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Re: driver disks



On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Matt Jones wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to install potato on my AXPpci133.
> When it asks for the driver disk, it gives me an error.
> I know that this is a problem that has occured before, as I have seen it in 
> the archives.
> Unfortunately, I do not have access to the web from my house, so I cannot 
> directly download from the ftp.
> Is there a way to skip installing the driver instalation, or are there other 
> methods to instalation?
> Does the CD version install properly?

There is a way around it using floppies, but it's ugly.  Basically, you
can untar the drivers.tgz and hand-copy the modules that you want, etc.
The best way, though, is to install from CD since it works perfectly.

C



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