Re: PDC20268 support in boot disks
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:24:08PM +1000, Ben Marsh wrote:
> I have been downloading iso images with the hope of doing a net install
> of debian unstable (hopefully) bypassing stable and testing to save on
> downloaded megabytes. However all the isos seem to use the same boot
> kernels and none of them seem to have the driver for the Promise 100Tx
> PCI IDE controller (PDC20268 chipset) in them. My hard drive is to big
> for the motherboards bios so I have it attached to this card. I have no
> floppy drives.
>
> Is there anyway around this problem? Is the driver not included to save
> space?
>
> I have redhat on there at the moment (the boot cd found the controller)
> but I miss apt-get :-(
I just posted a draft of one way around, since you have RH installed,
maybe you could be the guinea pig?
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