RE: making a floppy for essential modules
thanks, but I can't install normally if I can't see the hard drive. The
installer (any one of the flavors of installer, including bf24) doesn't
see the harddrive on my 1750, so I need to install a driver at that point,
I assume, in order to continue the installation.
So, I can make it to step 2 of your steps, but not step 3. I have a
driver, I just need to know how to make a disk that the installer will
recognize to load it.
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003,
Michael Martinell wrote:
> Here is how I set up my Dell
> Set up Debian 3.0r1 on Dell Poweredge 2400
>
> 1. Insert Debian disk and boot from it.
> 2. At boot: prompt type bf24 and press enter.
> 3. Complete rest of install normally. Make sure to install the c
> compiler.
> 4. Download most current kernel. For this example it was 2.4.20
> 5. Copy kernel to /usr/src
> 6. tar xzvf linux-2.4.20.tar.gz
> 7. rm linux
> 8. ln -s linux-2.4.20 linux
> 9. ls -al (verify symbolic link you just created)
> 10. cd /usr/src/linux
> 11. make menuconfig
> 12. Select your options in the menu
> 13. Store configuration to file. This is your backup.
> 14. make dep
> 15. make clean
> 16. make bzImage (ignore warning message)
> 17. make modules
> 18. make modules_install
> 19. make install
> 20. vi /etc/lilo.conf
> 21. Verify settings are correct.
> lilo.conf
> Samba:/etc# more lilo.conf
> # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)',
> # --------------- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/',
> # and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'.
> # +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> # | !! Reminder !! |
> # | |
> # | Don't forget to run `lilo' after you make changes to this |
> # | conffile, `/boot/bootmess.txt', or install a new kernel. The |
> # | computer will most likely fail to boot if a kernel-image |
> # | post-install script or you don't remember to run `lilo'. |
> # | |
> # +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> # Support LBA for large hard disks.
> #
> lba32
> # Overrides the default mapping between harddisk names and the BIOS'
> # harddisk order. Use with caution.
> #disk=/dev/hde
> # bios=0x81
> #disk=/dev/sda
> # bios=0x80
> # Specifies the boot device. This is where Lilo installs its boot
> # block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which
> # case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR.
> #
> boot=/dev/sda
> # Specifies the device that should be mounted as root. (`/')
> #
> root=/dev/sda1
> # Enable map compaction:
> # Tries to merge read requests for adjacent sectors into a single
> # read request. This drastically reduces load time and keeps the
> # map smaller. Using `compact' is especially recommended when
> # booting from a floppy disk. It is disabled here by default
> # because it doesn't always work.
> #
> # compact
> # Installs the specified file as the new boot sector
> # You have the choice between: bmp, compat, menu and text
> # Look in /boot/ and in lilo.conf(5) manpage for details
> #
> install=/boot/boot.b
> # Specifies the location of the map file
> #
> map=/boot/map
> # You can set a password here, and uncomment the `restricted' lines
> # in the image definitions below to make it so that a password must
> # be typed to boot anything but a default configuration. If a
> # command line is given, other than one specified by an `append'
> # statement in `lilo.conf', the password will be required, but a
> # standard default boot will not require one.
> #
> # This will, for instance, prevent anyone with access to the
> # console from booting with something like `Linux init=/bin/sh',
> # and thus becoming `root' without proper authorization.
> #
> # Note that if you really need this type of security, you will
> # Note that if you really need this type of security, you will
> # likely also want to use `install-mbr' to reconfigure the MBR
> # program, as well as set up your BIOS to disallow booting from
> # removable disk or CD-ROM, then put a password on getting into the
> # BIOS configuration as well. Please RTFM `install-mbr(8)'.
> #
> # password=tatercounter2000
> # Specifies the number of deciseconds (0.1 seconds) LILO should
> # wait before booting the first image.
> #
> delay=100
> # You can put a customized boot message up if you like. If you use
> # `prompt', and this computer may need to reboot unattended, you
> # must specify a `timeout', or it will sit there forever waiting
> # for a keypress. `single-key' goes with the `alias' lines in the
> # `image' configurations below. eg: You can press `1' to boot
> # `Linux', `2' to boot `LinuxOLD', if you uncomment the `alias'.
> #
> # message=/boot/bootmess.txt
> prompt
> # single-key
> # single-key
> # delay=100
> # timeout=100
> # Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, <mode>)
> #
> # vga=ask
> # vga=9
> #
> vga=normal
> # Kernel command line options that apply to all installed images go
> # here. See: The `boot-prompt-HOWO' and `kernel-parameters.txt' in
> # the Linux kernel `Documentation' directory.
> #
> # append="ide2=0xd400,0xd002 ide3=0xcc00,0xc802 hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
> # Boot up Linux by default.
> #
> default=Linux
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-x
> label=Linux
> read-only
> # restricted
> # alias=1
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=OldLinux
> read-only
> # restricted
> # alias=2
> # If you have another OS on this machine to boot, you can uncomment the
> # following lines, changing the device name on the `other' line to
> # where your other OS' partition is.
> #
> # other=/dev/hda4
> # label=HURD
> # restricted
> # alias=3
>
> 22. /sbin/lilo
> 23. shutdown -r now
> 24. cd /etc/network
> 25. vi interfaces
> 26. Verify the following. Make changes as required.
> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.25
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.0.0
> broadcast 192.168.0.255
> gateway 192.168.0.71
>
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet static
> address 192.168.0.26
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.0.0
> broadcast 192.168.0.255
> gateway 192.168.0.71
>
> 27. shutdown -r now
> 28.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: New Disorder Records [mailto:ernst@hblindustries.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:09 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: making a floppy for essential modules
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to install debian on a dell poweredge, but I need drivers
> for the hard drives and ethernet card. I have found the drivers, but I
> have no idea how to put them on a floppy disk so that debian will see them
> when I put the floppy in. I don't have other debian machines in the
> office, so I have to make the floppies on a windows machine. Any advice
> about how to put the drivers on a floppy so that debian will see them
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Ernst Schoen-Rene,
> HBL Industries.
>
>
>
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