-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:37 pm, Eliot Stock wrote: > Hello, > > I have a network card not supported by the sarge netinst CD, but > would like to do a net install anyway. > > The documentation on the CD is the same as the install docs on > debian.org. Section 10.4, Preloading Existing Modules, tells me to do > this: > > Extract the kernel and modules for the flavor that you want to > install with... > > su > tar -zxvf > /cdrom/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4/drivers.tgz > tar -zxvf modules.tgz > less lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/modules.dep > > but there are no such files on my CD, presumably because these docs > were written with the full install CDs in mind, not the netinst. > > I have a kernel image, source, and headers installed already that's > the same as the one the net installer uses (2.4.22-1-386). Can't I > just build my nic driver against these and put them on a floppy? > Which files to I put on the floppy? Just nvnet.o? Is that all a > 'kernel module' is, the .o file? > > Thanks, > > Eliot Stock.
I had this experience, tried the business card cd and found a lack of nic card drivers for my card. Tried the netinstall cd and the boot kernel didn't have my nic card module either but there is a new kernel on this cd that you can install that has a full compliment of modules. Maybe this fits your issue. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jh2Rk7rtxKWZzGsRAlJBAJ0RUYhMIx9Y4Phmq/bic7o7Nztr9gCbB9Zy J9dpU9VfQz1YO5JcA7RG9Pk= =JbMQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
