How to configure ethernet afterwards?

[junkman]

Hi Red!
I know Linux isn't the same as Windows..

If we look to "The Ladder of Operating Systems" you'd see that Linux is at the top of mount Everest and that Windows is just over a hill.

I'm reinstalling Debian because I forgot the ROOT password (I know it's ridiculous...)

[Red]

Hi again,
the answer for the new problem is here8) . You can use a live CD for that

[junkman]

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)

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)

[bluesdog]

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

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init=/bin/bash

Press Enter
Press b (for boot)

The computer will now boot to a bash prompt

type

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mount -n -o remount, rw /

Now type

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passwd

and create a new password.

Now type

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reboot

to restart the machine.

[junkman]

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!

[ajdlinux]

I wouldn't think so as I've never heard of a PCI CD drive...

[Red]

Show me the output from cat /etc/modules

[Red]

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)

[junkman]

Hi again Red!
I appreciate it that you want to help me and that you need the answers to those questions, I'll post the results as soon as I have a Desktop Environment on my computer.

[DeanLinkous]

How about the output from ifconfig to start with?

If you have a desktop environment then use the GUI tool to set it up and see if it works.