Bug#444807: Etch installer does not detect my hard disks but Woody detected them
Thanks very much for your response.
The first indication that the hard drives are not detected is when I start
the shell, and find that the /target directory is not there. Then I looked
through the boot messages, which I could do by Shift + PageUp before I
upgraded the memory, and also when I use the Etch installer built with the
Sarge syslinux, and there is absolutely no reference to the hard disks.
(Unlike in the Woody case, where I gave the relevant messages for
comparison.) I have used every floppy version of the Etch installer I can
find, starting with those at the link
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//ima
ges/floppy/
However I have only used the boot.img and root.img floppies, because the
names of the other floppies, namely cd-drivers.img, net-drivers-1.img, and
net-drivers-2.img, suggest they are only relevant for cd installs or net
installs, which I am not using. My plan is to boot from floppy, get a basic
system working on the Linux drive, then download all .deb's I need to the
Windows drive, because it is difficult to get dial-up Internet access in
Linux. (I managed it for Woody after some months, using the last free
version of the hcf Conexant Linux driver from Linuxant, but I am expecting
some work to be necessary before I get Internet access working from Etch.)
However
> Since Sarge, the installer may load the necessary drivers
> not during the installer boot time, but later in the installation
> process.
so I will see if I can find the needed hard disk drivers on the other
floppies.
Best regards,
Chris Austin
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:36:48AM +0100, Chris Austin wrote:
> The memory upgrade went perfectly, and the Etch installer no longer
> goes into low memory mode, but it still does not detect the hard
> drives.
> The Etch installer boots up, and I go through the steps to where it
> starts a shell, and says that the hard disks will be in the /target
> directory. But there is no /target directory.
At which step of the installer do you conclude that your hard drives are
not detected? Since Sarge, the installer may load the necessary drivers
not during the installer boot time, but later in the installation
process.
Which floppies are you exactly using?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jérémy Bobbio" <lunar@debian.org>
To: "Chris Austin" <chrisaustin@ukonline.co.uk>; <444807@bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: Bug#444807: Etch installer does not detect my hard disks but
Woody detected them
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