On Wed 17 Jul 2013 at 15:18:27 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I want to install a recent Debian distribution on a clean partition of > a stand-alone SCSI box which runs multiple legacy OSes, including > Woody. I did not upgrade Woody because driver support for my Initio > SCSI host adapter was problematic with supplied 2.6 kernels for > several years, but apparently resolved according to a Debian bug > report.
#318121? On Wheezy: brian@desktop:~$ locate initio.ko /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko So it looks like you are good to go. > Unfortunately I cannot boot from my SCSI CD-ROM after configuring the > host adapter BIOS and drive to do so, so I was unable to boot a > live CD and test legacy hardware support. No BIOS support for USB > booting, either. I have found a full commercially-prepared set of > Debian 5 CDs which should include the Initio driver I need, so I am > trying to figure out how to install from these CDs through a hard > drive-based install located in the same partition where I want Debian > 5 installed. Cue Debian install guide and FAQ. > > I have initialized a 3.3 MB ext3 root partition for Debian 5 and > downloaded the hd-media versions of vmlinuz, initrd.gz, boot.img.gz and > a cd ISO from the official Debian archives. The 3.3 MB root partition isn't required. I suppose you could use it, but it appears to me to complicate things. boot.img.gz isn't needed either. > 1) If I install this kernel and iso image in my Debian 5 root > partition with lilo or grub, I should automatically launch the Debian 5 > installer after booting this partition, correct? I'd put vmlinuz and initrd.gz in /boot/ and the cd ISO in /, a place where d-i is likely to find it when it looks for it. d-i can also locate the ISO if it is on a USB stick. You didn't say what your existing bootloader is. GRUB Legacy? If so. you write a stanza in its configuration file giving the locations of vmlinuz and initrd.gz so you can boot the kernel. > 2) How do I go about creating the rudimentary file system I need be > able to install lilo or grub on the clean root partition - without > what subdirectories and executables do I need and where do I find > them without a working Debian 5 system to clone? > > > 3a) If I can launch the Debian Installer this way, will it allow me to > manually switch package sources from Debian servers to my CD-ROM (which > presumably I can mount once the installer has loaded the Initio SCSI > driver module.)? This could be done after you have installed from the cd ISO and have booted into the new system. > 3b) If not, will the installer pull packages from my CDs if I replace > the hd-media version of the cd ISO image with the CD version of the > cd #1 ISO image? You can certainly use cd #1 but, never having done it, I'm not certain about how d-i deals with the other CDs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
