[SWLUG] Installing debian

[Stuart Herbert]

Strange - I'm also trying to get debian installed at the moment.

I downloaded the netinst CD image for debian-testing, and booted it under
Vmware.  Didn't get very far - the image didn't seem to recognise any of my
Vmware hard disks or Cdroms, and had a very small selection of networking
modules, so I couldn't get networking installed either.

Bit of a shock!

I couldn't find any docs about the netinst CD image on debian.org, and
Google pretty much turned up a blank.  Can anyone point me at something I've
missed?

Ta,
Stu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at swlug.org.uk
> [mailto:discuss-admin at swlug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Carter N.
> Sent: 12 February 2003 10:19
> To: discuss at swlug.org.uk
> Subject: [SWLUG] Installing debian
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Encouraged by the reports about Debian, I obtained the first
> three downloadable ISO's and the md5sums were OK.
> 
> Unfortuntately, I received a load of errors while the
> packages were being installed. I didn't install much - just 
> the X, development, and teTeX suites from the 'task' based 
> menu (I skipped the individual package selection).
> 
> The errors were bad configurations, files not found, etc. and
> seemed more likely if the PC was left for some time before 
> proceeding with the package installation stage (presumably, 
> the CD was going into power-saving mode and couldn't spin-up 
> properly).
> 
> I looped around the package installation stage several times,
> hoping each new repeat would resolve the problems of the 
> previous run, but I'm not sure this had the desired effect. 
> Now, the system boots OK into console mode, but fails to run 
> X. I've not tested any apps.
> 
> I'm going to just wipe the partition and start again, but in
> the meantime, does anyone have any suggestions about why I 
> received so many errors, and/or how to avoid them?!
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Neil
> --------------------------------------------
> Neil Carter            Psychology Department
> IT Technician    University of Wales Swansea
>                        Wales, United Kingdom
> 
http://psy.swansea.ac.uk/staff/Carter/


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