Re: installing sarge with nforce2
* David Gaudine (david@emclab.concordia.ca) wrote:
>
> Philippe Makowski wrote:
> > is the official installation cd of sarge
> > (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2
> > chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ?
> > is there a success story ?
>
> I haven't had any luck with the network adapters. However, I'm sure you'll
> be able to install. The original Woody install CD wouldn't boot with my
> A7N8X, but the R1 CD does, and I had no trouble upgrading, so hopefully
> netinst will work. For agp, I had to go from woody to sid (I skipped Sarge
> by mistake, I forgot that the next step up from stable isn't unstable). But
> I think the xfree from Sarge should be OK, if not that can be upgraded
> easily enough. But still no network, at least I couldn't get it to work.
>
>
I had it working just fine on my kids' machine (A7N266-VM), which is hooped at
the moment, though for other reasons. There was no need for anything
fancy -- I just followed the supplied instructions. I have not had to
try it on my A7N8X.
Cam
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