More Debian installation woes...

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
11 Jun 2001 21:02:15 -0400


Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> OK, now it can't seem to find the 4 disks of drivers I installed...
> thus I can't get the network card to work, which means I can't do
> the rest of my installation... *mutter*  It's now 9pm, getting 
> to the point where starting over would better wait until tomorrow...

This will happen if you boot a kernel that's different from the
one that you used for the install.  You may be able to `insmod
-f' the network kernel driver anyhow, if you can find it (it'll
be in /lib/modules somewhere).  But a better fix is to boot with
the same kernel.

(I've seen this happen other times, too, but I don't remember
exactly when and I think I eventually concluded it was my fault
at the time.)
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