Re: woody/sarge on Barton MoBo? kt600 and/or which nvidia
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:32, Kent West wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:52, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> >>
> >>>What motherboards have people had success/failures with for woody and
> >>>sarge and Bartons with a 400fsb?
> >>>
> >>>Which mobo chipsets have you had good/bad experiences with?
> >>> amd?
> >>> nvidia?
> >>> via? kt600?
> >>>
> >>>And with which kernels? I guess the woody distribution kernel would
> >>>need to run ok because that is the public ISO available?
> >>>
> >>>Thank you.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>I was just tonight trying to help a friend install Debian on his mobo
> >>with an nforce (nvidia) ethernet chipset. Suffice it to say that I will
> >>_never_ purchase an nvidia-based mobo, unless something major comes
> >>along to change my mind.
> >
> >
> > What kernel version?
> >
>
> 2.4.22-xfs originally (from Knoppix)
> 2.4.22-1-k7 (acquired from sid)
> I also tried upgrading to 2.6-test9 (acquired from sid), and that just
> froze my box; now I can't even boot back into 2.4.22 without the box
> freezing. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot/fix yet. I'll get to
> that today.
>
> Having said that, I need to qualify that the only installation media I
> had available was Knoppix 3.2 (or 3.3 - I forget). I was going to use it
> to hit the network long enough to download the few files necessary for a
> hard-drive based install of the base system and then bring the rest of
> the system up from the network, but the nic didn't work in Knoppix
> (although the nforce sound worked just fine). So I resorted to doing a
> Knoppix-based install, so there may be some bastardization in the box.
> I'm uncomfortable with the box being built on Knoppix (I had to manually
> create/move partitions around after the installation in order to segment
> them the way I like; I suspect I've got non-pure-Debian packages
> installed, etc), and am thinking about redoing it after I can get my
> hands on a Woody install CD.
>
> Eventually I took the Netgear (tulip) nic out of another box temporarily
> and put it in this box, tweaked my /etc/apt/sources.list to get rid of
Reinstall from scratch with the tulip NIC in there from the begin-
ning.
[big snippage]
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