Aye, it does sound like you have quite a mess on your hands. My personal _recommendation_ (do not take this as law) would be to start from scratch, and use one of the beta Sarge installers. You'll find Sarge far more up-to-date, with support for 2.6 kernels and Nforce chipsets right out the gate.
Again, this is just a recommendation, and I'm no holy guru to blindly follow the word of. Best of luck to you. ~Zaq --- "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? > > 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? > > 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? > > Thanks, all, for your patience. I hope I see > some answers before I > do something more silly than what I've already done > here. > > -- > 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! > > > > > begin:vcard > fn:David A. Cobb > n:Cobb;David A. > adr:;;7 Lenox Av #1;West Warwick;RI;02893-3918;USA > email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > title:Independent Software Consultant > note:PGP Key ID#0x4C293929 effective 01/28/2004 > x-mozilla-html:TRUE > version:2.1 > end:vcard > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
