On 4/16/19 14:55, Darren Goossens wrote: > Hi, and thanks for the inte3resting discussion. > > Yes, the QLOGIC chip seems to be the issue. The Debian 5 installer > works flawlessly. I used full disk not netinstall for that.
I believe at that time the Linux kernel (tree) still included a lot of firmware files. These remaining in-tree firmware files were removed with [1]. And the `qlogic/1040.bin.ihex` firmware file was among them. [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b38923a068c10fc36ca8f596d650d095ce390b85 Not sure though, if this was also the case for the Linux kernel in Lenny. > I cannot say what would work best for the most people, and thus be > best place to put your efforts, but I do know that the floppy works on > this machine (AlphaServer 1200), though in Deb 5 I had to modprobe > floppy first. A PCI to USB adapter could also work and avoid the size limitations of floppy disks - if you have one at hand. Cheers, Frank
