Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 09:08:26, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:01:52PM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > > kaye n wrote: > > > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > > > 'parted -l'.* > > > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > > > ka

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 12 février 2020 15:10:04 UTC+1, Felix Miata a écrit : [...] > If you present to it what it wants, it makes no partitioning changes. If you > don't, it will divide up what you do give it, as long as what you do give it > can meet its minimum requirement. [...] I am sure now that you are

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:01:52PM +0100, Klaus Singvogel wrote: > kaye n wrote: > > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > > 'parted -l'.* > > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > > kaye@laptop:~$ parted -l > > bash: parted: command not found >

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Felix Miata
didier.gau...@gmail.com composed on 2020-02-12 01:57 (UTC-0800): >> Windows will automatically create a partition out of the 50GB partition >> that I made for it? > I may be wrong, but I do not think the Microsoft Windows installer will do > so: it will probably try to create other partitions if

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Klaus Singvogel
kaye n wrote: > *The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB > originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates. > > *Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can > make for UEFI partition? Or is that not a wise thing to do

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Please use a correct quoting method: it is difficult to differenciate your discourse from others when when replying to you :-) Le mercredi 12 février 2020 09:00:05 UTC+1, kaye n a écrit : > Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can make > for UEFI partition? Or is tha

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 15:53:37, kaye n wrote: > > *For the future, you could paste the (relevant part from) the output of > 'parted -l'.* > Just curious, never encountered that command before. > kaye@laptop:~$ parted -l > bash: parted: command not found It's in package 'parted' and must be run as roo

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread kaye n
*The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates.*Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can make for UEFI partition? Or is that not a wise thing to do? *PXE Boot is booting

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 feb 20, 21:07:05, kaye n wrote: > Thank you guys for telling me the email got lost. I'll just describe it. > > The partition table is GPT. > > Imagine you're looking at the graphical presentation of my hdd in GParted. > > Starting from the left: For the future, you could paste the (r

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
kaye n composed on 2020-02-11 21:07 (UTC+0800): > The partition table is GPT. Created how? Did you do it yourself prior to beginning installation of Debian? > Imagine you're looking at the graphical presentation of my hdd in GParted. > Starting from the left: > 858GB NTFS partition (intended f

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Thanks. Two thoughts about your failures: The (U)EFI partition seems far to small, I think mine was about 200 MB originaly and I extended it to 700 MB, so I was able to make UEFI updates. PXE Boot is booting over network (TFTP) and not want you want. You can configure your boot device in the BIO

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread kaye n
Thank you guys for telling me the email got lost. I'll just describe it. The partition table is GPT. Imagine you're looking at the graphical presentation of my hdd in GParted. Starting from the left: 858GB NTFS partition (intended for storing all kinds of data) then 20GB ext4 partition, with

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Felix Miata wrote: > kaye n composed on 2020-02-11 17:23 (UTC+0800): > > > No one? > > Your OP seems to have gotten lost in the ether. I don't see it on > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/02/threads.html and don't remember > seeing it arrive among any other debian-user email. I do see th

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
kaye n composed on 2020-02-11 17:23 (UTC+0800): > No one? Your OP seems to have gotten lost in the ether. I don't see it on https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/02/threads.html and don't remember seeing it arrive among any other debian-user email. I do see there another original post from yo

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-11 Thread kaye n
No one? On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:35 PM kaye n wrote: > Hello Friends! > > Are my attached files too big? If so, let me know, I'll make them smaller > next time. > > debian_01.jpg shows how I formatted the brand new hard drive. My goal is > to install Debian first, then Windows. I know it's not

Re: Re: Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-23 Thread Karasawa, Mizuki
Further research, seems to related to bug #883938 identified in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883938 The temporary workaround is to turn NUMA off when booting… Mizuki

Re: Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-23 Thread Karasawa, Mizuki
I’m using the latest netboot kernel for installation (dated in Dec 5th 2017, http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ ) One machine had kernel crash at the very beginning, other machines I had better luck but ran into ‘partitioning trouble’, I backed out

Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 04:24:32PM -0500, mizuki wrote: > since the netboot kernel was updated in Dec 5 2017 for Debian 8.10, we were > not able to install any of the physical systems (vms works). […] > 2) The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(1,0,0), > partition #7 (sda

(resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-22 Thread mizuki
(Re-sending this msg, 1st was sent on Jan 19 2018, not sure why it did not reach the mailing list...) Hi, In our organization, we are using netboot to auto provisioning the systems, since the netboot kernel was updated in Dec 5 2017 for Debian 8.10, we were not able to install any of the physica

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-27 Thread mizuki
Thank for responses though, very much appreciated! Mizuki On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:30 PM, mizuki wrote: > Hi, > > Since Mar 10th, I seem to have trouble installing Debian testing on a > virtual machine or a physical machine, always fails at step 'Partition > disk'

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150325_1530-0400, mizuki wrote: > Hi, > > Since Mar 10th, I seem to have trouble installing Debian testing on a > virtual machine or a physical machine, always fails at step 'Partition > disk' with partman, it complains: > > The attempt to mount a file syste

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/25/2015 12:30 PM, mizuki wrote: > The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0), > partition #1 (sda) at / failed. You may resume partitioning from > the partitioning menu. > I've never had this problem and honestly ha

trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-25 Thread mizuki
Hi, Since Mar 10th, I seem to have trouble installing Debian testing on a virtual machine or a physical machine, always fails at step 'Partition disk' with partman, it complains: The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at / failed. You

Trouble installing Debian on Compaq RS3000

2004-09-04 Thread emunson
I am following the directions posted here: http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/kisner/linux/compaq-r3000/ The installed is failing on the base install with these errors: Setting up base-config (2.43) ... Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-daemon-light at exim4 exim4-config mailx exim4-ba

Re: Trouble installing Debian 3.0 on P166 system

2002-10-16 Thread nate
Denver Coneybeare said: > > I am having a strange problem installing Debian 3.0 on an old P166 > computer. The installation goes smoothly but after it reboots > something goes wrong. After running fsck I get the message > > "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." I h

Trouble installing Debian 3.0 on P166 system

2002-10-16 Thread Denver Coneybeare
I am having a strange problem installing Debian 3.0 on an old P166 computer. The installation goes smoothly but after it reboots something goes wrong. After running fsck I get the message "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." and then it just stays there. If I p

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
Glenn Murray wrote: > The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, > viz.: > > drivers.tgz > install.bat > linux [cut] > My question is: how do I use the files above with the installation CDs so > that the installation program can find the hard drive? Well, I've never ins

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-12 Thread Glenn Murray
My understanding now is that I have a Promise Technology card for an ultra-ATA/66 (IDE) interface, and I need a Linux driver for this card. The ...disks-i386/current/udma66/ directory contains three files, viz.: drivers.tgz install.bat linux but no Readme, so I am a little at a loss. The drive

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Matthew Dalton
> > Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital > > IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing > > is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains > > why setup doesn't see it. > > Which setup? Debian's installer or

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
Please use postfix followup. On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:19:36PM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 Karsten M. Self wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to in

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Glenn Murray
Thanks for the reply. Weirdness: I took the case apart. The hard drive is a Western Digital IDE drive connected to a Promise Technology Ultra66 PCI card. Nothing is plugged into the motherboard's primary ide controller, which explains why setup doesn't see it. Besides the information below,

Re: Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread kmself
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:50:13AM -0600, Glenn Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on two graduate students' machines. The > install boots from the CD but is unable to find the hard drive. > > The machines are: > > Dell Dimension XPS T800r, BIOS v

Trouble installing Debian

2000-10-11 Thread Glenn Murray
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on two graduate students' machines. The install boots from the CD but is unable to find the hard drive. The machines are: Dell Dimension XPS T800r, BIOS version A09 Setup reports the zip and cd on the secondary IDE controller, and Win2K reports the hard d

Trouble installing Debian on MVME167

2000-02-25 Thread Jim Ziegler
I am trying to install Debian on an MVME167. I have downloaded from slink (March 2 version): tftplilo tftplilo.conf linux (for MVME167) root.bin (for MVME167) and moved these to /boot with new names as directed. I have set up tftp and the MVME167. When I reset the MVME167 I g

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, If I remember right, some IBM PS1s have trouble booting Linux; I never saw it

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Oki DZ
Chris Acheson wrote: > > I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, > 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 I have my 486/DX4 running on slink; did that aprox. two days ago. The only problem I encountered was th

Re: trouble installing debian

1999-11-19 Thread Shaul Karl
> I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, > 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 > partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press > enter at the "boot:" prompt. There is some d

trouble installing debian

1999-11-18 Thread Chris Acheson
I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press enter at the "boot:" prompt. There is some disk activity for a f

RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
o: Brian Morgan > Subject: Re: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: > > An addendum to my 2 previous posts. > > > > I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK, > > inst

RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
long time, though). Any suggestions as to how to boot from hard disk? Thanks again Brian > -Original Message- > From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:08 PM > To: Debian User Group > Subject: RE: trouble installing debian (any v

RE: trouble installing debian (any version)

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
sn't apply. I'm not sure. Brian Morgan > -Original Message- > From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:17 PM > To: Debian User Group > Subject: trouble installing debian (any version) > > > I'm having trouble

trouble installing debian (any version)

1999-01-20 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand laptop (trying slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base system, but it gives an error: "There was a problem extracting the Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz" at the end of installation.

Re: TROUBLE INSTALLING DEBIAN LINUX

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Mickelberry, Travis L wrote: > WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL LINUX EVERYTHING GOES FINE UNTIL I HAVE TO REBOOT > THE MACHINE...I MADE A BOOT FLOPPY AND IT TELLS ME TO LEAVE IT IN...SO > THEN I REBOOT AND IT SAYS LOADING LINUX...THEN IT SAY UNCOMPESSING LINUX > AND IT GET STUCK AND JUS

TROUBLE INSTALLING DEBIAN LINUX

1998-10-18 Thread Mickelberry, Travis L
WHEN I TRY TO INSTALL LINUX EVERYTHING GOES FINE UNTIL I HAVE TO REBOOT THE MACHINE...I MADE A BOOT FLOPPY AND IT TELLS ME TO LEAVE IT IN...SO THEN I REBOOT AND IT SAYS LOADING LINUX...THEN IT SAY UNCOMPESSING LINUX AND IT GET STUCK AND JUST SITS THERE WITH TO FLOPPY DISK ACTIVITY...I HAVE TRIED 4

Still having trouble installing Debian.

1998-10-05 Thread Monte Copeland
Let me try this again. It appears that my previous email was not completely sent. I have been trying to install Debian Linux for over a week now. First after downloading and installing the base system, I began to go through the pppconfig routine but I found out that every time that I tried to log

Having trouble installing Debian.

1998-10-04 Thread Monte Copeland
Ok , this is a long one. I am new to installing Debian Linux. I tried to install it by directly connecting to the ftp site using ppp . But I kept getting disconected. ( That is another story. ) So I decided to download all of the Debian files through WS_FTP in Win 95. I thought I would be able

Trouble installing debian from floppy

1997-04-08 Thread Richard Collins
When installing the base system with the graphical installer from floppy I get the error message: usage: floppy_merge device There is a problem extracting the floppy from . When I run floppy merge from a shell with: floppy_merge dev/fd0 It seems to work fine, that is sends loads of garbage to

Re: Trouble installing debian from floppy

1996-11-25 Thread Bruce Perens
> crc error <5>VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER. CRC error means a physical bad block on the floppy. It's attempting to read the compressed root filesystem at this point. If that fails, nothing will work the next time it prompts for ENTER, as it then tries to read an uncompressed root files

Trouble installing debian from floppy

1996-11-25 Thread Mritunjay Singh
I've been trying to do so using floppies whose raw images I ftped. I think there is a problem with getting these images copied on the floppies...I'm using a Unix system to make these floppies..and I think it automatically MOUNTS the image onto the DOS floppy. When trying to boot from these flop