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Topic: Can't find eth0 at all, and some other problems

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sebrock

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Posted: April 21 2006,16:10

Hi,

I'm looking to have a copy of DSL on my Sandisk 1gb micro. Although first I needed to test it using the LiveCD. Everything seemes to work except the NIC. I have a nForce4 board with inteegrated NIC. I read somewhere that they excluded the forcedeth-drivers? Why?

And what can I do to get this to work? I also tried with the nvidia drivers, but this ofcause doesnt work with the livecd. Please help.

If this is fixable then is it possible to get the USB-drive to be read and write, or is it just read? This is pretty important as there are no nforce drivers included.

Lat but not least: my BIOS (MB: MSI K8N Platinum SLi) shows a couple of different USB alternatives, but no USB-HDD. I find it strange because the mobo is just a year old. I do find USB-FDD, what is that?

Please help me with these issues, otherwise there is no use continuing this. Can't understand why they removed nforce drivers, the point is is should be a portable OS right...??

~thc

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Posted: April 21 2006,19:55

you may try dsl version 2.1b (kernel 2.4.31).

"usb-fdd" means "floppy disk drive" emulation mode

sebrock

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Posted: April 21 2006,21:22

Quote (~thc @ April 21 2006,15:55)

you may try dsl version 2.1b (kernel 2.4.31).

"usb-fdd" means "floppy disk drive" emulation mode

Ok, strange, cos I have a USB-FLOPPY as well?

does that mean I cant use USB-HDD with my one year old mobo? What is the difference from HDD to Floppy anyway?

So why did they erase the drivers? anyone knows?

~thc

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Posted: April 22 2006,18:10

"usb-fdd" boot emulation mode has nothing to do with any kind of floppy disk drives.

the very first sector of a harddisk contains a master boot record and the partition table. those decide which partition is the bootable one and "jump" to this partition.

the very first sector of a "floppy" contains the boot sector. the data begins immediatly after that boot sector.

so "usb-hdd" and "usb-fdd" are bios options telling the bios boot code how to handle the boot process on an usb stick.

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