I am in a twisty little maze of installation errors, all different. I downloaded the current Potato "compact" diskette images for installation onto a Compaq ProLiant 1500R. The box has a Compaq NetFlex NIC (tlan driver) and the disks are connected via a Compaq SMART2/P RAID controller (cpqarray driver). "compact" is supposed to have both of these drivers built as modules.
I can't get the modules loaded, so I'm stuck near the beginning of installation. These drivers don't seem to be on the root disk. Okay, I select "preload essential modules from diskette". The drivers-1.bin image isn't any kind of filesystem image that I understand; 'file' doesn't grok it, and says it's just binary data. The installer agrees: it says it can't mount the drivers diskette. Okay, I found the combined drivers archive and unpacked the drivers I needed. I copied 'em to a diskette with an ext2 filesystem, into the /boot directory. Now the installer can find the modules, but it says they failed to load. I switch to vc2 and find it usable, so I manually 'insmod' them. I am rewarded with a dozen complaints about unresolved symbols. By now I recognize that I'm just floundering, having missed some critical piece of information. Would someone please point me in the right direction. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day.
