Am Samstag, 2. Dezember 2006 10:40 schrieben Sie: > On Friday 01 December 2006 23:05, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I just tried to boot a vaio laptop (z505je) with the etch boot > > floppies. While it worked well with sarge floppies, I get with the RC1 > > boot floppy (the same with the latest daily build): > > > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44 M > > floppy0: no floppy controllers found > > Cannot load floppy module > > Giving up! > > > > The z505 comes with an USB floppy. > > The problem is that the 2.6.18 kernel is so big that we cannot fit the USB > drivers on the boot floppy anymore. So unfortunately we've had to drop > support for both USB floppy drives and USB keyboards.
Ic...do I have any chance that I can get Debian etch on such a VAIO laptop (except of installing sarge and upgrade)? There would be a pcmcia-DVD drive, but the laptop can't boot from it. Is it easy enough to create my own boot/root floppies and throw away stuff which I don't need for example (e.g. CD-ROM support)? Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
