On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:51 +0530, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 02:39 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > <snip> > > Any ideas on what may be wrong ? > > > > -thanks- > > Sayamindu > > > > PS: For some reason, I think that the installer is trying to detect SATA > > drives - instead of the normal PATA ones that I have. Some SATA related > > modules are being loaded before the disk detection process. > > Sayam, I installed Sarge from the DVD today. Installation went without a > hitch. I suggest you come down to my/IDG's place, pick up a DVD rom > drive plug it in and install :) >
Hmm... managed to solve the issue. The initrd in the netboot tarball does not have ide-* drivers. Luckily I had the *.deb of the kernel - from which I extracted the ide-* modules, and put them in a tarball in my laptop webserver's document root. Before the installer started the hardware detection process - I wget-ted the entire thing to the install box, and put the modules in the right places. Install went smoothly after that. Now, I have managed to setup a small home network with the desktop acting as a NAT box. However, I cannot figure out how to permanently save the iptables rules in Debian - in Gentoo I simply do /etc/init.d/iptables save. How do I achieve this in Debian ?? -thanks- Sayamindu -- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
