Hello everyone. I've been lurking here long enough, so I figure an introduction is in order.
My name is Eric Anderton, and as John Demme is already aware, I am a recent Linux convert. I'm also a local resident (Silver Spring), so I'll be looking forward to meeting a few folks in person when I get the chance. I'm a web programmer and contractor by trade, but I also do some rather serious hacking with the D language in my free time. I'm hoping to learn and use linux to help write more cross-platform capable code, rather than just be anchored to windows all the time. - Eric PS, For anyone who is looking for a real MacGuyver challenge to install Debian, please read on. I'm closing the gap on my desktop system (win2k - loaded up with worms and viruses at that), and so far its been a very stubborn install. The system is a Shuttle XPC (SN85G4 v3) barebones, running an 64-bit AMD chip, a SATA HD drive and a old 2X ATAPI CD drive. I have a floppy drive attached to it temporarily for install purposes. To make matters worse, I have no CDRW at my disposal at this time and the system will *not* boot from a USB Flash Key (although it throws a fit when my iPod is attached, so it obviously understands USB hard drives). The problem is that its sporting the nVidia nForce3 chipset, which has a rather odd history of support via linux. The chipset is pretty much all the integrated peripheral support in the system, most notably sound and network. The major crux here is getting a driver for nForce3 during install, which is under the 2.6 kernel branch (I think). Apparently, the ADM64 CD image installs for folks just fine. What I can't figure out is why there's no floppy netboot installer for AMD64, and why the floppy netboot installer for i386 only supports up to nForce2 (not nForce3, via the forcedeth driver). --> If only I could craft a secondary driver floppy that contains the i386 build of the latest forcedeth driver, then the install would be a piece of cake. Anyway, I really just want to be sure this is a dead end before I go about buying a new CDRW or ording the AMD64 CD's online. Any ideas from the crowd? Thanks for any input on all this. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
