On Monday 28 June 2004 17:28, you wrote: > Hello, > > I'm stuck trying to network-install Debian Woody (in order to install > 'Unstable') on an IBM Thinkpad 560X. > > I'm using the 'boot', 'root' and 'net-drivers' floppies found here on > saturday 2004/6/26: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/imag >es/floppy/ > > partman says something like "here are the partitions on your hard drive" > but there is nothing! but the menu asking me what I want to do next... > > It seems the hard drive (4GB, C,H,S: 993,128,63) is not detected. I also > tried "linux hd=993,128,63" when booting with the Sarge installation > disks, but the result is the same. > > Hard disk detection would work fine on this machine with the Woody > installer, but my PCMCIA ethernet card is not recognized, so I intended to > use the future Sarge installer (that sees my network card fine)... More details:
The card is a Mentor PCMLAN-100DL. The Sarge installer sees it using module 8139too. Maybe I could have this module loaded during the Woody installation using floppies? (and then upgrade the distribution), but I don't know how to do that. Cheers, Sylvain. > > I hope someone here could propose me something clever to try out. > Thanks in advance! > > Sylvain. -- wxWidgets config: WX 2.4.2 / GTK 2 / gcc 3.3.3 La internacia lingvo: http://uea.org/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
