On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > 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. > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
