On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
> At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: > >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > > > >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is > >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of > >> the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. > >> menu too fast to read anything. I finished the installation, and > >> now I need to update the kernel and the drivers. I can't compile a > >> kernel (downloaded 2.0.35 src) because I don't have gcc. I can't install > >> the gcc package because I don't have network access in Linux - only under > >> Win95.A > > > >Gcc is available at sunsite.unc.edu and most of the mirrors. Download it > >w/ win95 and then use tar to "unpack" it. > > Oh. I had assumed that it had to be installed via the package route. > Silly me. > The package route is still better, but you don't have to use dselect. Download packages using Win95, then mount vfat partition from within linux and use "dpkg -i pakcagename.deb" to install it. Sergey.
