Re: Newbie problems galore
Ryan Waye wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, 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?
There are literally tons of guides on this. Just google it and you
will get all the info you need
More than I need. That's the problem. And Googling Debian.org for
"nVidia" what I find is a thousand reasons to wish I had either a newer
kernel or a different card-set.
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?
I am pretty sure linux can read the default FAT32 and NTFS partitions
without any trouble, but I may be wrong.
Half and half. VFAT is built into the kernel and accesses FAT32; NTFS
is there but is unhappy with my partitions. Perhaps because of a
version difference (NTFS 2.1 in WinXP - mine, vs NTFS 2.0 in WinNT 4,
Win98). Anyway, what I read on line makes me nervous about allowing my
NTFS partitions to be mounted "R/W" from Linux.
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?
No! Don't start over, anything can be fixed. Try these commands in
this order:(As superuser)
apt-get clean
apt-get check
apt-get dist-upgrade
post the results of these commands here.
<snip>
Ryan Waye
The result of those was several screens full sailing by. However, when
I used aptitude to look over the situation, the things that were iffy
before are still marked and aptitude still hangs after printing
"Preconfiguring modules . . .".
Because of the total of these things, I'm going back to the CD's this
time only.
--
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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