I burned the beta installer 100 MB image to a cd two weeks ago, and have been trying to complete a net install on my secondary (i386) box for the past several days. I should mention that I have installed woody on several boxes without difficulty, and have a working sarge installation on my primary box (also i386) that I upgraded from the woody base install.
I have a working Seagate hard drive and a working ATAPI cd-rom drive (i.e. they both work fine when I boot Knoppix), and I have tried several times --with different IDE configurations--to complete the install from the net image. My machine boots from the cd-rom just fine, and gets me into the installer. I get all the way through selecting a mirror and downloading the base packages when I'm presented with: [!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules No common CD-ROM drive was detected. ... Load CD-ROM drivers from a driver floppy? Of course, not having a floppy which might enable generic ATAPI drives, I select 'No.' I am presented with: Manually select a CD-ROM module and device? Okay. Sure. Why not? Unfortunately on the subsequent list, the only option is "none." I know right away that this isn't going to work, but on the following screen I enter "/dev/hdc", or wherever I've put the CD-ROM on this iteration of the whole process. And naturally, I'm sent right back to the first screen asking me if I want to get drivers from a floppy. No further information is furnished. After I do I all this, I check the fourth virtual console for log messages, and it's filled with hw-detect messages that various IDE and USB related modules were detected, loaded, and subsequently not found. What am I missing? I looked over the recent debian-boot archives, and was unable to find anything germane, but I'm most likely using all the wrong search terms. Cheers, Jason Whittle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
