On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:32, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:52, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > >> > >>>What motherboards have people had success/failures with for woody and > >>>sarge and Bartons with a 400fsb? > >>> > >>>Which mobo chipsets have you had good/bad experiences with? > >>> amd? > >>> nvidia? > >>> via? kt600? > >>> > >>>And with which kernels? I guess the woody distribution kernel would > >>>need to run ok because that is the public ISO available? > >>> > >>>Thank you. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>I was just tonight trying to help a friend install Debian on his mobo > >>with an nforce (nvidia) ethernet chipset. Suffice it to say that I will > >>_never_ purchase an nvidia-based mobo, unless something major comes > >>along to change my mind. > > > > > > What kernel version? > > > > 2.4.22-xfs originally (from Knoppix) > 2.4.22-1-k7 (acquired from sid) > I also tried upgrading to 2.6-test9 (acquired from sid), and that just > froze my box; now I can't even boot back into 2.4.22 without the box > freezing. I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot/fix yet. I'll get to > that today. > > Having said that, I need to qualify that the only installation media I > had available was Knoppix 3.2 (or 3.3 - I forget). I was going to use it > to hit the network long enough to download the few files necessary for a > hard-drive based install of the base system and then bring the rest of > the system up from the network, but the nic didn't work in Knoppix > (although the nforce sound worked just fine). So I resorted to doing a > Knoppix-based install, so there may be some bastardization in the box. > I'm uncomfortable with the box being built on Knoppix (I had to manually > create/move partitions around after the installation in order to segment > them the way I like; I suspect I've got non-pure-Debian packages > installed, etc), and am thinking about redoing it after I can get my > hands on a Woody install CD. > > Eventually I took the Netgear (tulip) nic out of another box temporarily > and put it in this box, tweaked my /etc/apt/sources.list to get rid of
Reinstall from scratch with the tulip NIC in there from the begin- ning. [big snippage] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fear the Penguin!!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
