Andrés A. Rocchia wrote: > Hello, first sorry for my english I´m trying to improve it :) > > I´m trying to install debian sarge with boot floppies and > sarge-i386-netinst.iso (d-i beta3) mounted as a loop device in the > ramdisk. > > I put the sarge-i386-netinst.iso in a ext2 partition /dev/hda6 > (/home) then boot with the boot floppies (boot.img and root.img), > then I use the cd-drivers floppy and mount the > sarge-i386-netinst.iso in /sarge_cd as a loop device. > > Now I want to tell to d-i that go with the instalation from there > (/sarge_cd) but I don´t know how to do that. Can someone give me > some help? Congratulations, you've managed to find an unsupported combination of installation media! I thought we had all the combinations covered.. Is there any reason why you can't use the hd-media installation method, which involves booting d-i from the hard disk using grub, lilo, loadlin, etc)? That method should be well supported and I'd expect it would work on your hardware. If you have a good reason not to want to do that, I could be convinced to add another driver floppy for d-i, this would be a hd-media driver floppy which you'd load after booting. It would then let the installer see your hard disk, proceed as it would in the standard hd-media install. The only catch is that we cannot fit drivers for all hard disks on a floppy, so it would likely be limited to supporting IDE and common SCSI controllers. -- see shy jo
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