words, a multiplier of 1.0) because, when the system panics, it may want to > make a copy of RAM to the swap space for later analysis. Or if the system is a laptop a

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: > Hi. > I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based > distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where > I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone > tell m

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Doug
On 02/01/2014 03:42 PM, Lauge Andersen wrote: Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should

Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-01 Thread Lauge Andersen
Hi. I intend to install Linux Mint Debian and give up on the Ubuntu based distros. However when I go through the installer, I get to the point where I'm supposed to choose the size of the different partitions, but can anyone tell me how big should the swap partition be? I've read online that

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-10 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Thanks for all the help! I finally was able to do an installation, and have now lubuntu 12.10 beta running- It seems, it is not using th e nonfree nvidia drivers, I do have installed libvdpau1 ubuntu-drivers-common xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa.dri (all installed by defa

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 02:58 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > different sort. > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly s

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Doug
On 09/09/2012 02:58 AM, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of different sort. Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same symptoms) Wh

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 09 September 2012 6:47:32 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > > different sort.

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
At least on debian installers it should always be possible after language and keyboard selections have been done to drop to the main menu so that an installer can first arrange for debug logs to be saved and then do a disk integrity check before proceeding with the installation. If the disk is

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > different sort. > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread lee
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen writes: > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > different sort. > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly same > symptoms) When starting t

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Sep 2012 at 02:58:39 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > different sort. > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exact

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Joe
On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 02:58:39 -0400 Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > I have a new laptop HP Pavilion dv4 5162la. I have tried all night to > install linux opn it, various distributions, but all have problems, of > different sort. > Now I am trying lubuntu (12.10 beta, but tried 12.04, exactly

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried Slackware 13.37 yet? That might work, I have an ancient Dell laptop and Slackware had no problems installing and running on that laptop. It hasn't got an especially large footprint either. --- jude Adobe fi

installing linux image doesn't call lilo

2009-06-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, I noticed that in lenny, installing new linux image doesn't cause lilo to be run, therefore the system might get unbootable. Is there any docs about this and is there any way to cause lilo run after kernel image install? I have /etc/kernel-img.conf with "do_bootloader = Yes" for a long t

Re: Installing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 on lenny (grub problems)

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:13 +1200, Simon wrote: > > We have a fresh install of lenny on a VM Which VM? > and tried to perform the initial apt-get update/upgrade but are having > issues with dependency problems. Can someone point me in the correct > direction here please? > # apt-get u

Installing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 on lenny (dependency problems)

2009-05-27 Thread Simon
Hi There, We have a fresh install of lenny on a VM and tried to perform the initial apt-get update/upgrade but are having issues with dependency problems. Can someone point me in the correct direction here please? Thanks Simon # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: Error installing linux-sound-base on testing

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:31, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > While installing alsa-utils which depends on linux-sound-base on a > fresh testing install: > > Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.13-3) ... The same version exists in both testing, unstable according to http://packages.debian.org

Error installing linux-sound-base on testing

2007-01-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
While installing alsa-utils which depends on linux-sound-base on a fresh testing install: Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.13-3) ... ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/modutils/linux-sound-base_noOSS' to `/lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modutils.conf': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing l

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-04 Thread Colin
sol-100 wrote: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've > downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. > May I have your help, please? > Let's start with the obvious: Is there only one ISO file on the CD or are there a couple of files a

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:30:24PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > sol-100 writes: > > I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've > > downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. May I have your > > help, please? > > You certainly may, but you must give us more in

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
sol-100 writes: > I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've > downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. May I have your > help, please? You certainly may, but you must give us more information. _Exactly_ what did you do and _exactly_ what happened? Be ve

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread igor Guerrero
Hi, you need to restart your PC and go to the BIOS menu(F2 or delete on startup) and change the divice priority so you can boot(start) from your CD drive before booting Windows XP. On 12/3/06, sol-100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there! I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windo

installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread sol-100
Hi there! I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. May I have your help, please?

Any success in installing Linux Lotus Notes Client 7.0.1 on Etch?

2006-07-24 Thread Bruno Voigt
Hi all, the Linux-Version of the Lotus Notes client 7.0.1 is now available. It is intended for Redhat 4 with Mozilla 1.7. Had someone already success in installing it on Etch? For me the installer exits after complaining that it could not validate the mozilla version, although the latest mozilla p

Re: Installing Linux Kernel and RT Linux

2006-01-24 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Eduardo wrote: Hello I'm new to Linux and working and reading a lot to understand it. I have downloaded the Kernel but haven't got a clue how to install it in a computer that will use only the Kernel and the RT Linux... Any help please Eduardo I would begin by installing and learning a di

Installing Linux Kernel and RT Linux

2006-01-24 Thread Eduardo
Hello I'm new to Linux and working and reading a lot to understand it. I have downloaded the Kernel but haven't got a clue how to install it in a computer that will use only the Kernel and the RT Linux...   Any help please   Eduardo

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Karsten M. Self wrote: ...and you want to do...? I want to test debian-installer. -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - UML: patch for kernel? I don't want to recompile my kernel > > You don't have to, it's a ready-made Debian package, as previously > described. user mode linux works without the patch. But it works better when a UML patch is applied to the kerne

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:10:04 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The primary issue is performance. Bochs is a hardware-in-software > emulator. The useful feature is that you can run a virtual x86 box on > any platform -- x86, MIPS, zSeries, whatever. The downside is it's > slow. Really, really slow

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:23:45AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already > running Debian install on the same partition. > > - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian > install? or

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-21 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:23, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already > running Debian install on the same partition. > > - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian > install? or will emulator-specific problems ari

Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-21 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already running Debian install on the same partition. - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian install? or will emulator-specific problems arise? - chroot: what's a chroot? - UML: patch for kernel? I don't

Re: Installing Linux

2001-03-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Andrew wrote: > > Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are > considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if > I can start the installation system and tell it to > download the packages,etc. If I can, please tell me > what I need and how to do it. Thanks. > I bought the 3 CD 2.2r0 b

Re: Installing Linux

2001-03-10 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, you need to download the basesystem and some floppy's. Once you have booted the base system and roll into the secound stage install, you have the option to set up a ppp link, or just use the ethernet, to download additional packages. See ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/disks-/ there is a do

Installing Linux

2001-03-09 Thread Andrew
Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if I can start the installation system and tell it to download the packages,etc by ftp. If I can, please tell me what I need and how to do it. Thanks. A. Breeden __

Installing Linux

2001-03-09 Thread Andrew
Hi. I am getting ready to install Linux and are considering the way's to install it. I am wondering if I can start the installation system and tell it to download the packages,etc. If I can, please tell me what I need and how to do it. Thanks. A. Breeden _

Re: HPT366 and installing linux.

2000-03-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> After a long time without using Linux, I decided to try Debian on my > computer. However, when I tried to install Debian the setup program > couldn't find any drives connected... And I tried to install manually > the disk drives with the I/O adresses and irq numbers. No way! I can't use > my UDMA

HPT366 and installing linux.

2000-03-21 Thread Tolga KIlicli
After a long time without using Linux, I decided to try Debian on my computer. However, when I tried to install Debian the setup program couldn't find any drives connected... And I tried to install manually the disk drives with the I/O adresses and irq numbers. No way! I can't use my UDMA66 drive.

Re: Installing Linux (RedHat) on NT 4.0

1999-10-29 Thread David J. Kanter
Just use the program bootpart for NT; you'll be up and running in about 5 minutes. On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:26:08PM +1000, Wallentin, Henrik wrote: > Hi all! > > I know this has been brought up a couple of times, but I would really be > happy if any of you could help me with this. > > Last wee

Installing Linux (RedHat) on NT 4.0

1999-10-28 Thread Wallentin, Henrik
Hi all! I know this has been brought up a couple of times, but I would really be happy if any of you could help me with this. Last week a had a really good URL for how to set up Linux on a machine which already has NT on it. The URL was www.li.org/Resources/LDP/sg/sg.html, and if you take a look

installing linux reboots

1999-08-02 Thread jvinyas
dear linuxers, I'm triying again to install linux on a VXPRO P166. Now without any card (except PCI video card). Every time machine reboots when installing. Finally changing things i optained follw message (about. very fast reboot) Kernel - Netconfig failed allocate buffer hash table. Inswap

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:38:48PM +1000, Colin Tree wrote: > > Hi, > > Just noticed something called VMware, a pc emulator which creates > a virtual pc. Rock solid, runs ms-dos, windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000 beta. > Needs a fast machine with heaps of ram and doesn't support DirectX. > Has anyone

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-26 Thread Colin Tree
Hi, Just noticed something called VMware, a pc emulator which creates a virtual pc. Rock solid, runs ms-dos, windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000 beta. Needs a fast machine with heaps of ram and doesn't support DirectX. Has anyone tried this software ? http://www.vmware.com >also, is there any way to s

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread David Teague
Revenant: Great that you should contribute back to the liet! congratulations. The package you mention is WABI, "Windows Application Binary Interface" or something like that, it is commercial, and as I recall it only works for 3.1 applications. It has been a long time since I looked. This is the

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Frankie
Will Lowe wrote: > > floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second > > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im > > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive, > Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted unde

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Jun, Revenant wrote about "Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux" > > I believe there is a UNIX win emulator called WAPI, but it's commercial > and I don't know how much it would cost. It's WABI. There is also VMware(www.vmware

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Revenant
Mounting an MS-DOS filesystem should work - I was doing that until I realised you could do VFAT. You'll just be without your long filenames. There is a Windows 'emulator' called "WINE" for Linux but it's not 100% reliable and is still listed as a developer's-only alpha release to the best of my k

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-25 Thread Kent West
Gentleman Loser wrote: > I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive with > linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my > webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell me one thing it > would be how i could carry these things over to linux. I

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread David Teague
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Gentleman Loser wrote: > I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's > suplementary CD). > > I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive > with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri > files, my webpage, and rea

Re: I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread Will Lowe
> floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive, Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted under Windows, no problem. >

I need some info/piece of mind before installing linux

1999-06-24 Thread Gentleman Loser
I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's suplementary CD).   I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my webpage, and real audio files.  If you could only tell me one thi

Re: Installing Linux 1.3.1

1999-06-18 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Hi friends Hi > I'm a beginner in the Linux World and as my first step I have installed > Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 in a PC 486 > / 100 MHz through the floppy drive. My PC lacks of CD-ROM or network > connection. Why 1.3? You could get 2.0 Anyway > > $ I don't know how to use the dselect com

Installing Linux 1.3.1

1999-06-18 Thread Hector Garcia
Hi friends I'm a beginner in the Linux World and as my first step I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 in a PC 486 / 100 MHz through the floppy drive. My PC lacks of CD-ROM or network connection. Now , I'm trying to install some aplications such as graphical user interface (XFree86) , etc.

[solved] [off topic] installing linux form source

1999-06-10 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, thanks for all your replies. I've installed the debian packages for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 from netgod.net/x on slink. X is fine now and I'm happy again. Thank you Armin

Re: [off topic] installing linux from scratch

1999-06-08 Thread Ben Messinger
This mail was sent from a 100% Microsoft-free (aka GPF-free) environment. Have a stable day. Use Linux. On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux > from c source code. > Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But

Re: [off topic] installing linux from scratch

1999-06-08 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux > from c source code. This is not quite clear. You can't install the Linux kernel from its source code on a bare computer---you have to bootstrap via simpler systems to get to t

Re: [off topic] installing linux from scratch

1999-06-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:05:32 +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: > Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for > my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from > source to /usr/local. It's probably easier to use the 3.3.3.1 packages for slink from

[off topic] installing linux from scratch

1999-06-08 Thread Armin Wegner
Hi, can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux from c source code. Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from source to /usr/local. Now there are many very anoying proble

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image > is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. > You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) > You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is > /dev/hda1, th

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is /dev/hda1, then your C:\Debian becomes /dev/hda

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in renaming the file from Linux.htm to Linux. I am back to from where I started. All the required files are at C:\Debian. When I type "Install" the same message comes back. "Image file not found. Please enter name of kernet image file followed by optional command line parameters for L

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in changing the file name to Linux from Linux.htm Still I am back to the same position. When on dos C\Debian (This is where all the required files are kept) I type "Install", as suggested to me last week,I get the same messages: Image file not found. Please enter name of kernel image

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-01 Thread Bala Iyer
Further to the advise of 30th March to check whether the file "linux" via Netscape came with extension ".htm" and to save it as only Linux and not Linux.htm. I tried to do that but could not achieve that. So I tried to download the file (by keeping the shift key down while downloading) again and it

Re: Help for Installing Linux

1999-03-30 Thread Kent West
Bala Iyer wrote: > On Dos partition when I ran Install the following message came up. > Image File not found. > Please enter name of kernel image file follwed by optional command line > parameters for Linux (e.g. root = ) or @file (file = param file) or "empty > string" to abort. > Thanks for

Re: Help for Installing Linux

1999-03-30 Thread Kent West
Bala Iyer wrote: > On Dos partition when I ran Install the following message came up. > Image File not found. > Please enter name of kernel image file follwed by optional command line > parameters for Linux (e.g. root = ) or @file (file = param file) or "empty > string" to abort. > Thanks for

Help for Installing Linux

1999-03-26 Thread Bala Iyer
On Dos partition when I ran Install the following message came up. Image File not found. Please enter name of kernel image file follwed by optional command line parameters for Linux (e.g. root = ) or @file (file = param file) or "empty string" to abort. Thanks for the help. ___

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