boot-floppies with aic79xx support
I sent this message to debian-user and didn't get a response, so I'm
trying here now. I apologize if this list isn't intended as a support
list -- I'm not 100% clear from the traffic.
> I need to do an install on an athlon system with an adaptec 7902
> SCSI card. I (perhaps foolishly) thought it would be a relatively
> simple matter to build a kernel patched to support that card, and
> use it to install debian. But I'm running into more problems than I
> expected.
>
> Can anyone recommend the best way to do this? I have the kernel
> compiled, and it boots the system fine (recognizes the HD, network,
> etc). But how do I get the install (floppy, network, cdrom,
> whatever, I don't care) to run using this kernel?
>
> Originally I tried compiling it as a module for 2.4.18 (to work with
> the bf-2.4 boot floppies), but I had trouble getting the source off
> the adaptec site to work, and the more recent driver doesn't seem to
> work at all with 2.4.18.
>
> Any advice, pointers to docs, or whatever, are much appreciated.
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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
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