Just recording this simpleton's experience. I booted the 22 Nov image. AlphaServer1200
It boots fine, but asks for qlogic 1040.bin firmware on removable media. The system has a PCI card that controls an IDE HDD and an IDE CDRW, plus a SCSI CDROM (that I boot off) plus a floppy drive plus a PCI USB card and a few SCSI HDD. the boot messages show the USB -- including identifying the device, eg SanDisk CRUZ. But when I try to load the firmware from removable media (USB, floppy, CD), there is no evidence of any removable media even being accessed/polled. No CD lights come on, no floppy light comes on, no USB stick LEDs come on. It does initialise the network (DEC tulip). I tried putting s CD with firmware into the SCSI CDROM drive and mounting it manually on /cdrom, but the installer still does not see it, though I can look at it in the shell. I am thinking I am going to have to make my own installer, since apparently the DFSG prevent the requisite firmware going on the disk. I'm not a complete newbie, but I am not a developer or sysadmin. I've read around a bit, but a pointer to the most useful guide to adding stuff to the iso and burning my own version would be helpful. I assume I have to mount the iso, unpack the initramfs image and add stuff in there, but it's a bit daunting. I'm not asking anyone to do it for me, but an pointer to a good tutorial or how-to would help. I've found some stuff on the Debian pages and elsewhere, but no luck so far. Cheerio Darren
