On 20120621_104337, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 17:54:08 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > Ok. Trying to repeat your work, I accomplish all steps thru 4,
>
> Good progress. At least we now know the mirror and the installer work
> together.
>
> > but I cannot boot to Lenny. Instead I ge
On 20120620_145735, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> >On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> >>Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote:
> >>
snip...
>
> You can always use the Alt-F2 console to edit (I think nano is
> available) the sourc
On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 17:54:08 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Ok. Trying to repeat your work, I accomplish all steps thru 4,
Good progress. At least we now know the mirror and the installer work
together.
> but I cannot boot to Lenny. Instead I get error message :
>
> Error: Couldn't read file
On 20120620_130712, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 03:20:02 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > I used the mini.iso from
> > >
> > >
> > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
> > >
> >
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote:
Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote:
On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote:
Your CD, being from the "lenny=stable" era, probably attempts to
access "stable" release but it does not exis
On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote:
>
> > On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote:
> >> Your CD, being from the "lenny=stable" era, probably attempts to
> >> access "stable" release but it does not exists on an archive
> >> repository. Repla
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
(...)
> The Squeeze netinstall CD that I have used for several previous installs
> on other hardware won't work on this hardware. It doesn't initialize the
> flat screen display properly. There is a Debian swirl but response to
> keyboard
On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 03:20:02 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote:
> >
> > I used the mini.iso from
> >
> >
> > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
> >
> > successfully.
>
> Thanks, but I'm no longer confi
Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote:
> On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote:
>> Your CD, being from the "lenny=stable" era, probably attempts to
>> access "stable" release but it does not exists on an archive
>> repository. Replacing "stable" by "lenny" could do the trick
> This i
On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd put archive.debian.org for the mirror hostname.
>
> [Snip]
>
> > I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> > make
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:34:28PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 03:03:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > * note: I don't know that X is involved in painting the screen graphics on
> > boot up from the Debian install CDs. When I think about it, X seems like
> > an awfull
On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote:
> Le Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:33:44 -0600,
> Paul E Condon a écrit :
>
> > Thanks, but...
> >
> > I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> > make sure, and again I got the standard "Bad Archive Mirror"
> > message. That message
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Paul E Condon
wrote:
>
> I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> make sure, and again I got the standard "Bad Archive Mirror"
> message. That message suggests that either the archive is not
> available, or that there is not a valid
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 03:03:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> * note: I don't know that X is involved in painting the screen graphics on
> boot up from the Debian install CDs. When I think about it, X seems like
> an awfully heavy weight way to paint a picture. Suffice to say I don't want
> and
On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote:
> >
> > I'd put archive.debian.org for the mirror hostname.
[Snip]
> I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> make sure, and again I got the standard "Bad Archive Mirro
Le Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:33:44 -0600,
Paul E Condon a écrit :
> Thanks, but...
>
> I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> make sure, and again I got the standard "Bad Archive Mirror"
> message. That message suggests that either the archive is not
> available, or t
On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
> > But my old Lenny netinstall CD *does*work*. Now I need a repository to
> > point it at. I've found archive.kernel.org (I'm in USA). But I'm
> > having trouble composing the exact string
On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
[Snip]
> But my old Lenny netinstall CD *does*work*. Now I need a repository to
> point it at. I've found archive.kernel.org (I'm in USA). But I'm
> having trouble composing the exact string that I need to type into the
> screen on my new
On 20120619_211919, keith wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to
> > use it as a untility server for things like backup
> > and print serving, and I am having trouble installing
> > Debian on it. I've been using Debia
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to
> use it as a untility server for things like backup
> and print serving, and I am having trouble installing
> Debian on it. I've been using Debian since Potato was
> new, so I didn't expec
I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to
use it as a untility server for things like backup
and print serving, and I am having trouble installing
Debian on it. I've been using Debian since Potato was
new, so I didn't expect difficult problems. I want to
install wheezy, since daily backup
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