My test machine was a Dell Dimension 4100 with an IDE HDD and 3c59x NIC. I used this floppy image:
f710d54705563e73a4e74b4bc86d6e9d net-1440.img >From http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/ What worked: - The floppy booted and the frontend started - The NIC was discovered - I was able to statically configure the network - I was able to select a mirror, and the udebs were downloaded This is as far as I was able to get within the installer. At this point, I had to use a shell to try to make further progress. What almost worked: - After running depmod and modprobe, I was able to see the HDD. I'm not sure at which point (or if) this was supposed to happen automatically. What did not work: - DHCP. The error message seems to indicate that the kernel does not contain the necessary support. - fdisk. I get a symbol relocation error on bindtextdomain, and fdisk would not start. cfdisk would not start because libslang was not present. - This was my first opportunity to try the EVMS udebs that I hastily assembled. evms would not run due to lack of libreadline, and evmsn would not run due to lack of libncurses. I didn't have kernel support anyway, of course. How are dependencies satisfied in this environment? -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
