High,
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello,
> I finally got so mad at windows last night that I tried to install
> debian. I have all 3 potato i386 cd's. Now my problem is this; I cant
> get anything to work properly. First I cant get my networking up. I have
> a 3com 3c905-C TX. Now yes I know which module to use, but I cant get it
> to load properly. For that matter I cant get any module to load
> properly. Only the basic stuff loads. This greatly upsets me. Also
# insmod 3c59x
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
# route add default gateway 192.168.1.254 eth0 (edit
/etc/network/interfaces if this works)
does not work? What are the error messages. Was the installation
succesfull, that is, you are out of the install stage and have Debian
running?
> similarly disturbing is that I cant get LILO to boot my windows
> partitions(win98). May be I've been away from linux too long and windows
> has corrupted me, but if I remember correctly, the primary slave is
> hdb. I've told LILO that it should boot hdb and I've also tried
> hdb1. Whenever I select that option it just says loading win98, and then
> the entire system freezes up. This is really disturbing to me. I am
Relax. This is windoze shit, it wants to be on the first drive. You can
either swap drives (make hda your windoze drive) or use this lilo trick:
other=/dev/hdb1
label=doz
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
this swaps the drives on the BIOS level. Works ok.
> currently on a university computer downstairs and its annoying me. All I
> want is some help with getting my network adapter up and running and LILO
> working properly and I will be fine from there(I think). I would
> appreciate anyone willing to help me. And before someone mails the list
> telling me to read the manual, that is what I am most likely doing at this
> time, but I was hoping that someone could provide me with a little help
> because I was up all last night trying to fix this and I am not in the best
> condition to be reading manuals. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
--
NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem
(also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the windoze 95/98
16-bit Subsystem. Anyone can see that 16+16=32, so windoze NT is a
*real* 32-bit system.
