On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 11:30, guy keren wrote: > > On 15 Dec 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > Thank you very much to all that replied. I was already aware of the > > possibility to install from HD , floppies or network. Unfortunately, the > > RedHaT install mailing list post I quoted indicates that all of these > > have been tried and failed because the problem seems to lie with the IDE > > chip set - e.g. no HD, floppy etc will work. I was more hoping for > > someone that might have gotten the IDE chip set to work but it looks I > > will have to do it myself. > > question: which kernel exactly is used during the installation process? i > presume this is NOT the kernel found in redhat's updates? cause the > updates redhat add seem to also include support for newer hardware. > > i guess it should be possible to somehow take their installation floppy, > replace its kernel with the updated kernel, and try again. ofcourse, > checking if the updated kernel supports the IDE chipset beforehand would > be a good idea ;) but then again - you probably already thought about > trying this route... >
I hoped for someone to have done something along these lines before and tell me that it worked and save me the trouble of finding outexactly which version is the working one ;-) I guess I'll just have to try it myself with the latest Linus tree and hope for the best. > and btw, its your fault that you didn't state you already tried those > ideas ;) I did not try them myself, I found a post of someone else who did and included it in my email with the reference that the symptoms I were seeing were identical to what they described. Thanks, Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "Denial really is a river in Eygept." ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
