On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:55:11AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > None unfortunately. On both machines and with all three CD drives, the > BIOS tries to boot from CD-ROM, cannot do it and boots from HDD > instead. > [...]
> > However, I just tried to boot the very same CD on the laptop of a > friend of mine: it worked! He has got a Pentium III-850 with a > Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-C2502-(PS) drive. Unfortunately I cannot tell > anything about his motherboard. OKay, I suppose your BIOS is not able to boot with isolinux, the bootloader used on the netinst CDs. Unfortunatly that means that you have to use disks for now. I hope there will be a solution for this soon, I will rise the topic again. > > As for floppy images, you can find them in the archive in the > > [...] > > Yes, I know. But I did not find bootfloppy-image.img on the Sarge > netinstall CD. IMHO it would be nice to have it there for the cases > where CD-ROM booting does not work. We wanted to keep the netinstall images as small as possible. Therefore the diskimages have to be obtained elsewhere for now. Feel free to file a wishlist bug if you think this is not appropriate. Regards, Sebastian -- PGP-Key: http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/public.key Fingerprint: A46A 753F AEDC 2C01 BE6E F6DB 97E0 3309 9FD6 E3E6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]