On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:10:32PM -0700, curtis wrote: > About a month ago I created a CD image for a 2.4.x installation, [snip] > I think it was, ?install modules and drivers,? it asked me for > access to a file. Unfortunately, I don?t remember the name of the > file or the default location it was trying to locate it in, but my > question is: why? Do I need to also burn some files and directories > to the installation CD? And, how could that be possible, if the CD > is burned as an image? Or, am I completely missing something.
I seem to remember someone saying that those additional questions are no longer asked by the latest 3.0-pre CD releases, because as you mention there is no point in their being asked. The files are already on the CD, and the installation system can just load them - the question is asked because the system is designed to work for bootable floppies too, and the question makes sense in that case. > I then have the option of choosing from a list of directories or > typing in the appropriate directory. I permit the installation > program to search for the directory itself. It looks for the > following: "images-1.44/rescue.bin " > > And then comes back that it can't find "rescue.bin, drivers.tgz" I recollect having a similar problem long ago when I installed 2.2r0: I had to specify the directory manually, because the automatic scanning didn't work. On my old 2.2r0 CD the following is present: dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/compact/drivers.tgz dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/drivers.tgz dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/idepci/drivers.tgz dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/compact/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/safe/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/compact/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/idepci/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/udma66/rescue.bin dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/udma66/drivers.tgz > So, I go to the CD FAQ. And what do I find: ...information about CDs. Your question is outside the scope of that FAQ! :-) > "The packages on the CDs are sorted by popularity: CD 1 contains the > installation system and the most popular packages. CD 2 contains > slightly less popular ones, CD 3 even less popular ones, etc.[snip]" > > So, I used Jigdo and I got 3 files. Are you saying each is for a > separate CD? Yes - and just a single CD is already sufficient for installation. > I see nothing on the FAQ about what I'm supposed to do with these > images and how to install. Well, you write each image to CD-R and boot from CD. Everything after that should theoretically be described in the installation manual <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual>, which is linked to from the CD pages. HTH, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
