Hi Darren! On 4/15/19 3:53 AM, Darren Goossens wrote: > Sorry If I am replying in the wrong way, I tried to understand how > these lists work but I always seem to get it wrong.
You're doing it the right way, don't worry. > I have tried to use the Alpha netboot image. It booted very nicely, > but then I got the message that I needed to load some firmware from > removable media -- in this case, qlogic/1040.bin. The installer did > not detect the CDROM drive, which is a standard SCSI one that came > with the AlphaServer. First things first, we need to rule out some confusion: Are you using the actual netboot images or NETINST CD-ROM? I am asking because those are two distinct method of installation and the former, the netboot images actually don't include any modules for IDE, SCSI and SATA hardware. Those modules are supposed to be retrieved over the network. Compare cdrom: > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/blob/master/build/pkg-lists/cdrom/alpha.cfg and netboot: > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/blob/master/build/pkg-lists/netboot/alpha.cfg If you are actually using NETINST CD-ROM image and not netboot, I need to know what storage controllers this machine has. Could you provide the output of "lspci" on Linux and maybe also "show device" from the SRM console? > I put the files on a floppy (AlphaServer 1200 does not have USB) but > there is no floppy kernel module on the installer, so it could not > read the floppy. Yes, floppy modules are currently not included for alpha, both for CD-ROM (NETINST etc) or netboot installation. We could change that if there is demand for this. > Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. It isn't. Thanks for your feedback. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
