Quite some time ago, I was trying to get Debian working properly on my primary workstation, an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe with 512MB RAM, Athlon 2500 Barton, and GeForce 5600FX 256MB AGP Video Card. Back then, I was having all sorts of problems getting anything on the MB to work and getting the nForce drivers compiled and installed.
This was traced to an apparent need to compile a 2.4.22 kernel (I was running 2.4.18). After I attempted to compile the new kernel, my system was rendered unbootable on the Linux side, most likely due to an error on my part actually installing the kernel and configuring LILO properly. Thankfully, I was able to still boot into Windows-98SE. Anyway, I decided to give it another shot, and was even going to do a fresh clean Debian install. First, however, I went ahead and booted up with a Knoppix CD so I could write down my partition info. Well, Knoppix managed to successfully boot to the KDE desktop, and even more surprising; I had full Internet as well as LAN access, and the onboard sound was working perfectly. Yet, the previous attempt at running Knoppix failed and I was relegated to working from a text-based console with no NIC or sound capabilities. So now, why is it working all of a sudden? And even more importantly, is there anything I can lift off of the Knoppix CD and install on my hard drive in order to make the system operate properly without me having to reinstall Debian afterall? If so, this could get me up and running under Linux much sooner than expected, since I would apparently no longer have a need to go through that messy process of compiling a new kernel. Is it possible that I did indeed compile the 2.4.22 kernel properly, and it is just a matter of configuring LILO properly now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]