Hello again ! Thanks a lot Civileme and all. Woo-Hoo...it works great ! Just do: '# modprobe advansys' Now, it's time for more advantures on the way to set it up as a multi services (Firewall, Apache, Squid, DNS, Samba, NFS,...) server for a LAN of 30 PCs. So, some more questions would be later... LinuxKH --- "A real newbie learning to swim in Linux sea" On Mon, 28 May 2001, Civileme wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2001 03:30, you wrote: > > It is not seeing the Advansys SCSI adapter, possibly because the initrd is > not loading properly. > > This may be an error in media or in the driver itself. > > DO this > > At the splash screen hit F1 and type "rescue" without the quotes. > > then type > > # modprobe advansys > > If that does not work, then we have a kernel driver problem. > > To alleviate this, we have alternate install images > > Look at the CD with a running system, in the folder /images/alternatives and > find the file > > cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 > > copy it to a floppy with > > dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 of=/dev/fd0 > > Or under dos, get to the directory and use the program rawrite to move that > image to a floppy. A dos window on 95 or 98 will work just as well. rawrite > versions do not appear to work under WindowsME. > > And then use that floppy to begin installation--it should find and load the > advansys.o module. > > Once the installation is done, the initrd.img should have the advansys drive > in it, so that booting should not be a problem. > > Civileme
