[Watford] Installiang Debian

[Walter]

Hi Matt,

Debian is in.  But as usual it cannot see the network adapter.  Unless you
have time to tell me how to install the adapter manually, I will just re-run
the debian setup routine for now.  I saw that the Realtek 8139 module was
there as a driver and I found an old one of these PCI cards so I'll try that
first.

Keep you posted.

Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Matt Marsh
Sent: 02 April 2006 22:14
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Linux New Starter Advice (Was: Lug Update)

Walter wrote:
> I have finally got round to digesting your details email re debian 
> kernel install.  Since I currently run Redhat 9 I assume I will have 
> to install debian first before the apt-get command will run. Redhat 
> use use their own program manager, rpm or something.

Yes, that's right, the instructions I gave were specific to Debian, RedHat
instructions for building the kernel would be somewhat different but I'm no
RedHat expert I'm afraid. Just to explain apt-get and so on a little:

rpm is the file format for packages created for installation on RedHat and
plenty of other distributions.

deb is the file format for packages created for installation on Debian, and
Debian derived distributions such as Ubuntu and others.

apt-get is part of the apt system available on Debian, Ubuntu and others
which is a way of fetching and installing packages. When you do:
"apt-get install <package>", the <package> will be downloaded from the apt
repositories and installed on your system along with any packages that it
depends on, all quite useful.

> I have the distros for Debian, debian-30r2-i386, which I can use for this.
> I'll use a spare HDD to get a clean install.  I'll then keep you 
> posted of progress and I may well need your help again.  Also the 
> driver installs for some of the pci cards I want to use can be tackled 
> after I get this kernel up and running.

Good luck and let us know if you need more help.

Matt

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