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Debian Pure - Installation problem
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| Debian Pure installation didn't work - probably because I didn't
understand the instructions properly. Here are the instructions from
www.debianpure.com :
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CD Installation Instructions:
1. Boot the CD and follow the prompts until you reach the base
configuration menu after the first reboot. Be sure to remove the
CD when the installer ejects it.
2. Proceed through the base configuration until you are prompted to
select an Apt Configuration. At this point, select Cancel
and choose Finish Base Configuration from the menu options.
3. The system will now install the necessary packages.
4. As the install proceeds, you will be prompted to answer questions
regarding the X Windows System. Be sure to answer all
questions to ensure proper system install. If you have trouble with the
display, see the FAQs.
5. Upon finishing, the system should reboot. Once the system has
rebooted, you should be presented with a graphical login
screen.
You now have a Debian proper system installed. Enjoy!
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All went well until step 2.
The system *did not* "install the necessary packages" as described in 3
above.
All that happened was that I got a non-graphical login prompt - and I
hadn't the foggiest idea of what to do!
I went through the whole thing again - with the same results!
What might I have done wrong?
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Chris
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| Madhusudan Singh 2005-10-07, 5:51 pm |
| Chris wrote:
> Debian Pure installation didn't work - probably because I didn't
> understand the instructions properly. Here are the instructions from
> www.debianpure.com :
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From the website, it seems that debianpure is a new project intended to make
life easier for a newbie. It seems it did not do that in your case. I would
recommend that you stick to Debian's official images.
In particular, from here :
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
Just curious - why did you even mess with debianpure ?
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| On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:14:48 -0400, Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Chris wrote:
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> From the website, it seems that debianpure is a new project intended to make
> life easier for a newbie. It seems it did not do that in your case. I would
> recommend that you stick to Debian's official images.
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> In particular, from here :
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> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
He's allready got a (bootable) dvd-image of Debian Sarge.
> Just curious - why did you even mess with debianpure ?
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Frank Van Damme
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| In article <434682c2$0$49008$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Madhusudan Singh
<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> writes
>Chris wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>From the website, it seems that debianpure is a new project intended to make
>life easier for a newbie. It seems it did not do that in your case. I would
>recommend that you stick to Debian's official images.
>In particular, from here :
>http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>Just curious - why did you even mess with debianpure ?
I've been going backwards and forwards between Sarge and Debian Pure and
Ubuntu - in a desperate attempt to find *anything* that will work!
Ubuntu 5.10 RC did install - but freezes often and at random - and I
have to hit the reset button to get it back.
I'll have another go at Sarge - but I wish I knew what tiny thing I am
doing wrong. It shouldn't be this hard!
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Chris
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| Bernhard Kastner 2005-10-07, 5:52 pm |
| Chris wrote:
> [ Problems ]
> I've been going backwards and forwards between Sarge and Debian Pure and
> Ubuntu - in a desperate attempt to find *anything* that will work!
> [ Problems ]
try something which is really easy to use and has already loads of
useful packages installed.
I would recommend Kanotix (kanotix.com) or knoppix.
Both base on Debian and are easy to use but also allow advanced tweaking
after HD-install.
Especially Kanotix has a very good hardware-recognision.
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| In article <4346bd90$0$49020$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Bernhard Kastner
<0wn4g3@gmx.at> writes
>Chris wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>try something which is really easy to use and has already loads of
>useful packages installed.
>I would recommend Kanotix (kanotix.com) or knoppix.
>Both base on Debian and are easy to use but also allow advanced
>tweaking after HD-install.
>Especially Kanotix has a very good hardware-recognision.
OK - I probably will do that - but I'm having one last go at Sarge.
Dogged determination has set in - and may well last a whole half-hour!
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Chris
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| Madhusudan Singh 2005-10-07, 5:52 pm |
| Chris wrote:
> In article <4346bd90$0$49020$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Bernhard Kastner
> <0wn4g3@gmx.at> writes
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> OK - I probably will do that - but I'm having one last go at Sarge.
> Dogged determination has set in - and may well last a whole half-hour!
It shouldn't need any. The network install takes a total of about an hour
and I have deployed many systems with Sarge without any hassles.
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| In article <4346c4cd$0$49018$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Madhusudan Singh
<spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> writes
>Chris wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
>It shouldn't need any. The network install takes a total of about an hour
>and I have deployed many systems with Sarge without any hassles.
Thanks for your support. I have actually got somewhere at last.
See my new thread giving a diary account of what happened.
Most of the time I was nonplussed - but it came out in the end -
although you may be able to see lots of bad choices that I made.
Please mention them.
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Chris
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| Robert Glueck 2005-10-10, 5:48 pm |
| Chris wrote:
> What might I have done wrong?
I actually had no problems with installing Debianpure, and
I'm delighted with it and highly recommend it.
I've been using Xandros (a Debian variant) most of the time
and at various times installed Debians such as Libranet,
Mepis, etc., and I've also been running live CD's of
Knoppix, Kanotix, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and a dozen other
Debians, you name it.
I've been wanting to install 100% Debian for a while but
shied away from it because I thought the install would be
tedious. So I jumped at Debianpure because this CD simply
makes it much easier to install a pure Debian system with an
excellent choice of base packages. You can then customize
it to your heart's content with Synaptic.
Another "distro" that does just that, i.e. give you a 100%
Debian system with rather little pain is Zen Linux which
I've also installed in another partition of my Linux HDD
(I've got 8 different Linux distros installed on this drive).
I'd be hard pressed which of these two ways of painlessly
getting Debian I would recommend more. Perhaps Zen Linux is
more complete; it's bigger (a 1.2 GB DVD), gives you more
packages and more than half a dozen different windows
managers. It's nice for playing around with all of this but
perhaps I prefer the leaner base install of Debianpure with
just Gnome and Fluxbox to which I would add a small set of
extra apps rather than having to remove a lot of unnecessary
stuff to trim the install down to size.
Robert
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| In article <6rOdnd2Gkr9nR9feRVn-tA@rcn.net>, Robert Glueck <rglk@web.de>
writes
>Chris wrote:
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>I actually had no problems with installing Debianpure, and I'm
>delighted with it and highly recommend it.
Could you please give your personal instructions, which will probably be
more complete than the few lines on the Debian Pure site.
>I've been wanting to install 100% Debian for a while but shied away
>from it because I thought the install would be tedious. So I jumped at
>Debianpure because this CD simply makes it much easier to install a
>pure Debian system with an excellent choice of base packages. You can
>then customize it to your heart's content with Synaptic.
Well - I was completely baffled by the install of Debian Pure, whereas
the install of actual Debian was easier - though confusing.
>Another "distro" that does just that, i.e. give you a 100% Debian
>system with rather little pain is Zen Linux
I might have a look at that. Hadn't heard of it until now.
But it seems a good idea to go for something well-known, because then
you can ask questions about it, and many people will be able to help.
I wanted to use Ubuntu - but, although the install was easy, the system
kept locking up often and at random.
>which I've also installed in another partition of my Linux HDD (I've
>got 8 different Linux distros installed on this drive).
I hadn't thought of doing that - and it's a good idea.
I have an 80 GB HDD and I suppose that would take XP and a couple of
distros and a FAT32 partition to share between them.
Do you keep installing GRUB to the MBR and letting it add to its menu?
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Chris
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| Robert Glueck 2005-10-12, 5:59 pm |
| Chris wrote:
> In article <6rOdnd2Gkr9nR9feRVn-tA@rcn.net>, Robert Glueck <rglk@web.de>
> writes
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> Could you please give your personal instructions, which will probably be
> more complete than the few lines on the Debian Pure site.
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> Well - I was completely baffled by the install of Debian Pure, whereas
> the install of actual Debian was easier - though confusing.
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> I might have a look at that. Hadn't heard of it until now.
> But it seems a good idea to go for something well-known, because then
> you can ask questions about it, and many people will be able to help.
> I wanted to use Ubuntu - but, although the install was easy, the system
> kept locking up often and at random.
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> I hadn't thought of doing that - and it's a good idea.
> I have an 80 GB HDD and I suppose that would take XP and a couple of
> distros and a FAT32 partition to share between them.
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> Do you keep installing GRUB to the MBR and letting it add to its menu?
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I've posted a reply in your thread "Diary of a Debian sarge
install", dated 10/11/05.
Robert
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| Michael Thomas 2005-10-12, 5:59 pm |
| On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:03:04 +0100, Chris <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
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>I might have a look at that. Hadn't heard of it until now.
>But it seems a good idea to go for something well-known, because then
>you can ask questions about it, and many people will be able to help.
>I wanted to use Ubuntu - but, although the install was easy, the system
>kept locking up often and at random.
I had the same issue with Ubuntu on a IBM ThinkCentre until I ran
apt-get to upgrade the distro, which grabbed the newest kernel among
other things. I don't know which package made the difference, and
there were a lot, but once it was updated it ran great.
I'm playing around with Sarge now.
MT
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