[olug] Re: debian

[Nathan Brown]

Nathan Brown wrote:

> I'm sorry i just cannot make tuesday nights.  I wold love to go to the
> meetings at another time such as fri or even sat afternoons but am not
> able other times ...
>
> I have a problem with debian.  I have finally gotten the
> system-to-get-the-system installed .
> to get this far i had to fool it ..  I had to combine the install from
> harddrive and the install from cdrom.  the cd rom install would not
> install the kernel and the modules and the hard drive install would not
> install my network card (smc-ultra). So I booted the install from the
> DOS drive and when I needed to install the kernel and modules I directed
> it to the cdrom and it went clear to the reboot.
> however when I got to the apt window it would not take the software off
> of the cdrom (which is a cd burned by a friend) It would connect to
> debian ftp site but it was not configured to take all of it as it's
> source from there so it needed to look into the cdrom .  It read the
> cdrom giving it's name and everything but would not actually recognize
> it as a debian cd .  So being very unfamiliar with apt I failed ...
>
> NOW I have rebooted again and cannot get the network up cannot ping
> anything cannot connect .
> no eth0 in dmesg nothing ..... It will not load linuxconf so I don't
> know now how to configure the eht0 or my card ...
> any suggestions???
> thanks
> nate


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