Hello... Just to add my little bit...
I recently bought a new machine, which was NForce4 based, like yours. When I did my net install, it could not get an address (DHCP, from a machine on my internal net). I didn't set it manually. Instead, I went to a terminal (hit CTRL+ALT+F2 during the install). Perusing dmesg revealed that eth0 was the ieee1394 (firewire) ethernet - which I was not using. modprobe -r'ed the appropriate modules to make it free eth0, and then I modprobed "forcedeth", which registered itself as eth0. After that, CTRL+ALT+F1 back into the install, and retry the automatic network setup. Worked perfectly after that. I don't recall if forcedeth was already loaded as eth1 - if so, just modprobe -r that as well, and then reinsert it once the eth0 slot is free. (I was impressed that I could do this - I can't think of too many other installers that would allow sorting out of a problem like this that early in the install). Hope this helps someone else... Daniel Foote. On 11/28/05, Martin Baldan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > >>1) Why don't I have permission to extract the "sbm.bin" file? How can I > >> solve that? > >Don't think its a good way to trying to extract something, may > > >you've burned your cd in a wrong way. Did you setup your > >burning software in the correct way to create a bootable image? > Definitely! A while later I realised I was dumbly copying > the ".iso" file to a cd instead of burning an image. > Besides, I was trying to extract the file into the cd-rom instead of, say, > the desktop. > Anyway, I've finally burnt the cd and it more or less works > (though I had to type "linux26",otherwise it wouldn't recognise my ethernet > card) Now the problem is that I can't connect to the mirrors to complete the > installation (it says "temporal error"). > > I had to set the internet configuration manually, so I may have done a > mistake, but I don't know where. > I'm re-installing the amd64 version, which at least can set the internet > configuration automatically, > > and download nearly all packages (except security updates, among others > !!). > >if you are a real newby, you may wait until december. As I knew debian > etch > > > > > >should be finished in december, and there amd64 should be one of the > standard > >supported systems. > > That's cool! I thought it would take a bit longer. > Anyway, I have nothing better to install on my drive, > > so I'll try to get used to Debian now, > and then, when Etch is released, I'll give it a try. > > Thanks for your help! > > Regards, > > > > >
