Re: Boot from floppies with network driver
Hi,
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When installing from scratch from floppies (for a Network install) I had to
> also download and write to floppies all the driver-* disks to get my
> rtl8139 driver to do a network install.
>
> Is there a way I can avoid the time of loading all those driver disks and
> just get my get the driver for my ethernet adaptor card installed and
> configured?
>
> Currently, I load all four disks, then I'm only selecting the network card
> from the list.
>
Not sure if this is what you want, but there are a few ways around it.
First is to simply recompile the install kernel (I beleive the kernel
config file is somewere in the debian install tree) with support for your
networkcard and nfs.
Secondly you can simply make a blank ext2fs disk with the needed modules
on it. Then you boot of the installer, switch to the second console (and
hit enter to activate it), mount the disk and insmod the drivers.
Furthermore you can mount an nfs partition if you want.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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