David A. Cobb wrote:
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.
You might be able to get your network working, in which case you won't need to reboot into Windows.
Run "lspci" to see what type of Ethernet device you have, then run "modprobe" to install the correct driver for it. You might then need to modify /etc/network/interfaces (see "man interfaces" for examples) and restart networking (/etc/init.d/networking stop && /etc/init.d/networking start).
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?
Once you have networking working, just "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.26-i386" (although I suspect you really want the i686 variant instead of i386).
I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze.
If your Windows system is on FAT32 (not NTFS), no problem. If it is on NTFS, you'll need to create a "shared" FAT32 partition.
To mount a FAT32 partition, you can do something similar to:
mount /dev/hda1 /home/superbskt/MyWinFiles
(assuming you've created a "MyWinFiles" directory in your home directory, and assuming Windows is on /dev/hda1).
You can modify /etc/fstab to do this for you automatically if you want.
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?
Without knowing what you mean when you say "hork up", it's hard to say. I will say that it's almost never necessary to wipe/rebuild a Debian box (although sometimes it's easier to do that, depending on circumstances / skill level / etc).
-- Kent
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