Hi Frank I don't have a PCI USB card, though perhaps I should invest in one. Nearly everything now is PCI-E, so something secondhand, I guess.
Many thanks On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 9:24 AM Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
