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Re: lenovo s205 installation problems



On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 14:12:10 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote:

> I tried without success to boot the Debian installer from an 8-Gbyte
> USB flash memory stick.  I tried two different procedures for creation
> of a bootable ROM, but neither worked; the approaches are detailed in:
> 
>     http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en

The method described in section 4.3.1 is generally successful. What was
the exact command you used to put the image on the USB stick?

> (3) During installation, the only USB port which appears to be active
> is the port feeding the DVD drive.  Aside from the minor inconvenience
> of being unable to use a full-size external USB keyboard for the
> installation, I am unable to provide "missing firmware" (namely,
> "rt1_nic/rt18105e-1fw") on removable media during the installation.

Enabling 'Legacy USB' in the bios (if it is there) may be necessary.


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