Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:03:06 -0600 (EST) From: Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net> To: "Jerry E. McGoveran" <jerry@certus.com> Cc: Andy Kennedy <st0658@student-mail.jsu.edu>, debian-user@lists.debian.org, aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Catch-22 - Help! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981029090233.764B-100000@brahe.midco.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981028171602.009b5c60@value.net>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : 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. That would be wiser. Download the gcc deb via Win95 and use dpkg to install it (dpkg -i) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:finn@midco.net http://www.midco.net finger finn@home.midco.net for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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