The only other suggestion is to make the "rescue" and "root" > bf2.4 Woody boot floppies and boot from them. Once you get to the > start of the install, then you can use the CDs (if they are good) for > the install of the base system or go straight to the netinstall.
I don't have a floppy drive.Unfortunately this isn't a option. > > > I did create the reiser partitions with a 2.4.20 kernel but as you > > said- partitions don't even get mounted where I get stuck. > > > > Just to make sure I didn't screw up something with the ISO I burned > > a gentoo install CD and that boots just fine and finds all the > > hardware. > > > > Real strange! > > Are you using the "Boot from CDROM" option in the BIOS, or are you > booting from some other method to start the boot process? Care to > share your boot proceedures? Maybe there is something there. I have > a couple of machines here that just won't boot from the BIOS, and I > have to use floppies to get it started, then switch to the CDROMs when > asked. What sort of machine is this?? I should have asked that > earlier... I am only familiar with i386 and some Dec Alpha methods to > get Debian running... > I do use the cdrom as the first boot option and it normally works fine. I did d/l burn and try the gentoo CD just to make sure that I don't screw up something with the burning or the boot process and it worked fine.Did install mandrake yesterday and that went w/o any trouble either.It's a i386 with a sis chipset - nothing special. Strange things are that: old potato cd boots fine testing cd boots fine had the same error a while back with Knoppix I'll probably try something like throwing the archives on a prtition and chroot over there.Never tried that with debian though. BTW - just for the archive: There is a module for sis900 on the 'testing cd'. Problem is that when you choose netinstall at boot it doesn't get loaded - now that makes sense.Doesn't it? If you do default install and load all the modules a couple of times it will be there but the installer won't be able to load it with modprobe. You need to open a console and do insmod sis900.Thats as far as I got. Dhcp configuration didn't work for me. Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]