Driver in boot floppy for install?
I'm installing Debian from CD-ROM (2.2r2 since that's what I have
lying around).
The hard disk is a RAID array (Adaptec 2100s). I've the driver for it
from adaptec for kernel 2.2.19 (and the CD-ROM has 2.2.18pre21 kernel
but the driver seems okay?).
During a clean install I need to load the driver from floppy right
after the keyboard config (the driver is dpt_i2o.o). I can then
partition and initialise the hard disk.
But what now?????? I end up being asked to create a boot floppy (it
skips asking me to install on the MBR with lilo for some reason). I
create the boot floppy and reboot but end up with a kernel panic (with
mention of block-major-8 and unable to mount root fs)
No doubt this is because it can not find any hard disks because the
driver (dpt_i2o) is not available - it's still on it's original floppy
:-)
What is the process from here to get this driver somehow on the boot
floppy so I can reboot the machine?
Thanks,
Graham
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