Hello all. I recently tried to install Debian 2.1 using NFS. I rebooted using the resc disk, and followed the install program (dbootstrap?). Everything was going fine, until it came to the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" stage, or something like that. In any case, NFS was not in the list of choices for installation media (although I suppose it is possible I just didn't see it.. :P). So I went back to the menu, skipped down the list, and went to the setup Network option. I filled in all my network info, and chose eth0 as the interface. After this, a dialog flashed onto the screen for a second, and disappeared before I could read it. It then returned me to the main menu.
When I went through the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" stage, NFS was listed. However, when I input the name of a server (e.g. ftp.debian.org), it failed *instantly*. Now I expected that I probably wouldn't specify the right directory or the right name format on my first guess, but it looked like my ethernet card wasn't setup properly. I went into ash, and ran ifconfig - it only gave me info on lo. lsmod shows nothing. I am using a PCI NE2000 compliant 10 mbit ethernet card, which has been auto-detected by other distros in the past. I created the 2nd diskette (the driver diskette), but I am unsure of how to use it - given that gunzip and tar are not included, and my attempts to pipe the output of zcat into tarcat, and from there re-directed into a file on the root filesystem, were unsuccessful - I got "out of space errors", or the file I was trying to create was only 0 bytes. Thanks in advance for any help. Shouldn't Deb auto-detect my ethernet card, or at least prompt me for the driver diskette? Regards, Neil Conway Microsoft - Soft and limp?
