I am trying to set up Debian Woody on a Sony Vaio SR17 subnotebook. This machine has no floppy, and no cd, which means installation from FAT partition on local hard drive, or over the network, or physically pulling the hard drive out and putting it in a desktop (which I'd rather avoid).
This machine was running potato, but ended up with some very odd errors that effectively would not let any XFree86 programs run. After various posts to debian-user, debian-kde, debian-x about the "unexpected inconsistency detected by ld.so" error I was receiving, with no responses, I figured that the only thing to do was clean it off and start with a new Woody install. I had previously installed Potato on this machine, by putting the boot floppy images on the FAT partition, running the install.bat file, and then completing the install by network. I just tried to do this with Woody, but when the installation is started from the hard drive it appers there is no option to continue with a net install - it looks as though I need to have the entire installation archive on the local disk. Is this correct, or have I missed something?? If starting the install from a hard disk, is it no longer possible to install the base system over the network?? Thanks, Bruce
