Re: Newbie problems galore
Aye, it does sound like you have quite a mess on your
hands.
My personal _recommendation_ (do not take this as law)
would be to start from scratch, and use one of the
beta Sarge installers. You'll find Sarge far more
up-to-date, with support for 2.6 kernels and Nforce
chipsets right out the gate.
Again, this is just a recommendation, and I'm no holy
guru to blindly follow the word of. Best of luck to
you.
~Zaq
--- "David A. Cobb" <Superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
> Hi!
> I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody"
> Official" and started to
> install it.
> First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the
> Official kernel on the CD
> is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21
> and the Debian archive
> has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to
> .26, but in the
> meanwhile I can't use X Windows and I can't access
> my NIC, so all that
> stuff requires rebooting into Windows. So, my first
> question: given the
> kernel images on
> $MIRROR/Debian/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.26-i386, how
> do
> I change my kernel?
>
> I need to pass things back-and-forth between
> Linux and Windoze. I
> see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but for
> the life of me, I
> can't find a trace of the software. It's really bad
> to have to play
> games with tar at both sides of the route in order
> not to munge up the
> "magic" pathnames. PLEASE don't tell me that the
> evil beast of Redmond
> has buried VFAT under a patent claim!! If not,
> please, where can I find it?
>
> Right now, I've managed to hork up my package
> data so dpkg gets hung
> up trying to fix things. My best bet seems to be to
> restart from
> scratch. How do I get dpkg / apt / aptitude to
> clean my machine
> totally, or what files should I remove to make all
> this stuff go away?
> Or, would it really be quicker to re-init my
> partitions and start again
> from the CD?
>
> Thanks, all, for your patience. I hope I see
> some answers before I
> do something more silly than what I've already done
> here.
>
> --
> David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access
> Advocate
> "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions
> a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French,
> Tr.
> Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
>
>
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