Re: Hello! from a newbie+ problems with debian for amd64+can't boot debian for i386 on amd64 from cd+can't extract sbm.bin from cd
Hello...
Just to add my little bit...
I recently bought a new machine, which was NForce4 based, like yours.
When I did my net install, it could not get an address (DHCP, from a
machine on my internal net). I didn't set it manually.
Instead, I went to a terminal (hit CTRL+ALT+F2 during the install).
Perusing dmesg revealed that eth0 was the ieee1394 (firewire) ethernet
- which I was not using.
modprobe -r'ed the appropriate modules to make it free eth0, and then
I modprobed "forcedeth", which registered itself as eth0. After that,
CTRL+ALT+F1 back into the install, and retry the automatic network
setup. Worked perfectly after that.
I don't recall if forcedeth was already loaded as eth1 - if so, just
modprobe -r that as well, and then reinsert it once the eth0 slot is
free.
(I was impressed that I could do this - I can't think of too many
other installers that would allow sorting out of a problem like this
that early in the install).
Hope this helps someone else...
Daniel Foote.
On 11/28/05, Martin Baldan <martinobal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> >>1) Why don't I have permission to extract the "sbm.bin" file? How can I
> >> solve that?
> >Don't think its a good way to trying to extract something, may
>
> >you've burned your cd in a wrong way. Did you setup your
> >burning software in the correct way to create a bootable image?
> Definitely! A while later I realised I was dumbly copying
> the ".iso" file to a cd instead of burning an image.
> Besides, I was trying to extract the file into the cd-rom instead of, say,
> the desktop.
> Anyway, I've finally burnt the cd and it more or less works
> (though I had to type "linux26",otherwise it wouldn't recognise my ethernet
> card) Now the problem is that I can't connect to the mirrors to complete the
> installation (it says "temporal error").
>
> I had to set the internet configuration manually, so I may have done a
> mistake, but I don't know where.
> I'm re-installing the amd64 version, which at least can set the internet
> configuration automatically,
>
> and download nearly all packages (except security updates, among others
> !!).
> >if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew debian
> etch
>
>
>
>
> >should be finished in december, and there amd64 should be one of the
> standard
> >supported systems.
>
> That's cool! I thought it would take a bit longer.
> Anyway, I have nothing better to install on my drive,
>
> so I'll try to get used to Debian now,
> and then, when Etch is released, I'll give it a try.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
>
Reply to: