Hi, Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine won't boot from them so using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st DVD.
Problem 1 - Does not detect my Belkin 802.11g PCI card (F5D7000). I will leave this until after install to fix, but it means I have no network The installer then insists on trying to find a mirror - of course it can't with no network. Problem 2 - In hardware detect it says it is missing a load of files: ata_piix ide-scsi ide-mod ide-probe-mod ide-generic ide-floppy I then can't partition or install because it "can't find any partitionable drives". It have a feeling that I need to point the installer to the DVD rather than a mirror and it will find these files and install - but I just can't see how to do this. I know it is reading from the DVD after asking for the driver floppy, so it is def. mounted. Am I missing an installation option? The machine is a Dell 5000 with SATA HDD on SATA -0, CD-Rom on IDE (primary) and DVD writer on IDE (secondary). Thanks a lot, David Hart