Debian VS Ubuntu

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 24 Dec 2008, 15:42

Ok, i did the boot and nuke and reinstalled Debian with the bare minimums the regular way, no server stuff, no LVM or LVM encryption, and still get that same message. I think it may have something to do with a hardware setting or hardware. Because when I had XP installed some files on the desktop when i tried to copy them for backup to my external USB drive the machine would just reboot..

Edit:: I can login via single user mode command prompt, but the gui way is giving me the error.. would it give me that error because i used the same PW for root and the main user?

Post by **bad_brain** » 24 Dec 2008, 18:37

hm, what is the output of:

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df

it displays the disk space usage...

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 24 Dec 2008, 19:17

ahhhh... ok..

wow... really? how much disck space does it take to install?

shows 0% available /dev/hda1 on a 40GB drive

edit::::::::

I used a version of Debian KDE that works great, found it in my cd folder it was the one i used last time

Post by **bad_brain** » 25 Dec 2008, 05:18

hm, I guess you maybe made an error during partitioning, because 40 GB are more than enough....I use just 20 GB for example...

Still_Learning · Post by **Still_Learning** » 25 Dec 2008, 09:00

Dont think i did an error in partitioning, i set up Debian/KDE the same way i tried to set up with etch (tried the etch install twice) kept getting that error
at gui login