At 11:29 AM 8/9/2002 -0500, Peter Seebach wrote: >Synopsis: Can't install Debian. > >Details: I'm using the ~186MB "woody-isolinux.iso" boot image. The target >system is a Tyan Thunder K7, with onboard 3Com ethernet, and an Adaptec >2100s RAID controller.
Peter, Try this one http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/cvs/boot-bf2.4-with-basedebs.iso This works for me on every think I have tried it in. Loren >If I boot from the default, it seems to think it has a network, but no disk >drivers. If I try to load drivers from a floppy, it complains that it can't >mount the floppy. I'm just using disks made from the driver-N.bin images, >which look as though they're just large gzipped files. The exact message >is "Critical Error", "Unable to mount the floppy disk, can't continue." > >If I try to use bf24, which I'm told should have the "DPT" drivers I need, >I don't get either network *or* disk drivers. > >If what I'm supposed to do is not "put driver-1 on a disk and put it in >the drive", I'm stumped. (It does seem like maybe the driver-n images should >be readable from the CD?) > >FWIW, this may have to do with system quirks; this Debian CD is the only CD >I've been able to boot on this system, every other disk or floppy I've tried >just stops at a blinking cursor around the time it should be either booting >or saying it can't find a system disk. > >System is Athlon MP (just one for now) 1800+, 512MB memory, IDE CD, regular >floppy, and disks attached via RAID controller. Nothing else very exciting. >I can't find a clear answer to the question "what is this network card", but >it appears to be a 3Com, and FreeBSD drives it with the xl0 driver. > >-s > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
