Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct
Am 2006-05-25 21:40:39, schrieb Liudmila Yafremava:
>
> Hello!
> using only floppies. I made attempts to install both potato
> and sarge that way, with the same result: after booting with a
> linux boot floppy, the machine demands a root floppy but
> never releases the floppy drive (it continues to spin). When,
> ignoring that, I pull the boot floppy and replace it with the
> root floppy, it responds with a bunch of queer messages and
> "unable to mount root floppy" etc. Somewhere I read that
> initial linux boot floppy does not have the pcmcia drivers
> on it, so the machine may not be able to communicate with
> its floppy in such an install. Correct me if I am wrong.
I had this sort of problems too...
But it is easy to solv, IF you
1) Can boot with a Win95B bootfloppy downloaded from the internet
2) Remove all what is not neccesary for creating a DOS partition
and formating it.
3) Download syslinux.exe and rawread.exe from the internet and put
it on the floppy too.
5) Boot the Floppy and crate a DOS partition of around 28 MByte
and make it DOS bootable.
6) reboot the system and copy syslinux.exe and "example-preseed.txt"
to the Harddrive C:
6) Rename the "example-preseed.txt" to "syslinux.cfg" and
edit it to your needs
7) now on another system download the files
boot.img.gz
initrd.gz
vmlinuz
from the directory /debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/
8) Split the boot.img.gz into 6 parts of 1,3 MByte and transfer
it to drive c:
9) Do the same with initrd.gz (3 parts)
10) vmlinuz can be copied directly
11) now resemble the singel parts with
copy \b boot.img.gz.1 \b boot.img.gz.2 \b boot.img.gz.3
\b boot.img.gz.4 \b boot.img.gz.5 \b boot.img.gz.6
\b boot.img.gz.7 \b boot.img.gz.8 boot.img.gz
and
copy \b initrd.gz.1 \b initrd.gz.2 \b initrd.gz.3 initrd.gz
12) now call
syslinux c:
which will write the bootsector...
13) If you NOW reboot the system, it will start the installation
directly from the 28 MByte DOS-Partition
ATTENTION: Instead of syslinux you can use loadlin.exe
and the install.bat provided by Debian.
In this case, you have not the need to make C: bootable for syslinux...
...and if you configure LILO/GRUB right after successfull installation,
you can always boot into the DOS partition for new installations or such.
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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