I am installing Linux for the first time on my P90 'old beater' machine. I
am using a floppy install of Debian 2.20 (no CD Rom), and think I have
imaged all the disks correctly.
I have been plugging through the installation menu and all seems fine up
to the "Install OS kernal and Modules". All my driver disks are accepted,
but then when I choose to Configure the Device Driver modules, I am given
an option to load some modules from floppies or skip the step.. I skip
the step and get:
No modules found in
/target/lib/modules/2.2.18pre21-idepci that could be configured.
Please install the modules first.
So I am assuming I need to get some modules on disk first.. but where are
these things? I am using a pretty old machine and find it hard to believe
that none of my cards are in the driver list (I understood that modules
and drivers are sort of the same thing.. yes?). Few things: 1) is there a
viewable list of what drivers are included on my driver disks? 2) is there
some additional disk I need to obtain from ftp site? 3) Is this step
critical to the installation, or is it something I should skip over and
finish the install, and then fix it up from inside the shell?
