problem with net installation....plz help

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panini · #1 Post by **panini** » 2005-10-10 21:01

i just installed debian base system using the net install.
i have a lan internet connection ,so decided to install in this way.
now, when i boot into debian after the basic system install,while doing the apt configuration ,it wont connect to any of the http or ftp websites listed by it in the menu for my region(Germany)......it always gives the same error connection times out, cannot fetch!
please some one suggest me as to rectify this problem.
one more big problem i have got on my hands is that ,the fedora core 4 on my system no longer boots.(before installing debian ,i had windows xp and fedora core 4 on my system.....windows still boots up and is fine!)
when i boot up in fedora it says something about SElinux and would not proceed .
please someone give the input about the problem.

startx · #2 Post by **startx** » 2005-10-11 09:10

..it always gives the same error connection times out, cannot fetch!
please some one suggest me as to rectify this problem.

well, can you ping other websites/servers(IP adresses). is your network generally working?

how did you get your IP, by dhcp?

panini · #3 Post by **panini** » 2005-10-11 11:13

hi...thanx for your reply...
i have not tested the pinging to other networks......but as it seems to give the same error for all the ip addresses it tries to connect i think ,it might not be working!
but my network usually works quite well and i havent yet encountered any problems....
i got my ip from DHCP

startx · #4 Post by **startx** » 2005-10-11 11:24

addresses it tries to connect i think ,it might not be working!

run "dhclient" as root and see if you get an ip adress.

panini · #5 Post by **panini** » 2005-10-11 23:07

thanx for your help.......
well, after spending lot of time i was able to finally install debian on my system!
the srory so far is as follows-
i tried to install with the "expert26" mode at the boot prompt.....but it gave me the error message that "via -rhine " network driver is not available......i proceeded....later again it gave me the error message saying that cdrom contains a non debian cd and installation step failed!
i decided to try the "testing" version of the netinstall cd...i think its "etch" and not sarge.....
everything went well except for the fact that grub bootloader didnt recognise windows xp on my system.(it recognised only fedora core 4)
at that step of installation, i decided to load the "LILO" boot loader instead.......and finished the installation.
(i can mount the partitions containing windows and fedora in the debian after logging in)
now when i boot the system ,LILO directly boots the debian linux and doesnt offer me any choice for booting either windows or fedora on my system.
how can i include the other two operating systems in the lilo boot menu?
i have installed gnome desktop.
but there are few problems.....
it gives the error saying "no volume control elements or devices found"
it doesnt show volume control in the toolbar.
i can play the video file from totem player....but when i go to the full screen mode ......video plays in the sluggish manner.....something like frames overlapping over each other rather than a smooth and continuous play......what could be the problem?

startx · #6 Post by **startx** » 2005-10-12 12:56

video plays in the sluggish manner.....something like frames overlapping over each other rather than a smooth and continuous play......what could be the problem?

well, could be the video driver.

another possibility is that cdrom or harddisk are running in a wrong mode.
(means too slow)

google for "hdparm" and try to analyse your settings with that.

Guest · #7 Post by **Guest** » 2005-10-12 14:06

thanx for your reply,
initially i manually ran the alsaconf and it went smoothly and i got the volume control on the tool bar.
but when i reboot....its gone and gnome gives the same error "no volume control elements or device found"
after rebooting i ran the "apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils". ....but it gives the same error.
i tried to install hdparm using "apt-get install hdparm".....but again it gives the error about alsa and linux sound base confuguration.....its as follows.....

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
apmd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hdparm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 51.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 197kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://debian.uni-essen.de testing/main hdparm 6.1-2 [51.7kB]
Fetched 51.7kB in 0s (348kB/s)
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
Selecting previously deselected package hdparm.
(Reading database ... 55248 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hdparm (from .../archives/hdparm_6.1-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.9b-4) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing linux-sound-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alsa-base:
alsa-base depends on linux-sound-base; however:
Package linux-sound-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alsa-utils:
alsa-utils depends on linux-sound-base (>= 1.0.9b-1); however:
Package linux-sound-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing alsa-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up hdparm (6.1-2) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-sound-base
alsa-base
alsa-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

i have tried to install ...gaim,xmms using apt-get......but in both the cases it gives error about alsa utils.(xmms gives the same error even after manually running alsaconfig)

panini · #8 Post by **panini** » 2005-10-12 14:14

thanx for your reply,
initially i manually ran the alsaconf and it went smoothly and i got the volume control on the tool bar.
but when i reboot....its gone and gnome gives the same error "no volume control elements or device found"
after rebooting i ran the "apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils". ....but it gives the same error.
i tried to install hdparm using "apt-get install hdparm".....but again it gives the error about alsa and linux sound base confuguration.....its as follows.....

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
apmd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hdparm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 51.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 197kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://debian.uni-essen.de testing/main hdparm 6.1-2 [51.7kB]
Fetched 51.7kB in 0s (348kB/s)
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
Selecting previously deselected package hdparm.
(Reading database ... 55248 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking hdparm (from .../archives/hdparm_6.1-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.9b-4) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing linux-sound-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alsa-base:
alsa-base depends on linux-sound-base; however:
Package linux-sound-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing alsa-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alsa-utils:
alsa-utils depends on linux-sound-base (>= 1.0.9b-1); however:
Package linux-sound-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing alsa-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up hdparm (6.1-2) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-sound-base
alsa-base
alsa-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

i have tried to install ...gaim,xmms using apt-get......but in both the cases it gives error about alsa utils.(xmms gives the same error even after manually running alsaconfig)