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How to configure ethernet afterwards?
Thanks for the link, but I don't have the time to download a new ISO and burn it to a new CD. And besides, I don't have much memory.
Here's my full hardware specs: (with 'full' I mean everything that I found in the system that's important)
Here's my full hardware specs: (with 'full' I mean everything that I found in the system that's important)
Monitor: Siemens MCM 171V 17"
Horizontal Frequency: 30-70
Vertical Refresh Rate: 50-120
Processor: Pentium II MMX 350
RAM: 192Mb SDRAM
HDD: 6.5Gb ST36531A IDE
CD Drive: Samsung 32x CD-ROM
Floppy: 1.44Mb Floppy Drive
Sound: Aztech PCI 168 3328
Graphic: ATI 3D Rage Pro (4Mb)
Network: 3Com 3c590 Ethernet
Mouse: PS/2 Optical Mouse
Keyboard: Siemens (Finnish)
Debian, a mystery..
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If you are using GRUB, you may be able to reset the root password without having to boot from a live cd. (Unless you have password protected GRUB!)
Boot to the GRUB menu, press e (for edit), before the machine has a chance to boot into linux
Move the cursor down one line
Press e again
Press End to move to the end of the kernel line
Add
Press Enter
Press b (for boot)
The computer will now boot to a bash prompt
type
Now type and create a new password.
Now type to restart the machine.
Boot to the GRUB menu, press e (for edit), before the machine has a chance to boot into linux
Move the cursor down one line
Press e again
Press End to move to the end of the kernel line
Add
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init=/bin/bash
Press b (for boot)
The computer will now boot to a bash prompt
type
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mount -n -o remount, rw /
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passwd
Now type
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reboot
Thank you bluesdog for the tip!
I have maybe figured out why I can't get the CD-ROM working.
Let's see, my Ethernet card is PCI and the soundcard too, but my CD-ROM drive not. Perhaps Debian (and other Linuxes) think that my CD-ROM drive is PCI, and when I boot with "linux pci=off" it shuts down the Ethernet card and the soundcard and performs a hardware detection, and it finds out that my primary slave [hd(1,0)] is the CD-ROM and that's why I can get it to work.. (so, my /dev/hdc would be really /dev/hdb)
Could this be connected to my problem? I don't know much of hardware and all I'm saying is just a theory I started to think about last night.
Thanks!
I have maybe figured out why I can't get the CD-ROM working.
Let's see, my Ethernet card is PCI and the soundcard too, but my CD-ROM drive not. Perhaps Debian (and other Linuxes) think that my CD-ROM drive is PCI, and when I boot with "linux pci=off" it shuts down the Ethernet card and the soundcard and performs a hardware detection, and it finds out that my primary slave [hd(1,0)] is the CD-ROM and that's why I can get it to work.. (so, my /dev/hdc would be really /dev/hdb)
Could this be connected to my problem? I don't know much of hardware and all I'm saying is just a theory I started to think about last night.
Thanks!
Debian, a mystery..
Red wrote:Hi,
for the xserver try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg or dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 . For the question :"Use the frame buffer" or something like this, your answer must be No. For the other problem, show me the output from this:
1. dmesg | grep hd
2. dmesg | grep eth
3. ls -al /media
4. cat -n /etc/fstab
5. cat -n /etc/mtab
I don't think that the linux pci=off is the answer for your problem.
Remove pci=off and show me every line with error (EE)
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