Bug#220048: Your installation report
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:55:11AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> None unfortunately. On both machines and with all three CD drives, the
> BIOS tries to boot from CD-ROM, cannot do it and boots from HDD
> instead.
> [...]
>
> However, I just tried to boot the very same CD on the laptop of a
> friend of mine: it worked! He has got a Pentium III-850 with a
> Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2502-(PS) drive. Unfortunately I cannot tell
> anything about his motherboard.
OKay, I suppose your BIOS is not able to boot with isolinux, the
bootloader used on the netinst CDs. Unfortunatly that means that you
have to use disks for now. I hope there will be a solution for this
soon, I will rise the topic again.
> > As for floppy images, you can find them in the archive in the
> > [...]
>
> Yes, I know. But I did not find bootfloppy-image.img on the Sarge
> netinstall CD. IMHO it would be nice to have it there for the cases
> where CD-ROM booting does not work.
We wanted to keep the netinstall images as small as
possible. Therefore the diskimages have to be obtained elsewhere for
now. Feel free to file a wishlist bug if you think this is not
appropriate.
Regards,
Sebastian
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