On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:53, Joey Hess wrote: > Shah wrote: > > I just got a new laptop (Toshiba R100) and I thought I'd give the new > > debian-installer a try. The laptop only has a USB floppy drive and I'm > > having trouble getting the installer to start. I dowloaded the > > bootfloppy image, the floppy image, and the net_drivers image and tried > > booting with those. The first floppy boots fine, but it can't find the > > second floppy... Is there anything I can try to get it going? > > Which versions of them did you download? The bootfloppy should have USB > support. Maybe it just cannot find your USB host adaptor or something.
I got them from: http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ > > Do you know that this USB floppy drive is in fact supported by linux? > I own one that is, and one that is not. Its the one the Sony Vaio's use: PCGA-UFD5. According to linux-usb.org its supported. > > It's possible that this is a usb hotplug issue, so one very easy thing > to try is boot up, unplug your floppy, and plug it back in. This may be > necessary for the kernel to notice it's there. When I tried this, the floppy drive spun for a bit, but the install wouldn't continue. Will it detect the disk and keep going? Or is there some key I'm supposed to press? I just hit enter and it still just sat there printing dots to the screen. > > A more complicated thing to try is, at the boot: prompt, enter > "linux BOOT_DEBUG=5" > This will produce a very verbose bootup, and it will drop you into a > shell at several points (just exit the shell to keep going). There is a > program called usb-discover that tries to detect your USB and load the > right module to support it. You can try running that, or modprobing the > appropriate kernel modules by hand. If your floppy is detected by the > kernel, /dev/scsi will be populated with a set of directories and > devices. If you have that tree, this is not a USB detection problem, but > something else. Trying this now... -- Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
