Re: Help! Problems installing a new debian 3.0 woody
On (01/12/04 12:49), Katrien de Vos wrote:
> Yesterday I received 4 CD's of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" for i386.
> Enthousiatically I started to install.
> I am an experienced Windows XP user and (at home) I have a notebook PC
> (Celeron II, 667 MHz).
> Partitioning was no problem. I even used a second terminal (Ctrl + Alt
> + F2) to initialize an ext3-filesystem. I made a boot floppy and
> rebooted the system. Before I told the system to boot from harddisk
> using the SHIFT-key. This didn't wordk. The system started windows and
> got trouble (endless restarts). I fixed the windows-system by using F8
> and went into the safe mode. This solved (luckily) my windows-problem.
> In stead of the SHIFT-key I had to use F8 . Now I could boot the
> debian-system. But problems just started (and I have reinstalled many
> times and tried different approaches)!
> 1. Configuring PCMIA: I entered this list, marked the entry, but the
> system didn't react on pressing any key (in windows one would say it
> hanged. I found de Ctrl Alt Delete the only way out. So I skipped this
> part in the next installation..
> 2. My network-interface card was not recognized. Trying to choose the
> Realtek RTL8139 from a list didn't help. I was asked for options, but I
> don't know what is needed. (I have a Sweex 32 bit; compatible to Realtek
> RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC.
> 3. I skipped this. So I could not install my adsl-modem (perhaps I get
> problems at that stage too). I had to give a hostname.
> 4. Now the system collects a installation list from the 3 CD's. and for
> simplicity, I ordered to install X-windows and the other standard items.
> 5. During installing the system tell me it has a problem which is due
> to kernel . I have to remove the line '*(.text.exit)' in 'DISCARD' from
> arch/i386/vmlinux.lds. How I do this is a riddle and at this stage
> impossible.
> 6. Than I have to configure the locales and make a choice. But this list
> hangs the system too (no reaction on any key) .. Ctrl Alt Delete was the
> only way out..
> 7. So I am in endless loop and can not get to the next problem (of
> course I don't really hope this will be the case).
> 8 I tried the standard flavor and vanilla. It did not help.
You would probably have more success with the new sarge installer
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Sarge is the next stable release and the installer is a significant
improvement over woody's.
Regards
Clive
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