Re: boot disk dilemma
dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed
like boot/root disks. Good luck :-)
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:03:33PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
> so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the
> debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating
> system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via
> network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using
> the "compact" kernel.
>
> i am dealing with three machines, and they all have different network
> cards. one is a ne2000, one a 3c59x, the next a tulip chip. i would
> like to install the network drivers, but they aren't on any of the
> disks.
>
> my headaches are with the driver-1.bin disk, which resides in the
> compact directory -- how do i use it? it looks like a 512byte offset
> gzipped disk image, but the debian installation program can't load it
> - it waits for like 5 minutes before reporting that it "cannot mount
> the floppy. stop."
>
> what's the native method to configure the network cards during a
> floppy install?
>
> martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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