Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?
>Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:55:59 -0600
>From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
>To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: base system, no x windows yet,HOW?
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>ts wrote:
>>At first I ventured into debian installation ( via networking)again,
>>the embeded LAN chips(RTL8201BL , RTL8101L) of current EPOX-8RDA3G motherboard (nforce2 Ultra 400 +MCP chipsets) >can't be detected whatever kernel driver modules I set on.
>>
>>later on I nearly fulfilled debian's installation from hard disk by downloading
>>"rescue.bin"&"root.bin"(from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/...ges-1.44/bf2.4/ )
>>"drivers.tgz"( from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/.../current/bf2.4/)
>>"basedebs.tar"-27M
>>(from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/....23-2002-07-18/)
>>and following up the prompts.
>>.
>>Now it's only a base system, I can login under console....
>>no x windows yet , what left packages should I download & install under console ?is it possible to make networking >chips work and make rest of installation via network and upgrade kernel to latest 2.6.3? and how to do it under console >?with commands?
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>-I'm not sure what modules you'll need for your LAN, but a quick google
>indicates it might be the "8139too". Try "modprobe 8139too".
>You can also try "lspci"; if it reports "unknown device", you'll
>probably need to upgrade your kernel (which you're wanting to do anyway).
>You can also look to see what modules are available under
>/lib/modules/[kernel version]/kernel.
Thanks for your reply!
Your adivices 're realy helpful, by typing " lspci" system indicated the NIC is 8139too, at "eth0"...
it's available under /lib/modules/kernel 2.4.18/kernel.
But when I tried to ping my local ISP's IP& gateway's IP, ended up with no reply, within Lan "ping 192.168.1.2"& "ping 192.168.1.0"it did respond.
Do you think I should download the tar file (NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz )
From(http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.tar.gz) or
Source RPM file (NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm) from (http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.src.rpm) and install it and thus set proper configuration of EPOX-8RDA3G MB& its NIC lan?
>You can also try booting off a Knoppix CD to see what modules it uses
>(assuming it works on the network). If it works on the network, you can
>download and manually install any packages for upgrading your kernel
>(and it's painful, but do-able).
>Once you have networking, and have configured your /etc/apt/sources.list
>file to pull from the network, you can "apt-get update" followed by
>"apt-get install x-window-system" to start making progress on getting X
>up and running.
>--
>Kent
tom
6/3/2004
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