On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Akkana Peck wrote: >The workarounds in the wiki will work for expert users (assuming >they find it), but I hope eventually the installer will be usable >by less experienced users too (even if it can't happen in time for >sarge's release). The woody installer handled this situation >without a problem, but it uses lilo, not grub, so I hate to point >newbies at it even if they have the network bandwidth to update to >sarge.
I didn't follow this thread closely, but it sounded very similar to the problem I had. I have two systems; SystemA has a tulip compatible nic card and a PIIX3 IDE controller. SystemB has a tulip compatible nic card and a BusLogic SCSI controller. Since I want to netinst, I need the nic-module from the net driver floppy and the ide-module/scsi-module from the cd driver floppy. I would probably have to use this work around, if I didn't find my own solution. What I did was to make a custom driver floppy. Since I knew which udeb I needed (from talking with people on debian.irc), I just loop mounted the images and copied the udebs I need into it. I had to delete stuff that I wasn't using like wireless and pcmcia, to make room for the nic udeb (its huge). Then I modified one of the files in the image that lists the included udeb and it worked... It's too bad there's no tool like jigdo for floppies. This way, anyone can just build their own custom driver floppy. Maybe after sarge... --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
