Re: Installing from net with floppy disks - system don´t recognize my hard disk

[Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@hotmail.com>]

On 2004-10-05, Juan Stiller <juanstiller@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi, im trying to install Debian Unstable Version from
> internet with the floppy disks, the installer can see
> my ethernet card, and beggins downloadin some
> packages, but when ends the installed tell me that i
> have no removable media, i know the hdd works fine,
> but i can´t seem to use it with this installer.
>
> Any hints?
>

Juan .... 

  I'm running Debian/Sarge that was net-installed
  starting with floppy disks back at the end of July 
  and had a similar problem .... 
  
  The solution that eventually worked for me 
  was selecting to load the  cd-drivers.img  floppy,
  although it didn't seem to be a logical step at the time,
  since I was not going to need the CD drive 
  just for the install .... 
  
  I think there were some  ide-related  libs 
  loaded from the  cd-drivers.img  floppy
  that allowed the installation to continue ....
  
  Sorry for not being able to explain it better,
  but I didn't understand what was really happening,
  and only found out by  trial-and-error  that it worked
  for me ....


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Cousin Stanley
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona