On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:21, Jack Carroll wrote: > 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? >
I've tried before and had similar problems with loading modules from floppies. I would suggest 2 things: 1. try a different install kernel (type F3 at the CD boot prompt) 2. build a custom kernel and copy it over linux.bin on the boot floppy most likely, if you are going to be booting off a SCSI controller for which the install kernel doesnt have a driver compiled in, you are going to have problems, and will have to compile a custom kernel. The "load modules from floppy" option often isnt really useful - loading modules usually can be put off until after you've got a base debian install and can more easily configure your system to support whatever hardware you like. -davidc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
