Qi Wu wrote:
Hi, thanks for your reply.
The installation process did go over to the network and ask me
for a mirror site. Since I am in U.S, I first chose from one in the
list provided: (arizona and mit). And the installer said: failed to get
the package file....
And then I tried changing the mirror site to " amd64.debian.net" as
suggested by someone here, but it still didn't work. The same error
message.
I used "ifconfig" and did see the eth0 there, but somehow the
IPaddress doesn't seem to be correct, I mean we got several machines
here and I know the address should start from 128 but it showed as
172.***
I remembered to see some message during the installation, said
"DHCP configuration succeeded" so I guess it did find my network card.
Thank you.
qi
On 1/16/06, thierry <tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:
Qi
Wu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a AMD FX64 machine and I want a Linux OS on it. I tried to
> install Suse 10 but it turned out to be unstable. It would reboot
> itself when I ran some program on it. And that's why I changed to
> Debian since people said it is more stable. However, the
installation
> did not seem to be as easy as that of Suse. So I am wonder if it is
> appropiate if I ask some installation question here.
>
> I first burn two DVDs and for some reason it did not work. Then
I
> burn a net install CD and boot with it. I got the basic
installation
> done! But After rebooting, when I tried to install other things, I
> can't get the network working. I tried different mirrow sites, they
> all failed. So I guess it is someting wrong with my config.
>
> Actually, what I need is simply. A network and a windows
manager
> (KDE) so I can run some program like Matlab. The machine is at
> University, so the network should be fine. I just don't know how
> should I config it. I think I should use dhcp. It seems to me
that I
> need to make the internet work at first, then I can modify the
> sources.list and install other things.
>
> Would someone give some clue on how to do it? Thanks in advance.
>
> qi
>
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Hi
First, did the installation process went over to the network and ask you
for a mirror site? Or did it tell you that it had not found a valid
ethernet card? If so, what is your motherboard type, chipset on it? You
can get chipset and ethernet card type by typing: lspci . Mob type is
easy to have from your documentation.
Look at that and we will see after what to do.
Thierry
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First, as a good practice you should answer to the list, not to people
that tried to help you, as the thread may help other people in need.
Then, check that the mirror you choose is a primary mirror ( list here:
http://amd64.debian.net/README.mirrors.html ). Then: it happend to
myself the same problem about 2 weeks ago. I solved it by getting a
newer image of the netinstall. Also if you manage to get on the net
during the install, you may choose ( if you are installing etch) to
continu the install without rebooting the machine, and then choose to
install a desktop system, and if it is your lucky day you may have what
you need. If KDE don't want to install because of broken package, there
a work around, but we will see that if it append. Keep triing
Thierry
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