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Ok thanks LorKorub / BOB,
Ill try that soon, but im not to sure if that will work because I may have the same debian linux cd as you but I cannot install anything off it. For example I type "tasksel" and try to install a few important files and this message comes up
Error:Illegal request -- (Sense Key=0x05)
Illegal mode for this track or incompatiable medium -- (asc=0x04, ascq=0x00)
So I cant install anything, then I try this "apt-get install kde or any package like that and the same message comes up. So do I have to install all these packages off the internet?
I think there could be something wrong with the CD, its not damaged or anything but this is just not usual.
And YES I am very keen to learn how to use this OS, I cant be bothered using Mandrake or Redhat if they are not the best, and if I cant get help from people like you there's no pint in it.
Post back and tell me how I should install these.
Thanks
LorKorub:
hmmm...
Tasksel should run fine. You are running it as root, I take it?
You might have a corrupted CD-Rom if you are getting an error message about the medium that you are using.
Taskel needs to be the first thing you run because that it what installs the X window system. When you try to run X, do you just type startx at the prompt? If so what happens?
If you already have X running, then it is just a matter of configuring your internet service and adding some apt sources to /etc/apt/sources.list.
Try to run X and post the error message that you are getting, if you are getting one.
LorKorub:
quote:Ill try that soon, but im not to sure if that will work because I may have the same debian linux cd as you but I cannot install anything off it.
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Shit...sorry man, I didn't read the first statement too cleary.
All you *SHOULD* have to do then is configure /etc/apt/sources.list. You're using Debian 3.0 Woody from www.linuxiso.org? If so, just use my sources.list file:
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
I commented out the first three, as those are net sources (you can fuck with those later, once you get a base install going.) Just edit /etc/apt/sources.list and put in all of those CD-Rom entries. Then do apt-get update, so apt can build its database list.
Once that is completed (it will probably have to scan all of your CDs), you can then do an apt-get install KDE2 or apt-get install afterstep, or whatever desktop environment you want to use. Even if X isn't installed, I believe apt will solve any dependency problems (correct me if I am wrong, anyone...) That is part of the beauty of Debian. The packaging system crushes anything else out there.
When you run apt-get install, it will just ask you for the respective cd. Just put it in, hit enter, and you should be rolling. If it installs X, which I think it should, then you have to configure X as listed above.
[ December 01, 2002: Message edited by: LorKorub / BOB ]
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