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Bug#230396: installation-reports bug report



Chris Leigh writes:
 > Package: installation-reports
 > 
<snip>
 > I have a D-Link DE-220 ISA Card. The address/irq is 0x300, 11.
 > The detection failed (its not a PNP card).
 > Choosing the module 'ne' also failed, because it did not prompt me to 
 > enter the io port and irq.

ISA detection is shaky. Your chance is to add DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low to the
boot prompt. Then you have a chance to enter irq io and the like. However,
you are then asked a lot more questions. (This is also known as booting
"expert" at least on the CDs, I'm not sure, whether this works on the boot
floppies as well.

 > I was able to get the card to work by using insmod with the correct 
 > io/irq from the command line.
well then.



 > Hope this report helps.  Any chance on getting the new installer to fit 
 > inside 24MB of RAM?

The installer uses approx. 32 MB, installs with that much RAM have been
reported to work. So the first answer is no. HOWEVER, there is a chance if
you are able to create and activate a swap partition before the modules are
downloaded, thus making more room available for the ram disk.

Search the archive at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot, there was some
discussion about this this or last month.


Thanks for your report, and hope this helps.

Cheers,
Erich



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