Re: ??'m using asus
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:56 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:48:46PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:24:28PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:18:56PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > > > That's not strictly true. Etch doesn't contain a kernel recent enough to
> > > > use that hardware, but that doesn't prevent anyone from installing
> > > > etch without ethernet and compile a more recent kernel later on.
> > >
> > > That's just a pain though.
> >
> > Any chance he could just use a lenny kernel?
I'd almost guarantee that with money. :-)
I had a problem with one of the old lenny kernels not working with my
Nikon D40 camera. I solved the problem by installing the sid kernel
using "dpkg -i" so I wouldn't have to muck around with sources.list.
> Probably, after you get the system installed. Doing a net install
> without a network port is a pain.
>
> One could install an old spare network card to do the install, then
> upgrade the kernel and then use the built in network I suppose.
That's probably the easiest way. If you haven't got a spare NIC handy
then second hand one from computer fairs are very cheap.
The other way (if you have a spare AMD64 system) is to install on that
system and then just move the disks. I've used that method to install
embedded systems which don't have a CDROM drive by using my laptop. Bit
of a bugger moving the disk, not as easy as plugging a spare NIC into a
PCI slot, but it works.
Steve
Reply to: