Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: beta4, 2004-04-30,
<http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso>
uname -a: (no install)
Date: 2004-05-25
Method: Floppy, then attempt to continue from CD-ROM
Machine: Toshiba Portege 7020CT
Processor: Intel Pentium II 366 MHz
Memory: 128MiB
Root Device: IDE HDD
Root Size/partition table: 6GiB
Output of lspci: (no install)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [E]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The boot from floppy succeeded, but even using the cd-drivers.img
floppy, the PCMCIA CD-ROM device was not detected; I don't think PCMCIA
was even activated, since the light on the CD drive did not turn on.
Joey Hess has blogged that this is not supported in the published
images, and that he:
"was able to build him a 3 mb iso image that had the necessary stuff
to see it. All with a couple lines of changes in the udebs lists."
<http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/randtopic2-2004-03-31-00-29>
What Joey failed to blog was *how* this was done, so that the rest of us
with PCMCIA CD-ROMs can benefit without talking to Joey directly :-)
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