Bug#134970: boot-floppies: unable to install via pcmcia cdrom drive
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; reported 2002-02-20
Severity: important
I've been attempting to install woody from CDROM onto a system that has a pcmcia
based CDROM drive. I have been using the *unofficial* CDROMs generated via jigdo
from the Hungary master site.
The system is not recognizing my PCMCIA hub and CDROM. This appears
to be due to the fact that /lib/modules/<kernel> is basicly empty on
these CDROMs. I'm somewhat astonished to say that, since I would expect
standard (non-laptop) network installs to fail due to people not being
able to load their ethernet card drivers.
I have tried both disk 1 (2.2.20 kernel) and disk 3 (2.4.17bf kernel).
Neither disk has the required drivers.
Am I doing something wrong here or are the kernels used in the CDs
corrupted, or what? I've already asked on debian-boot to no luck,
and Brian Hayes suggested I file a bug report against boot-floppies.
NOTE: I have since brought this system up by creating a fat partition
in the swap area and putting copies of drivers.tgz and repair.bin
there and doing this by hand, but I know that that's not what you
intended.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux quemadura.shockwave.org 2.4.17 #1 Fri Jan 4 19:09:00 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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