Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!!! Turns out this is a hardware issue. It seems that when I installed the disks with Debian already installed from my old box and it ran superbly I did not really look into the bios setup carefully. The 2.4.19_custom kernel was compiled to run with everything in the kernel that had to do with disk drives and the NIC.When I flatted the drives to correct the damages and clean up the bad blocks I neglected to observe that the power hit had caused the bios to be reset to its original factory settings ie.PNP OS was yes. That caused the bios and the kernel to fight over control of the irq addresses and the IO ports.....all of them. Same with installing modules into a running kernel via insmod. Now for what it's worth I have the network configured and I can ping remote addresses OK. However I seem to still have some bugs in the setup. I am VERY glad that this was/is not a Debian issue with my hardware but still I have been unable to connect to any Debian sites to finish the installation. I "think" its a dns issue but I am not sure. BTW: I use a static IP address not a DHCP server and I connect via my own IP service provider via DSL to the net. The network was finally configured using eth1 NOT eth0 as I have always done in the past. Any ideas for my next step in resloving this (parden the pun)? Thanks! John
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