Didn't find anything about this in the archives.
I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have
SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always
booted installation programs from floppies in the past.
I downloaded the boot floppy set and wrote them out according to the
instructions in "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel x86". I've read
the manual pretty thoroughly. I checked each floppy against the downloaded
image with cmp. None had errors.
After the rescue and root floppies read in, I got a message saying
that no hard disks were recognized. (The same thing occurs with my
Ethernet boards; they need to have modules loaded before they can be
recognized.)
Then I select "Load modules from floppies". That fails with a
message saying that it was unable to mount the driver floppy. If I try to
mount any of them on a machine that has Linux running, it asks me to specify
the filesystem type. All reasonable guesses fail -- it ain't msdos, ext2,
or ext3.
This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has
anybody successfully done an install from floppies on a system that needs
modules to be loaded? Do I need to build a custom kernel and install that
on a rescue floppy?
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