Problem with trying to instal Debian
Hello.
I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an
HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed.
The computer had Windows XP, Ubuntu 8.04, and Debian 4 or 5 (I think it
may have been 5, but am not sure) installed on it.
So I thought that I would just instal Debian 6 on it.
I have a Debian 6.03 i386 CD1 ISO CD that I had made, and I tried to
instal from that.
After repeated attempts, as it seemed to hang at "Detecting Network
Device" or some similarly worded message, I just left it running (or not
running, as it had appeared).
After about half an hour, or an hour or so, I found a message that it
required firmware for the network card; IPW something or other, and
required me to produce that, before it would proceed further.
So, overnight, I downloaded the Debian 6.04 i386 ISO DVD 1, as I figured
that that should have whatever is needed.
I "burnt it to disk", using the drag and drop thing within File Manager
on an existing installation of Debian 6, on a 64 bit machine (installed
from the Debian 6.03 AMD64 CD1 ISO CD), and tried to install from that.
In booting the laptop with that disk, I got the error "Non system disk
or disk error".
It took several hours to download that image, and it does not work.
With this policy change by the Debian people, to exclude "firmware", so
as to make installing Debian difficult, I have had problems, over time,
in trying to instal Debian 6 on different computers, being unable to
instal Debian 6, until Debian 6.03 was released.
Is it possible to have this policy that excludes firmware from official
installable disks, overturned, so that Debian 6 can be more easily
installed?
Or, are we required to instal earlier, obsolete versions of Debian, to
obtain a working version of Debian, that is installable?
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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