Re: Installing 3.0 (woody eventually) on an ECS A900
On Friday 16 August 2002 13:50, David Goodenough wrote:
> I received an ECS A900 this morning (in the UK its sold by Novatech as the
> N-Book) and tried to install Debian on it.
>
> First try was to install from the 2.2r3 CD I had (it has a CD drive, but
> no floppy). This hung just after it had detected the lack of floppy.
>
> So I downloaded a BF2.4 ISO, and tried that. This got further, but the
> box has SIS 630 video, and the SIS framebuffer driver obviously did not
> like the support chips. So I overrode the boot line with:-
>
> linux vga=791 video=vesa
>
> and got further. I got a framebuffer with tux up the top, and it powered
> its was through and put out the message:-
>
> Compac CISS driver (version 2.4.5)
>
> and hung.
>
> From what I can see the next thing it should be doing is looking for
> ethernet hardware. This box is supposed to have a RealTek chip in it
> but as yet I do not know what kind (I will find out shortly).
>
> I also had a copy of SuSE 7.1 lying around, so I tried that, and as
> that does not seem to try to access the LAN hardware, it worked a treat.
>
> So at least I will be able to find out what kind of LAN chip I have
> and whether the driver loads correctly (and which driver) for my next
> Debian attempt. I would much rather run Debian than SuSE on this box.
>
> Any thought welcome
>
> David
Well it turned out that what I needed was the idepci boot ISO. From
there on it was a breaze, given that I already had SIS630 chip boxes
around and therefore knew to use the vesa driver until I could move
to 4.2 (plus latest fixes) of XFree.
Ta
David
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