Bug#248998: [avl@planet.nl: Re: INSTALL REPORT]

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

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From: avl@planet.nl
Subject: Re: INSTALL REPORT
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 20:56:10 +0200
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
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Hello Martin,

Everything is working fine now. I installed this with trail and error
(learing by doing). I first worked mostly with Windows :-( Some
questions i do not understand 100%. Sorry, not yet enough linux
experience :-)

On 25 May 2004 at 10:30, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * avl@planet.nl <avl@planet.nl> [2004-05-14 14:04]:
> > Machine: shuttle an50r motherboard amd64 with samsung sata drive
> 
> Did you use those disk in SATA or in legalcy (parallel) mode?
I don't know i changed nothing on my bios and changed nothing on the default 
installation beta4 for my harddisk.
> 
> > Configure network HW:   [E]
> > FORECDETH module not loaded at boot i added forcedeth to /etc/modules
> 
> Can you try the image from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if they
> recognize this network card?
The network card is now working.

  Can you try both kernel 2.4 and kernel
> 2.6 (boot with linux and linux26; btw, do you not have a CD drive or
> why did you boot from disk?)
I could not find a working cd, and then i found this
http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=329
6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

I saw beta and take this because i had a new motherboard.
> > Mount partitions:       [E]
> > I changed grub because it points to /dev/hde and i edited fstab on
> > an other machine because i could not change it on this machine.
> 
> I'm not sure why you had to change this file.  Did it not say /dev/hde
> originally?
No /dev/hda, i think that this is because a sata disk is plugged into a sata interface, not 
into an ide interface where my cdromplayer is plugged in.
> 
> > fatal server error: no screens found
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and it works.
> 
> How did you choose to install X?  Did you use tasksel or something
> else?
Default installation i don't know what tasksel is.
> -- 
Thanks
Andre'


> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com


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