Thanks very much for your response. The first indication that the hard drives are not detected is when I start the shell, and find that the /target directory is not there. Then I looked through the boot messages, which I could do by Shift + PageUp before I upgraded the memory, and also when I use the Etch installer built with the Sarge syslinux, and there is absolutely no reference to the hard disks. (Unlike in the Woody case, where I gave the relevant messages for comparison.) I have used every floppy version of the Etch installer I can find, starting with those at the link http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current//ima ges/floppy/ However I have only used the boot.img and root.img floppies, because the names of the other floppies, namely cd-drivers.img, net-drivers-1.img, and net-drivers-2.img, suggest they are only relevant for cd installs or net installs, which I am not using. My plan is to boot from floppy, get a basic system working on the Linux drive, then download all .deb's I need to the Windows drive, because it is difficult to get dial-up Internet access in Linux. (I managed it for Woody after some months, using the last free version of the hcf Conexant Linux driver from Linuxant, but I am expecting some work to be necessary before I get Internet access working from Etch.) However > Since Sarge, the installer may load the necessary drivers > not during the installer boot time, but later in the installation > process. so I will see if I can find the needed hard disk drivers on the other floppies.
Best regards, Chris Austin On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:36:48AM +0100, Chris Austin wrote: > The memory upgrade went perfectly, and the Etch installer no longer > goes into low memory mode, but it still does not detect the hard > drives. > The Etch installer boots up, and I go through the steps to where it > starts a shell, and says that the hard disks will be in the /target > directory. But there is no /target directory. At which step of the installer do you conclude that your hard drives are not detected? Since Sarge, the installer may load the necessary drivers not during the installer boot time, but later in the installation process. Which floppies are you exactly using? -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :â’¶ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Bug#444807: Etch installer does not detect my hard disks but Woody detected them