Re: New install from businesscard distro.
On Sep 21, 2:50 pm, "j...@wexfordpress.com" <j...@wexfordpress.com>
wrote:
> I successfully installed Debian from the latest business card iso. I
> chose the networkless option, the only one that works. That is the
> good news. But here is the bad news.
>
> 1. When chose the newtworked install option it always died with the
> message, "trying to write to a read-only file." The file is allegedly
> on a read-only file system, probably my boot partition. The file name
> is something like /lib/modules/*generic-r5/modules.dep.temp (can't
> read my own writing!)
>
> 2. I do an apt-update followed by an apt-upgrade. The two packages to
> be upgraded are the kernel and the initrd file. I get a message that I
> am trying to reinstall the same version of the kernel. It also says I
> need to reboot after the upgrade finishes. But it seems to never
> finish. And I can't exit the (ncurses?) screen that tells me to wait.
> There is an <ok> tag at the the bottom but I can't get to it. When I
> check via top or ps x on another console the programs that deal with
> updating seem to be stalled permanently.
>
> 3. I have two other systems on my machine, both Slack 12. The
> autoconfigure part of grub identified /dev/hdb3 correctly but /devhda2
> was represented four times in menu.lst with various kernels
> specified. I solved the problem by reinstalling lilo from Slack but I
> thought the grub misfire deserved some attention.
>
> 4. On startup my eth0 card which is connected to the internet isn't
> activated by dhcpcd. I can click on the little icon in the upper
> right corner of the Gnome screen and select the eth0 card from the
> menu shown and then internet connection is established. But I
> shouldn't have to do this. What happens when I switch to KDE? There is
> a startup error message related to eth0 about IPV6 software not
> installed but I can't install IPV6 software until I get problem 2
> solved. Maybe I can kill the IPV6 requirement but I don't know where.
>
> Any assistance on problems 2 and 4 in particular would be appreciated.
>
> John Culleton
>
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Solved problem 2. It seems Debian upgrades more easily from the gui
than from the command line. Go figure.
Still need suggestions on problem 4.
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