Shyamal Prasad said: > > milti> for the past couple of days, ive been trying to do a > milti> floppy/network install of woody on my sony picturebook (usb > milti> floppy/xircom netcard) and have not been able to get past > milti> the rescue disk: the error that stands out is > > milti> root fs not mounted > > The (Sony) USB floppy cannot be used with any of the Woody boot > images. Your BIOS boots from the floppy, but after that you are stuck > because it is only visible as a USB device. The bf2.4 image includes the > USB support as modules, but you need the USB floppy to get them loaded > into the kernel ;-) You are kind of stuck.
Hmm. That's useful to know. How about this .. I have a friend who has an IBM ThinkPad with a broken internal CD-ROM, but a working floppy . However, she has an external USB CD-RW. Since the woody install diskettes include USB support as modules, can I use this external USB CD drive to install woody on her laptop (after booting with the boot/root floppies, of course)? Or will I need to go thru the whole install using only diskettes, and then have it recognize the CD only after the reboot? The last time I installed Debian not from a booting CD was potato, a long time back. :-) > > There are several patched boot/root disks that do include the USB > drivers you need in the kernel on the boot disk. > > For example you could try > http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~blochedu/usb-install/ > > Or follow the advice on > http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~dhofer/sony_vaio_pcg-z505ls.html -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
