So I opened up the machine to take out the old hard drive and found that two spots on the motherboard with burnt looking.  So I got a new computer and all is back up and working.  I am on an ups box so I don't understand how this happened.  Any way

Thank you for all your helping this old lady.

Maureen

On 3/27/21 6:05 AM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
If you have a spare hard drive, at this point I would swap it in and reinstall. See how that goes.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 2:02 AM Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net <mailto:silver...@verizon.net>> wrote:

    So I did download your suggestion and it worked.  It went all the way
    through re-install with no problems.  On booting for the first time I
    got the message fsckd-cancel-msg: Press ctrl+C to cancel all
    filesystem
    checks in progrees.   Well it freezes and nothing is happening. 
    It just
    stay that way indefinitely.  No file checks and unable to use ctrl+C
    does not work.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thank you

    Maureen

    On 3/26/21 1:22 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
    > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:59:04 -0400
    > Maureen L Thomas <silver...@verizon.net
    <mailto:silver...@verizon.net>> wrote:
    >
    >> So I decided to re-install debian 10.
    >> While doing so I get to the part about the entering the needed rtl
    >> files which I have on DVD and on USB.  I tried both but neither of
    >> them would work.  I cannot get it to even come up to a command line
    >> to do dmesg and see what the real problem may be.
    > I take it that by "rtl files" you mean RealTek firmware blobs for
    > RealTek devices.
    >
    > What I found was that Bullseye (Debian 11) wants the firmware .deb
    > package, not the extracted firmware files. This may or may not
    work on
    > Buster (Debian 10). Also it wants the file in the root directory
    of the
    > USB device.
    >
    > You may be able to install without them if you don't need the
    interface
    > they support to install. You would need some other interface either
    > during installation, or shortly after installation to bring the
    > firmware package in.
    >
    > Probably the easiest option: you might try the unofficial
    with-firmware
    > installation images. Depending on your requirements, you should
    be able
    > to drill down from this page:
    >
    
https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/
    
<https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/>
    >

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