Re: problem setting up a new debian-box
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 17:22, IOhannes zmoelnig wrote:
> hi !
>
> i am very new to this list, so i hope this is the correct place to ask:
> i have a brand new PC(i686) in front of me, which i would like to set up
> as as file-server on a debian-system.
> that's the good side.
> here's the bad side: the pc is equipped with
> pentium4
> asus p4t-e motherboard (i850)
> floppy
> promise-raid controller
>
> no primary harddisk, no cdrom
>
> i am used to install debian via a minimal floppy-installation and do the
> rest over the net.
> however: the floppy-controller does not seem to be recognized.
> so: i insert the rescue-disk and restart
> everything seems to work fine.
> when "loading the modules" it comes to the floppy and says:
> floppy drive:fd0 is 1.4MB
> floppy0:no floppy controller found
> when i have to insert the root-disk, it is not able to mount use the
> /dev/fd0 any longer.
>
> anyone experienced a similar problem ?
> how have you mastered it ?
> are there boot-floppies that support this controller ?
> (i have read on a SuSe-list, that with new kernels this should be no
> problem (>2.4.x), but i have tried boot-floppies with
> "ext3-2.4.17"-flavour with no success)
>
> my only debian-cd i have is rather old (>1year: woody, but 2.2.19) and
> it is not able to detect the raid correctly, so it detects no harddrives
> to install my system to. anyhow, there will be some reading before i
> manage to set up the basic system on the raid, but i haven't yet found a
> place to put an additional system-disk into the case. (i think there are
> good HOWTO's, are there ?)
You mention earlier that have no harddrives or do you have hard drives
that are not detected. If the latter, you might want to try the -idepci
images. I dont have much experience with the promise controllers so this
might not work at all. Just a suggestion
Shri
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