--- Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
>
> So you probably need a kernel that has usb support
> compiled in to read
> the root disk, which probably means you need a 2.4
> kernel, would that be
> correct ?
Correct. That's what I did in the end. Prob is the US
--- Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That's how I install Debian on my laptop, which has
> no floppies and, for some
> misterious, refuse to boot from Debian CD's. I was
> thus in the same situation
> as Michel.
No you're not :) see below
> > LILO doesn't load at all - froze after
> 'Uncom
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:37:57AM +, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
> -- Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> Hi
> >
> > I think what Eric means is that you have a hard
> > disk, you can put the
> > rescue.bin and root.bin etc into a DOS directory,
> > along with loadlin
> > and t
-- Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Hi
>
> I think what Eric means is that you have a hard
> disk, you can put the
> rescue.bin and root.bin etc into a DOS directory,
> along with loadlin
> and the complete base_2.2.tgz (or whatever the file
> is called). The
> simple .bat file (whi
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--- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,
Feb 20, 2001 a
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> Note that
this would also work for those few of us
> that use bootable IDE
> LS-120 drives and no legacy floppy (and can't write
> the 2.88MB image to
> the LS-120 yet, of course.).
>
> -- Ferret
So to summarise:
In the kernel:
- USB mass storage
- PCMCIA
That sho
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:01:36PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
> >
> > --- Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if I understand well, but don't you
> > > have any hard drive ? If you
> > > have one, you can install Debian from it.
> >
> > I have a
Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
>
> --- Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I understand well, but don't you
> > have any hard drive ? If you
> > have one, you can install Debian from it.
>
> I have a hard drive, yes :) But when booting off the
> rescue floppy one then has to us
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:57:33PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> So you probably need a kernel that has usb support compiled in to read
> the root disk, which probably means you need a 2.4 kernel, would that be
> correct ?
But even in 2.4 USB storage support is... um... a bit dubious.
Dan
/
Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
>
> --- Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if I understand well, but don't you
> > have any hard drive ? If you
> > have one, you can install Debian from it.
>
> I have a hard drive, yes :) But when booting off the
> rescue floppy one then has to us
--- Eric VB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if I understand well, but don't you
> have any hard drive ? If you
> have one, you can install Debian from it.
I have a hard drive, yes :) But when booting off the
rescue floppy one then has to use the root floppy as
well. When using a USB flo
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:06AM +, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> *note* Please cc me - not on the mailing list
>
> My notebook uses a USB Floppy drive and a 3rd party
> (non-bootable) CD-ROM drive; I am not sure about the
> state of the boot floppies in CVS but the ones from
Hello,
*note* Please cc me - not on the mailing list
My notebook uses a USB Floppy drive and a 3rd party
(non-bootable) CD-ROM drive; I am not sure about the
state of the boot floppies in CVS but the ones from
Potato (well, Woody unofficial CDs but they seem
nearly identical to Potato's) differ
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