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Subject: slink installation from floppies
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Hello:
I have installed debian on several system, but not the new slink.
I also have not experienced making it work with ide drives larger than
4gb.
I recently installed slink using the 2 floppies and 8 base floppies, then
over our t1.

But,

i have not made it successfully pass the lilo installation process, it
fails, saying I have too large a boot partition which is less than 1024
cyls.

In redhat I have found that:
setting the drive parms on boot works, as long as you make sure you set
the drive appropriately in bios.

e.g.
linux hda=16383,16,63 or some such parms on boot then be sure to set
normal large or lba.

I am getting the error
error can't write to /etc/fst
when I do the configure base system step also.

also, where's the autoprobing for ne2k-cpi module, I don't want to put in
parameters, how do I get the Debian install to some of ths probing for me
and save me time I don't care what iobase/irq/dma the net card is on?

thanks.


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