During a floppy installation, you boot with the rescue floppy and will be prompted to install the root floppy and later the driver floppy or floppies. vanilla has a lot more drivers available and therefore requires more disks. The kernel-config files list which drivers are included in each flavor.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:32:14PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't > arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images > are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to > be used. > > but right now, i am wondering why each of the falvors, vanilla, > compact, idepci, udma66, and safe, come with their own driver-1.bin > image, but only vanilla has driver-[2-4].bin as 1.44 images available. > what gives??? > > and maybe someone could tell me exactly when the disks created with the > driver-?.bin files are used, and how i used them. > > yes, i am trying to do floppy-only installs until i can mount a local > nfs volume with the debian mirror. and yes, i need each of the > realtek, tulip, 3c59x, sis900, and ne modules, which are supposedly on > the driver-? disks. > > help! > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > "driving with a destination > is like having sex to have children" > -- backwater wayne miller > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S
