At 01:55 PM 2/2/99 -0500, Richard Hall wrote: >Sounds like he needs a boot floppy with iso9660 support compiled in. Why >it's not there to begin with is beyond me. > >This seems like a really common problem with Debian installs. Someone >needs a custom boot floppy in order to get their SCSI controller to work >or their CD drive
I agree with what you say but Cristiano's CD ROM is IDE APATI support for which is in my (limited) experience compiled into the default kernel. , or whatever. I realize that not everything can be >compiled into the kernel for size reasons or whatever, but perhaps more >effort should be made to make the different possibilities as easy to find >as the basic resc1440.bin. Maybe a few more choices could be added in >addition to tecra. aic7xxx support is one that people are often looking >for, and it's in some obscure directory at debian.org. It seems like >Ivan's friend has a boot kernel without CD-ROM support. Perhaps he got it >from someplace beyond Debian's control, I have asked Cristiano to say where he got the CD's from - as you say it could be some moron version thrown together >but if you need a custom kernel to >boot from a CD, that should probably also be available as resc1440cd.bin >or something, for the sake of morons throwing together Debain Installation >CDs if nothing else. > >I realize that I'm in no position to criticize and that lots of people get >their boot floppies from somewhere besides a debian.org mirror I can't see any reason for anyone not to use an official Debian mirror - they can't all be busy all of the time. >, it's just >that in the handful of installations that I have been involved with, >custom kernels were needed over half the time. This seems like a big >obstacle to present to new users, and one which could scare them back to >M$. It is and it seems that, in Cristiano's case, it has >It's so great when that initial kernel boots up on the first try. >Really, I am extremely grateful for all the work that has gone into Linux >and Debian, and I'm out here recruiting new users and will continue to do >so, even if I have to compile a kernel for every one of them. Just wanted >to put my two bits in. > >Richard Hall >Network Services >University of Tennessee > > Ivan
