On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:22, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> Well, Thursday was supposed to be the meeting but the vice president
> couldn't come, so it's been postponed again-- it'll (maybe, hopefully)
> be Tuesday. *sigh* But I stayed and started installing Debian on one
> of the nodes-- the only thing was, I couldn't figure out what the NIC
> was and what driver it needed. That was after I replaced the bad root
> floppy (I'm doing a floppy/internet install, that's why I needed the
> network card), and had to figure out how to partition the HD. *sigh*
In Debian's current installer, use Alt-F2 to switch to a command line,
and Alt-F1 to switch back. On the command line, you can partition disks
with the 'cfdisk' command, e.g. 'cfdisk /dev/hda'.
Unfortunately, Debian's current installer doesn't autodetect hardware,
and it doesn't always provide you with enough information to figure out
the right driver on your own.
To figure out what driver to use, you can follow these steps:
1. Determine what card you have. If you have another operating
system (e.g., Windows) already installed, take note of its
configuration, particularly with regard to drivers. If it's PCI,
use the 'lspci' command. If it's ISA Plug and Play, 'cat
/proc/isapnp' to get an idea. If these do not reveal the needed
information, open up the box and look the card itself over for
any labels that identify it.
2. Determine what driver to use for it. The best way to do this is
by using 'make menuconfig' or such on an already unpacked kernel
source tree, on a machine that's already installed. Most drivers
that can be installed as modules will tell you the name of the
module in the 'Help'.
3. Select the driver in Debian's installer. If you know the exact
name of the driver, this should be straightforward. Otherwise,
look over the descriptions of the drivers, and see if you find
one that reasonably matches your hardware.
Hopefully, this situation will improve with the upcoming
debian-installer.
Alex.
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