Please keep list mail on list. Reply redirected to list. on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:33:56PM -0700, Jack Moffitt (jack@icecast.org) wrote: > > Bad floppies are legion in Debian installs. Try another. And another. > > And another. If you can't get it right in six to ten, consider another > > route. I've had a few problems, never needed to toss more than three > > disks myself. > > I've installed linux many times, and so am pretty familiar with bad > floppies. This doesn't seem to be the case here, it seems like debian > can't see my usb floppy drive at all. > > The bios knows to boot from it, but apparently debian itself can't see > it. I see > > floppy drive fd0 is 1.44M > floppy0: no controller Could well be. I don't go through installs _too_ often, haven't had to deal with USB. I'm guessing there's no support, would probably take the tack of finding out how to modify BFs to add USB support. > in the bootup messages a few lines up from where it asks for the root > disk. > > > Worst comes to worst, boot something like Tom's Root/Boot, and do a > > null-cable (SLIP, PLIP, or ethernet) transfer of the base system from > > another system. If that doesn't work, swap the drive to another system. > > Is there a url for this? Nothing I know of off the top of my head. I'm thinking of adding the base utilities required to run installations from my laptop, will be researching this in the future. > jack. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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