Re: Installation Problem

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Faiz ul Haque Zeya wrote:

>  Hello,
>         I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from  CD
> 
> 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during installation 
>     but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots 
>     correctly but then it stopped displaying the following:
> 
>    VFS: Mounted root <msdos file system> readonly
>    Unable to open an initial console
> 
>    How to correct it ?. Why msdos is shown as the filesystem instead of ext2
>    (floppy booting shows ext2) .  Is this a problem  due to LILO

What does /etc/lilo.conf look like? It sounds like you specified the wrong
partition for root.

> 
> 2. The X configuration file  can not be  created during installation and hence
>     Xserver cannot be started form xdm.
>     How it can be created manually. Do  I have to reinstall .
>     
Which packages did you install? 

Once you have all of the needed packages installed you can run
xbase-configure to create a configuration file.

> 
> 3.   Thirdly I want to know how to use X without mouse . . What should be
>      done to use mouse  funcions through keyboard ?.
> 
This one I have no idea about...sorry.

Luck,

Dwarf
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