-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I just tried to install sarge onto my STB-3036 unit via netbooting (dhcpd/tftpd). The only 'disks' available on this unit is 2x128 MB usb memory sticks. Had to boot with "linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false". The netboot image, however, doesn't have the usb-storage module included. Thus, I had to extract this module from kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386_2.4.26-4_i386.deb and place it on a web server available to the STB-3036. Then when partman prompted me to "Partition disks", I went to a shell and worked my way around the problem: mknod /dev/sda b 8 0 mknod /dev/sdb b 8 16 mkdir /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/usb/storage cd /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/usb/storage wget http://www-host/foo/bar/usb-storage.o depmod -a modprobe usb-storage modprobe sd_mod Went back to Alt+F1 and reloaded the partitioner. Now I could see my usb sticks available as sda and sdb. I was really nervous at the very end of the installation, since 'df -h' told me that 116.4 MB out of 117.1 MB (on /) was used :) Had a separate partition for /var where 81.6 MB out of 88.5 was used. Swap space was 32 MB (20 MB was in use). Upon reboot I went to BIOS, only to discover that the STB-3036 in fact does not supporting boot from usb. Yeah, really stupid I did not check up on this, but I was certain that I has seen this option in BIOS. Well, at least I hope somebody with a usb bootable unit can make use of this stuff (I'll add it to http://wiki.debian.net/). B/R, - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBJLBOLSX61ZxOtagRAgU2AJ9ADEaP251eK2STb9c1b0Qd7mQdfwCeMacp PQ+GyAbEhlTcUszuT77uDY8= =uZMI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
