On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Wright wrote: > One of the nice things about installing hamm was that I could do it with > one floppy and a zip drive. So I was really looking forward to putting > slink on a couple of new boxes which are, as far as possible, MS-free. > > So I partitioned a disk, got to "Install Operating System Kernel and > Modules", popped over to VC2 and tried to mount my zip drive. > "sdb4 not a block device". Looked at VC4: only 1 scsi host (my > empty hard drive). > > After saying how easy it was, here I am with a very red face. > Do I have to go back to pumping floppies (9 now!) to install slink. > This is a big step backwards.
The problem is that the ppa driver required to make the ZIP drive to work is now out of the kernel (i.e. as a module). [ This is a difference between Debian 2.0 and Debian 2.1 that I discovered last week, when I was also trying to install it from scratch on a CD-ROM-less machine ]. So you'll need two floppies: the rescue and the drivers floppy. Fortunately you may use the ZIP drive as the source for the base system. (i.e. the base2_1.tgz file). Just remember to load the ppa module when the rescue floppy allows you to do it. Thanks.
