dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed like boot/root disks. Good luck :-)
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:03:33PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the > debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating > system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via > network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using > the "compact" kernel. > > i am dealing with three machines, and they all have different network > cards. one is a ne2000, one a 3c59x, the next a tulip chip. i would > like to install the network drivers, but they aren't on any of the > disks. > > my headaches are with the driver-1.bin disk, which resides in the > compact directory -- how do i use it? it looks like a 512byte offset > gzipped disk image, but the debian installation program can't load it > - it waits for like 5 minutes before reporting that it "cannot mount > the floppy. stop." > > what's the native method to configure the network cards during a > floppy install? > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > 1-800-psych > hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline. > if you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. no one > will answer. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
