More Debian installation woes...

Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:09:12 -0400


Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:02:15PM -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.)

Mutter mutter, one would think files from the same distribution of
Debian would be the same version... I'm trying "stable" disks now,
hope that helps... I get the feeling I'm going to be here really
late tonight...

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