> --- "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
I went this route too when I first stuck my toes into Debian waters and what I found was that Woody (stable) wouldn't support my hardware and that it was incredibly easy to get a more recent Debian kernel online once I'd made a boot disk from the debian.org web site. The installers are great and the few issues that came up later were easy to fix with simple googling and searching the archives of lists like this one. My advice would be to scrap the Woody installation and go with the 2.4 kernel that's been recommended in other reply emails. Unless of course you enjoy futzing with stuff to try and make it work, and have lots of time on your hands, then keep what you've got and futz away! First set up with a 2.4 kernel (with vfat support for your shared partition). Then create a directory that will be a mount point for your shared partition (/windows on my PC) and know where your shared partition is (it is partition hda2 or the second partition of my first hard drive). in /etc/fstab: /dev/hda2 /windows vfat users,gid=100,uid=1000,umask=0002 0 0 /dev/hda2 is the partition /windows is the directory vfat is the Linux file system that reads FAT32 partitions users,gid=100,uid=1000,umask=0002 tells fstab to mount the partition accessible to users and to make the partition read/write I added gid=100 (group id number for users) and uid=1000 (user id for me) umask=0002 and 0 0 means . . . . I don't know what it means but it makes things work! Hope this helps and it's not over-kill. Peace, Gail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
