Presario 2105us

**phaedral** · 09-10-2004, 04:12 PM

v3.2 works fine; v 3.6 gives a splash screen, waits for my to hit enter, then freezes, blank. I was happy with 3.2, except it doesn't come with perl-doc and I've wasted God alone knows how many hours diddling with dselect, apt-get, dpkg trying to get perl-doc installed. This might be merely a reflection of my competence.

Requesting pointers of two sorts: 1.) How to get perl-doc going on a 3.2 install (apt-get install perl-doc is no good) or 2.) How to get 3.6 running on this machine; what cheat codes, etc.

Many many thanks to all.

**mzilikazi** · 09-10-2004, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by phaedral

This might be merely a reflection of my competence.

Heheh that's funny.

Requesting pointers of two sorts: 1.) How to get perl-doc going on a 3.2 install (apt-get install perl-doc is no good) or 2.) How to get 3.6 running on this machine; what cheat codes, etc.

Many many thanks to all.

If apt-get update && apt-get install perl-doc isn't working then something's wrong. What error are you getting when you try to install perl-doc?

It works for me:

Code:

# apt-get install perl-doc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  groff
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  perl-doc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 7051kB of archives.
After unpacking 12.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://archive.progeny.com unstable/main perl-doc 5.8.4-2.2 [7051kB]
Fetched 7051kB in 22s (308kB/s)                                                
Selecting previously deselected package perl-doc.
(Reading database ... 51188 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl-doc (from .../perl-doc_5.8.4-2.2_all.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/perldoc to /usr/bin/perldoc.stub by perl-doc'
Setting up perl-doc (5.8.4-2.2) ...

**dgorley** · 09-10-2004, 10:55 PM

Try booting 3.6 with these parameters:

Code:

nolapic acpi=on nodma

I've got a 2140, and it took me a long time before I found those options, but they seem to work perfectly.

**firebyrd10** · 09-10-2004, 11:14 PM

Are you running live-cd?

If so you can't install anything.

I'm just guessing because you talk about the differnt versions.

**phaedral** · 09-11-2004, 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by dgorley

Try booting 3.6 with these parameters:

Code:

nolapic acpi=on nodma

Tried it; give me:

Code:

Can't find image nolapic

Sorry, new to this forum, trying to answer all replies in this one post. I was trying to install perl-doc on an hdd install of knoppix 3.2.

Trying

Code:

apt-get install perl-doc

gets me

Code:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  perl-doc: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.1-8.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken pakages

I've tried apt-get update. I've tried apt-get -f install. I've tried dpkg --configure -a; all from either error messages or howtos.

Code:

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

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**dgorley** · 09-11-2004, 12:58 AM

Sorry I wasn't more specific - you still need the image name, so enter:

Code:

knoppix nolapic acpi=on nodma

or

Code:

knoppix26 nolapic acpi=on nodma

**phaedral** · 09-11-2004, 01:46 AM

Code:

knoppix nolapic acpi=on nodma

Duh. No need for you to aplogize; I should know better. Thanks; I'll post a toot sometime tomorrow when I get to work on this some more. Rock on.

**phaedral** · 09-11-2004, 04:35 AM

Hooty-hoo! Thanks for the cheat-code; I'm looking at knx3.6 as I type.

Too bad it doesn't seem to have perldoc...but that's now another problem for another day. Thanks again for all the help!