Hello, My question concerns the correct course of action when installing Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver provided by nVidia at
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0292 without having to burn 14 CDs. It is a script called NFORCE-Linux-x86_64-1.0-0292-pkg1.run that's supposed to install the driver, given that you have a basic system installed and a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel and the sources of said kernel installed. I have tried to install a basic system and then worry about the driver later, but the installation didn't work. I set up the partitions, everything going smooth, until reboot. After reboot I got flooded with messages like nv_sata : Primary device mounted nv_sata : Primary device mounted nv_sata : Secondary device mounted nv_sata : Secondary device mounted nv_sata : Secondary device unmounted nv_sata : Secondary device unmounted nv_sata : Primary device unmounted nv_sata : Primary device unmounted Or maybe it was "loaded" instead of "mounted"... I forgot. Anyway, something like that. Thousands of these messages flying by so fast you could barely see them. I rebooted, trying to redo the install with another kernel (in this case the 2.6 I gave the linux26 command at boot) and aside from the red screen that was annoying but otherwise didn't seem to mean much, I retried the installation except that now the installer will just stop for long periods of time while doing various things (inexplicably, since it didn't do it the first time) with no hard disk or cdrom access. It just sits there, and then after like 15 minutes it picks back up and continues... For example now I am staring at a screen "Starting partitioning tool" and the little progress indicator is at 55% and it ain't moving and there seems to be no activity. 15 minutes ago it was at 33 or something, and not moving, then it jumped to 55 and now it's sitting... Oh , there it goes, now it's at 72... and sitting... Normally this should be almost instantaneous. Should I just try another build of the netinstall CD or (and this would really be sweet) is there any way to get a hold of a netinstall CD with the forcedeth driver corresponding to the particular kernel ON IT already...? A man can dream can't he? Oh by the way, in the meantime, grub and the master boot sector got all messed up somewhere along the way, and so I can't even boot into my windows partition I had installed for recovery purposes... :-) now I lost my windows partition too. Great. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
