Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails
Just a quick update, and hopefully there's a Gentoo advocate/developer reading this... Trying the 20181120 minimal installation CD fails due to the firmware for the Qlogic ISP1020 (1040.bin) SCSI adapter not being present, either as built-in to the kernel or as a standalone file. No firmware means no hard disks detected means "full stop" -- can't get there from here. --Bob
Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:41:17PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > Trying the 20181120 minimal installation CD fails due to the firmware > for the Qlogic ISP1020 (1040.bin) SCSI adapter not being present, either > as built-in to the kernel or as a standalone file. No firmware means no > hard disks detected means "full stop" -- can't get there from here. Yeah, that's a problem. I think the Qlogic firmware is in the firmware-linux-nonfree package. You will need to get that separately from the main repo. Do you have a floppy drive? The installer gives the option to scan extra disks for firmware; not sure if it would scan a floppy disk but it should scan a CD for firmware so you might be able to write another disk with the firmware. (One would normally put the firmware on a USB stick but I an guessing that is not an option for you.) Cheers, Michael.
Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails
On 11/23/18 8:41 PM, Bob Tracy wrote: > Just a quick update, and hopefully there's a Gentoo advocate/developer > reading this... Not sure whether Gentoo folk is reading the Debian mailing lists, but you can get in touch with them on #debian-ports on OFTC IRC as some of them hang around there. Any chance someone can get me full access to an Alpha box so I don't have to hurl my AlphaStations out of the basement? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
