On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > 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): > > >
> > 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. > If your box supports booting from a USB floppy, would it boot from a USB stick? If so forget about floppies and make a USB (hd-media) install and put the netinst.iso on the stick. It works great. Instructions are in the installation manual. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
