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Re: hanging up during debian install??



On Wednesday 19 December 2012 22:58:07 salamandir wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:36:30 PM, Lisi Reisz, an eminent
>
> manifestation of divinity, wrote:
> > What is "Squeeze '2'" (live or otherwise)?  What does the "2" mean?
>
> i don't remember the link i got "Squeeze 2" from, but i have seen
> references to "Squeeze 2C" and "Squeeze 2D" on this mailing list recently.

You'll have to give the references, because I certainly haven't, and in Debian 
terms it is nonsense.

> i'm sure i downloaded the ISO from the debian.com web site...
>
> my guess is that "Squeeze" was released, then "Squeeze 2", then "Squeeze
> 2B" and so forth, but, as i said, i can't currently find the URI for the
> page...

That may be your guess, but it is wrong.  Squeeze itself does not have 
numbers.  Debian has numbers, and Squeeze is the code name for Debian 6.  As 
I said, we are now up to at least Debian 6.0.6, but  it is still Debian 6.x.x 
and the code name is still Squeeze.  The next version of Debian, with a code 
name of Wheezy, will be Debian 7 when it is released.

> > You are thinking too much in Kubuntu speak.
>
> i'm doing fairly well, considering that my pre-linux language was mac or
> windows, and i have been using linux /exclusively/ since 2000 or there
> abouts...
>
> > Try using an install CD or DVD
> > if you want to install.
>
> i *AM* using an install CD, as i said in my original post.

No, you are not.  You are using a live CD.  By all means use a live CD to test 
Debian out, but installation would be better, and apparently more bug free, 
if you used an install CD.  It was principally this that I meant by 
Kubuntu-speak.

> perhaps you are thinking too much in "geek-speak" and not enough in
> "normal- people speak"...

Perhaps, but you have just told me above that you are very computer 
knowledgeable and have been using Linux for a long time.  This list is a 
technical list, so it is reasonable to use technical terms, though I don't 
think that I did so.

> > Is it perhaps faulty?  (Faulty DVD or CD, corrupted file etc.)
> >
> > Did you run a check on the CD?  I still use MD5sum, but I have to point
> > out that it is deprecated now.  The world has moved on.  I think that
> > everyone else now uses SHA-2 or even SHA-3.
>
> it validates using both MD5sum and SHA-3

So use a proper install CD. 

Lisi


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