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Re: d-i with Dell Dimension XPS M200s



* Jimen Ching <jching@flex.com> [2004-07-24 13:27]:
> I recently received an old Dell M200s tower desktop.  I tried to install
> Debian on it with beta4.  But the kernel failed to detect the IDE
> controller, so I don't have any drives at the drive partition stage.
> 
> According to the Dell website, the M200s uses the SMSC FDC37C93xFR IO
> controller.  I did a search of the 2.4.23 kernel source tree and only
> found references to this chip in IrDA and the Alpha directory.  I see no
> references of this chip in the IDE driver directory.  But a search on
> google returns mailing list entries that imply people have installed

According to http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/04/msg00339.html
John H. Robinson has such a machine, so let's CC him.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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