Re: network install over nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface
Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
Hello,
My question concerns the correct course of action when installing
Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is
through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver
provided by nVidia at
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0292
I don't think you need that driver.
without having to burn 14 CDs.
The first CD is more than sufficient to install a base system.
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I have tried to install a basic system and then worry about the driver
later, but the installation didn't work. I set up the partitions,
everything going smooth, until reboot. After reboot I got flooded with
messages like
nv_sata : Primary device mounted
nv_sata : Primary device mounted
nv_sata : Secondary device mounted
nv_sata : Secondary device mounted
nv_sata : Secondary device unmounted
nv_sata : Secondary device unmounted
nv_sata : Primary device unmounted
nv_sata : Primary device unmounted
Or maybe it was "loaded" instead of "mounted"... I forgot. Anyway,
something like that.
This appears to be a known bug in the driver. This message
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/10/msg00002.html> suggests a
solution.
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Should I just try another build of the netinstall CD or (and this
would really be sweet) is there any way to get a hold of a netinstall
CD with the forcedeth driver corresponding to the particular kernel ON
IT already...?
forcedeth has been part of the standard kernel since versions 2.4.26 and
2.6.5.
A man can dream can't he?
Oh by the way, in the meantime, grub and the master boot sector got
all messed up somewhere along the way, and so I can't even boot into
my windows partition I had installed for recovery purposes... :-) now
I lost my windows partition too.
Great.
If you have a drive larger than 137 GB (128 GiB) then you must use a 2.6
kernel to avoid disk addresses wrapping around beyond that point.
Ben.
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