Bug#208809: Solution

[alain.roos@degussa.com]

Hello,

The problem could be solved :

- compile 2.4.21 kernel (2.4.19 may also work - not tested)
- with initrd, ramdisk options and all needed drivers

- mount the Debian CD #1
- loop-mount a copy of the rescue image (found on the CD :
install/rescue.bin), filesystem is ext2
- copy the kernel image into the rescue image as "linux.bin" (replace
existing kernel)
- execute the "rdev.sh" in the rescue image
- umount the image
- copy the image to a floppy
- place the floppy and the Debian Disk in the new computer (with the 160 GB
hard disk)

- install Debian Woody ...

- for the boot sector of the harddisk, I used the option -L when using
LILO. Don't know if it is necessary, but
it works fine (as my root partition begins at 80Gb ...)

Thanks to everyone who helped to solve that problem !

Hope this will be useful for others !

Alain ROOS