Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:16:02 -0800 From: "Jerry E. McGoveran" <jerry@certus.com> To: Andy Kennedy <st0658@student-mail.jsu.edu> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Catch-22 - Help! Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981028171602.009b5c60@value.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981028182859.4956A-100000@student-mail.jsu.e du> References: <3.0.5.32.19981028125323.00980c00@value.net>
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At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is >> apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of >> the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. >> menu too fast to read anything. I finished the installation, and >> now I need to update the kernel and the drivers. I can't compile a >> kernel (downloaded 2.0.35 src) because I don't have gcc. I can't install >> the gcc package because I don't have network access in Linux - only under >> Win95.A > >Gcc is available at sunsite.unc.edu and most of the mirrors. Download it >w/ win95 and then use tar to "unpack" it. Oh. I had assumed that it had to be installed via the package route. Silly me. Thanks for the help! -Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certus Consulting Group | Specializing in Integrated Circuit Antioch, CA 94509 | Design and Verification, Logic (925)757-0685 | Synthesis, Fault Grading, and <http://www.certus.com>; | Test Development To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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