-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:40 am, Alexis Huxley wrote: > Hi, I'm attempting to install 'testing' on a very > old PC which will not boot from CDROM, and does not > have a "common" NIC (it's an SMC something). I have referred to > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/cu >rrent/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO and have tried to install, but got errors > about possibly corrupt CDs and Debian mirrors. > > I don't believe anything is corrupt, so I went back to the > above-mentioned URL and re-read it. And now I'm confused > about what I need in order to make the installation. > > What I would *like* to do is to boot from floppies and then install > everything from local CDROMs, but from the above document it seems > that *only* network installation is supported; at least that is > what I interpreted from "These images are intended to boot from CD > and install additional packages over a network" in the "2. CDROM" > section. > > Here is what I believe I did :-), if anybody could comment or > suggest what I should have done instead then it would be appreciated! > > 1) burn "netinst" ISO image to CDROM. > > 2) dd to floppy images bootfloppy-image.img, floppy-image.img and > the net_drivers and cd_driver images. > > 3) boot the 'bootfloppy-image.img' floppy > > 4) when prompted insert exchange it for the 'floppy-image.img' > floppy (which is really a "root" fs image, right?) > > 5) DHCP config fails, manual NIC config also fails (presumably > because my NIC is not "common") > > 6) insert cd_drivers floppy and insert netinst CDROM > > 7) load drivers from cd_drivers > > 8) Running "df" on ALT-F2 VT now shows CDROM is mounted > > 9) installer reports that CDROM or Mirror is corrupt > > 10) somehow make it switch to behaving as if it had booted directly > from the CDROM ??? > > 11) then do an installation from network using either Germany > mirror or local mirror of 'testing'. > > If anyone can offer any advice, it'd be appreciated! Many thanks! > > Also, can anybody confirm: at the moment it is not possible to > install with the new installer using CDROMs as the source? > > Thanks! > > Alexis Huxley > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instead of the netinstall cd use the regular cd, esp if you want to do a cd install. The new installer works fine for cd/dvd installs. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKo4Bk7rtxKWZzGsRAgfbAJ4sRv4ADL7i5QjyVljvA5PkVnlIZACfeldC TnKBGbOigLAGPr9cu08bk/Q= =lXQB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
