Synopsis: Can't install Debian. Details: I'm using the ~186MB "woody-isolinux.iso" boot image. The target system is a Tyan Thunder K7, with onboard 3Com ethernet, and an Adaptec 2100s RAID controller.
If I boot from the default, it seems to think it has a network, but no disk drivers. If I try to load drivers from a floppy, it complains that it can't mount the floppy. I'm just using disks made from the driver-N.bin images, which look as though they're just large gzipped files. The exact message is "Critical Error", "Unable to mount the floppy disk, can't continue." If I try to use bf24, which I'm told should have the "DPT" drivers I need, I don't get either network *or* disk drivers. If what I'm supposed to do is not "put driver-1 on a disk and put it in the drive", I'm stumped. (It does seem like maybe the driver-n images should be readable from the CD?) FWIW, this may have to do with system quirks; this Debian CD is the only CD I've been able to boot on this system, every other disk or floppy I've tried just stops at a blinking cursor around the time it should be either booting or saying it can't find a system disk. System is Athlon MP (just one for now) 1800+, 512MB memory, IDE CD, regular floppy, and disks attached via RAID controller. Nothing else very exciting. I can't find a clear answer to the question "what is this network card", but it appears to be a 3Com, and FreeBSD drives it with the xl0 driver. -s -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
