Re: boot disk dilemma
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:03:33PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote:
| so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the
| debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating
| system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via
| network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using
| the "compact" kernel.
|
| i am dealing with three machines, and they all have different network
| cards. one is a ne2000, one a 3c59x, the next a tulip chip. i would
| like to install the network drivers, but they aren't on any of the
| disks.
|
| my headaches are with the driver-1.bin disk, which resides in the
| compact directory -- how do i use it? it looks like a 512byte offset
| gzipped disk image, but the debian installation program can't load it
| - it waits for like 5 minutes before reporting that it "cannot mount
| the floppy. stop."
|
| what's the native method to configure the network cards during a
| floppy install?
I used the 'idepci' kernel when I did this (a tulip NIC) and had no
problems (with just root and rescue disks). You might want to try
that, then change the kernel after install is done. Or perhaps you
can put the necessary module onto a floppy and simply load it using
the shell (and RAMDISKs)?
-D
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