Install from hard disk problems
In the past week I did two laptop installations of Debian 2.2 idepci
1) Using the whole set of 15 floppies for all was smooth. THANKS
2) The 2nd laptop already had a WinSwish partition, so the "from the
Hard Disk option was planned for after downloaded consitituent files.
PROBLEMS:
a: )No where in the readmes is it stated that the structure of the
harddisk source area must mirror that of the Debian repository, i.e.
current
----dosutils
----images-1.44-idepci
----idepci
This had to be figured out by sheer stubborness, trial and error.
This requirement should be EXPLICITELY stated in the readmes.
Even with this figured out:
b:) the install script couldn't recognize the driver-1.bin on the
harddisk, until the image was written to a floppy and thereby accessed.
c:) the functionality of install.bat for idepci is totally obscure.
MarvS
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