[Linux-disciples] upgrading from 'demo linux' and boot problems

[karl sokol]

O.K., I don't even know where to begin except to say
that I am trying to get debian to work.  But there are
two problems. The first is trying to install linux in
such a way as that I can boot from the computer.  I
have tried three different installations [corel,
debian, and demolinux] and all three have the same
problem. When trying to install LILO, there is a
message that Cylander # is too big (1985>1023).  So, I
repartioned my Hard drive into 6 ext2 devices which
diskfree says looks like:


dev/hda1 [/boot]  438MB with 5.4% full
d/h2      [/]     486MB      8
d/h3      [/usr]  18.3GB     17.3
d/h5 (sic) [/home] 182MB	     5.2
d/h6       [/var]  942MB      14.6
d/h7       [/tmp]  45.5MB     5.2

plus swap

/boot is under 1023 cylanders, yet LILO still won't
let me park it there.  Maybe it is trying to boot from
somewhere else?  

But I can live with having to use a boot disk.  The
real problem is the catch-22 of apt.
It updates O.K., but when I attempt to install
anything, I get dependency errors.  e.g. apt-get
install sudo gives:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct
these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet
dependencies:
  debhelper: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not
going to be installed
             Depends: html2text but it is not going to
be installed
             Depends: debconf-utils but it is not
going to be installed
  dpkg-dev: Depends: perl-modules but it is not going
to be installed
  sudo: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.3-1 is to
be installed
        Depends: libpam0g (>= 0.76) but 0.72-9 is to
be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with
no packages (or specify a solution).




Trying to install the dependencies invariably ends up
in a round-robin of needing a package that I am trying
to install.

My sources.list file is...

deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
contrib
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
contrib
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
non-free contrib
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US
testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US
testing/non-US main contrib non-free

I have spent a week searching Google and my wife wants
me back!!! Any help please.

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"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?" --John Cage

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