Sorry if this is a double post, forgot to add the subject line last time. ----------------- We're considering dropping our RH 7.2 colo setup for a dedicated server at ServerBeach. The Debian servers there come partitioned as 40 /boot (hda1), 1GB swap (hda2), and the rest of the drive as / (hda3). I want to change the partitioning scheme, but I have to do it all remotely. What I've been practicing on a spare box is deleting the swap and using debootstarp to install a base system on hda2, edit /etc on hda2 as necessary, editing menu.lst and rebooting with hda2 at / . The idea then is that I can delete hda3 and repartition it to my hearts content, debootstrap a system onto hda1 and my new partitions and go from there. When I use the debian installer on a bare system, there's a step where I tell it to add a module for the NIC card (eepro100). I don't get that step when I use "apt-get install kernel-image-xxx" during the debootstrap installation onto hda2. The problem I'm encountering is that when I reboot eth0 doesn't come up, so my remote work is finished.... I've tried skipping installing the kernel and seting up fstab to use /boot from hda1 (the existing installation) but it seems I'm missing some /lib/modules stuff on hda2 when I try that. I'm new to debian but already love apt-get. Is there any easy step I'm missing here or do I need to compile a kernel for my bootstrap installation while I'm chrooted in it? The specific error message I get is "eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device" and the procedure I'm using comes from http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html section 3.7 Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list