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no software that works??

zhotrum - Sat, 2012-04-07 19:17
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Two problems #1) I live in the Philippines. Because of this downloading software takes many hours. I downloaded Debian Squeez and was very disappointed. Besides taking 2 days to get I haven't been able to find any software that is ready to run. I am not a programmer but I want to get away from the world domination of Microsoft Windows. I downloaded a list from Sourceforge that was supposed to contain all programs that are available for Debian but I can't even open that. !?!. I am very frustrated. What am I doing wrong???

Preseed

armaguedon94 - Sun, 2012-03-18 04:17
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Newly subscriber to this forum.
My question is about preseed setup.
Do you know how to skip the "erase disk (wipe)" step in the preseed file when using an install based on an "encrypted luks lvm"?

install not allow password to be entered

vaud - Sun, 2012-03-11 21:56
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iso burned to disk and installed to replace xp.Install went well to reboot,after entering user name at Debian login, program would not allow any characters to be entered at password: A reinstall made no difference. Install was made via the graphical install option. Install made on older averatec with AMD Athlon XP-M 2200, 512MB DDR and 80gb HD. Four other distros crashed in midst of install. Suggestions?

Cant boot into fresh installation of Debian

SOIMiMozO - Wed, 2012-02-08 05:00
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Hi there. I am a newbie to UNIX-like systems, and my next question will be quite foolish I guess. But still, don't know where to dig, so... Please, shed some light on it for me guys.

I have a laptop Dell XPS 1330 and I am trying to install a Debian stable on it via Netinstall. There is a WinXP installation which I don't need, so I am installing it over WinXP and putting GRUB into MBR. The installation process goes well as far as can see, but after rebooting I just can't boot into new OS. My laptop says something like "There was an error loading OS" even without showing me GRUB or anything else. After the last try, it stopped to print even this message, and all what I am getting is a blinking cursor.

Any ideas?

Trouble With Compiling OpenJDK 7u2

DigitDeb - Sat, 2012-02-04 00:02
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I'm trying to build OpenJDK 7 from source as I can't get it from the package manager and I'm being stopped by an error after I do "make all":

Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute /NO_BOOTDIR/bin/java

I downloaded this from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u2. (I can't use the package manager to install this version.)

Thanks

Booting Up From DVD Hangs on HP Proliant DL380 G4 Server

drmuzic - Thu, 2012-02-02 10:29
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Trying to install Debian 6.0.4 amd64 on:
HP Proliant Server DL380 G4 Server
Xeon 3.0GHZ/800/2M
8GB PC2-3200
2 x 36.3GB RAID 0 with HP Smart Array 6i Direct Attached Storage

I recently acquired this HP Proliant DL380 Server and I cannot get the install moving to install. This is believed to a problem with the RAID controller. As it appears Windows Server 2008 doesn't have a problem with getting the drives and editing partitions.

all hell broke loose after update

registereduser - Tue, 2012-01-10 02:28
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I download the net-install then installed. It installed only a text environment, I could login but there was no desktop or graphical interface. I realized "net install" that meant I had to be connected to the internet, so I connected and re-installed. It took 2 hours and finally booted into a gnome desktop, but it's old gnome 2 even though I download the recent image today, I thought it would be gnome3..

It couldn't see my Broadcom wi-fi so I added the repositories for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, then it found the drivers for my Wi-Fi and I installed them.

Then it said there were updates and I said okay, update... when I reboot, the desktop icons were jumping up and down in chaos and there was no gnome panel, I couldn't get anything to work.

Debian Installer doesnt find any partitions (GPT)

smajchl - Sun, 2011-12-25 12:55
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Hi everybody.
I have installed Windows 7 and i have left one partition free for future install of Debian, but there is problem that Stable version Squeeze does not recognize any partitions in the instalator. I have found on the internet that Windows 7 uses GPT partition table instead of Classical, i dont understand that, please help me how to install Debian next to WIndows 7 to be able to choose which to start?

Thank you a lot for answers, and have nice time!

Waiting for /udev to populate then restart

jhugery - Sun, 2011-10-23 19:41
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Don't know if this is the best forum for this, but can't figure out my issue. I'm installing debian squeeze (6.0.3 amd64) all seems to go OK. However when I start up the system from cold, after grub loads and the system begins to boot, the boot process gets to "Waiting for /udev to populate" then the system restarts. It may do this 4 or 5 times until it actually starts. Looking through the dmesg.0 file and the dmesg.1.gz I see that it gets to loading bluetooth before restart. I don't really know if this is related though... My rig has no bluetooth hardware in it. Googling turns up nothing. Any ideas?

Can't read from cd (DMA issue?)

captain alge - Sat, 2011-10-22 03:32
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Hey guys!

I'm having an issue trying to install debian 6.0.3, the i386 DVD version onto a Dell PowerEdge 1400SC server

The issue is when the installer reaches "installing addition components from cd". It loads a few of the components, but then freezes on "libc6-udeb" for a while, then giving me an error message saying:
"There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in the drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-ROM"

I read up on this error and believe it is caused by DMA being on, but I'm struggling to deactivate it.

I understand you disable it by going to VT2, cd /proc/ide/hdc

But then I get "-/bin/sh: cd: can't cd tp /proc/ide/hdc"

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