Eilko <nijboer@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Dave Uhring wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:27:32 -0400, Michael Black wrote:
>>
>>> Well no, your problem is that you decided you knew what you needed, and
>>> then did a selective install.
>>
>> Not really. It is the Debian developers who have decided what the
>> install is to be and there is little choice for the end user. The end
>> user gets to choose which *servers* are to be installed but not the
>> headers required to build the nVidia driver nor a compiler.
>
> I think you're right.
>
> In the meantime I executed the build-essential, linux-headers and
> linux-kbuild commands; and that works. That is, there are many linux
> headers; I choose the amd-x64 variant.
>
> But I still fail to install the drivers.. When I installed Debian,
> I entered my ip-address, the subnet and the gateway, and a number of dns
> servers, and it al works when I login under my user account. But
> installing nVidia is blocked because X is running.
> When I login as a single-user (via the Grub menu), X is not started, but
> the network doesn't work either! So I can start installing the drivers
> but during that process it wants to download additional headers from
> nvidia.com and that fails...
>
> My Debian learning curve isn't as steep as it should be, I need another
> hint... help?

boot into single user as you were doing..
And start the network.
/etc/init.d/network start should do the trick.
THEN run the nvidia-installer

Just because you booted into a runlevel without a facility, doesn't mean you
can't start that facility yourself.

One thing that always bugged me about debian was their stupid idiotic init.d
scheme. In other more sensible distros, the runlevels have meaning, 1 is
single user, 2 is multiuser, 3 is multiuser with network, 5 is multiuser
with network and display manager.

But debian fecked that idea up something rotten and put the display manager
in every single runlevel apart from the single user mode.

You can correct this fatal and moronic mistake by going into /etc/rc3.d and
deleting the links to kdm, gdm and xdm...

then you could start up in runlevel 3 to do maintenance tasks that require
the use of basic system functions like networking without all that faffing
about in single user mode.
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