> Andr�s A. Rocchia wrote: >> Hello, first sorry for my english I�m trying to improve it :) >> >> I�m trying to install debian sarge with boot floppies and >> sarge-i386-netinst.iso (d-i beta3) mounted as a loop device in the >> ramdisk. >> >> I put the sarge-i386-netinst.iso in a ext2 partition /dev/hda6 >> (/home) then boot with the boot floppies (boot.img and root.img), >> then I use the cd-drivers floppy and mount the >> sarge-i386-netinst.iso in /sarge_cd as a loop device. >> >> Now I want to tell to d-i that go with the instalation from there >> (/sarge_cd) but I don�t know how to do that. Can someone give me >> some help? > > Congratulations, you've managed to find an unsupported combination > of > installation media! I thought we had all the combinations covered..
I win a prize for that? :-) > Is there any reason why you can't use the hd-media installation > method, > which involves booting d-i from the hard disk using grub, lilo, > loadlin, > etc)? That method should be well supported and I'd expect it would > work > on your hardware. No, I have no trouble with others hd-media installation methods, I thougth that with an already mounted cd (as a loop device) in the ramdisk it will be easy to continue from there. When I install woody, I do with the boot floppies and the basedebs.tar in the hd, the installer automatically found it for me. Now I want to install sarge in a similar way, for that my question. > If you have a good reason not to want to do that, I could be > convinced > to add another driver floppy for d-i, this would be a hd-media > driver > floppy which you'd load after booting. It would then let the > installer > see your hard disk, proceed as it would in the standard hd-media > install. The only catch is that we cannot fit drivers for all hard > disks > on a floppy, so it would likely be limited to supporting IDE and > common > SCSI controllers. I haven�t a particular reason for not try with another method but it will be great is that was possible, may be in sarge+1 ? Thankyou very much for answer my question and for the great job with d-i!! AR PS: again sorry for my english :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
