On Friday 16 August 2002 13:50, David Goodenough wrote: > I received an ECS A900 this morning (in the UK its sold by Novatech as the > N-Book) and tried to install Debian on it. > > First try was to install from the 2.2r3 CD I had (it has a CD drive, but > no floppy). This hung just after it had detected the lack of floppy. > > So I downloaded a BF2.4 ISO, and tried that. This got further, but the > box has SIS 630 video, and the SIS framebuffer driver obviously did not > like the support chips. So I overrode the boot line with:- > > linux vga=791 video=vesa > > and got further. I got a framebuffer with tux up the top, and it powered > its was through and put out the message:- > > Compac CISS driver (version 2.4.5) > > and hung. > > From what I can see the next thing it should be doing is looking for > ethernet hardware. This box is supposed to have a RealTek chip in it > but as yet I do not know what kind (I will find out shortly). > > I also had a copy of SuSE 7.1 lying around, so I tried that, and as > that does not seem to try to access the LAN hardware, it worked a treat. > > So at least I will be able to find out what kind of LAN chip I have > and whether the driver loads correctly (and which driver) for my next > Debian attempt. I would much rather run Debian than SuSE on this box. > > Any thought welcome > > David
Well it turned out that what I needed was the idepci boot ISO. From there on it was a breaze, given that I already had SIS630 chip boxes around and therefore knew to use the vesa driver until I could move to 4.2 (plus latest fixes) of XFree. Ta David
