On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:17 +1000, Ryan Heise wrote: > As I mentioned, I would *much* prefer to use netinstall.
Sorry, I missed that part of the thread. My Bad. :( > BUT, > > Can someone tell me if the netinstall CD includes the driver for my > network card: sk98lin? And if so, which version? > > A netinstall CD is only as useful as its set of network card drivers. I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree with ya there: You can use additional drivers if you've installed them on the hd or if you've got them on floppy. > So far, I tried RC3 and it did not include the sk98lin driver, so I > couldn't install from it. I disagree with ya there: I just downloaded the sarge RC3 netinst, and both the 2.4.27 kernel and the 2.6.8 kernel contain the sk98lin driver in the nic-extra-modules packages. The version of the driver is the version that is stock with that version of kernel. You may need to enable the driver. > Does anyone know how can I check? Straightforward, but not obvious, recipe using any modern Linux: 1) DL the iso. 2) Burn it to disk or loopback mount it. 3) Find the packages that will be installed on the base base system. (*.udeb). 4) Find the packages that are associated with the nic drivers (under pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-i386/nic* for 2.4 kernel or pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6/nic* for 2.6 kernel). 5) Copy those files to a temp directory. 6) Use "ar x debarchivename.udeb" to extract the contents (instructions from man 5 deb, man page is installed with the dpkg-dev package). 7) Use "tar tzf data.tar.gz | less" to list contents of deb, or if you want the kernel files, use "tar xzf data.tar.gz". -Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
