Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:05:57PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > > Next I will ask for how to replace GNOME with fvwm... > GNOME is a "desktop environment", fvwm is a "window manager" That is you can use fvwm as a replacement for the window manager provided by GNOME (sorry, don't know what GNOME uses.)

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:51:09 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... > > IME, that's normal. Whatever block

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:50:23 bdebreil wrote: > My next concern are the error messages that keep displaying every 3 > minutes or so, if I am on a console (that doesn't show when I am under > Gnome Xterm). For a new issue, you should start a new thread. Other can can help you with the new

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bdebreil
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:51 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... > > IME, that's normal. Whatever bl

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... IME, that's normal. Whatever block devices back your '/' file system can not be shut down cleanly, but since it i

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bdebreil
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 09:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: > >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. > >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > > > >'A degradated event has been det

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bd
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 09:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: > >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. > >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > > > >'A degradated event has been det

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > >'A degradated event has been detected on md device /dev/md0 >P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the foll

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-26 14:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Bernard wrote: >>> Thanks in advance for your help in switching my keyboard to the French >>> setup. >> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > Will not work¹ with the version

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-26 14:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Bernard wrote: >> >> Thanks in advance for your help in switching my keyboard to the French >> setup. > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Will not work¹ with the version of xserver-xorg currently in Lenny. :-( Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard wrote: [snip] > My next problem is one of keyboard. I had chosen a kind of automatic > setup for my install. Despites this, I was questioned about language, > and I had replied 'French'. However my keyboard is in QWERTY instead of > being in AZ

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Bernard
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 13:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bernard wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge, > > I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just up

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard wrote: > Hi there, > > Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge, > I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just upgrade (there > has been Etch in between), Why not just upgrade to etch (aka 'oldstab

problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Bernard
Hi there, Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge, I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just upgrade (there has been Etch in between), I just saved directories and installed from the iso image debian-502a-i386-netinst.iso I choose somewhat automate