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> 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> 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/ > > > >
