Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > I can't imagine, that none of the debian users has an Adaptec controller > in his PC. Where is the excellence of the debian distribution, when it's > unable to install on a conventional hardware, where Caldera, Suse, > RedHat and Slackware can without any problems. > > Don't talk, face the facts! And fact is, that debian can't install on a > conventional hardware. Has anybody a solution for the problem? Has > anybody more to offer than talk?
Since I had to make a custom kernel for the Debian 1.3 rescue disk to install on my Adaptec 2940U-based system, ftp://ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca/users/rhogee/Debian/ perhaps something could be borrowed from Slackware here. Let the rescue boot disk be as generic as possible (like now), and include a directory containing specific kernels for specific hardware (à la Slackware). Only the `linux' kernel and `sys_map.gz' file need to be copied on the rescue disk, a fairly trivial operation if the custom kernel is made available. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
