Debian partitions

[der.hans]

Am 05. Oct, 2001 schwätzte Victor Odhner so:

> I lied about what I had skipped.  I have not installed
> nor configured the base system, because I wanted to do
> that over the network and I can't get that talking yet.

There's an option from the main install menu to configure the network. If
thet fails check that the module for your ethernet card has been loaded.

<alt>-<F2>
<cr>
ifconfig -a

If you don't see eth0 there, then you need to load the appropriate module.

cat /proc/pci

Determine what you ethernet card is from that. If you have to, resort to
opening the box and looking at the card :).

In the main install menu go into the kernel configuration submenu. There's a
net menu in there. The ethernet drivers are in that.

> I have gotten where I'm at using the rescue and root disks
> and four driver disks.  The base would be next.
> I thought I could do this over the network.
> 
> But the installer menu only offers base install from
> cdrom, /dev/fd0, /dev/fd1, or an already mounted
> file system.

You have to configure the network first.

Debian's been able to install everything but the kernel and kernel modules
off the network for a couple of years. Getting the network setup can
sometimes be difficult, though.

ciao,

der.hans
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