Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
When installing from scratch from floppies (for a Network install) I had to
also download and write to floppies all the driver-* disks to get my
rtl8139 driver to do a network install.
Is there a way I can avoid the time of loading all those driver disks and
just get my get the driver for my ethernet adaptor card installed and
configured?
Currently, I load all four disks, then I'm only selecting the network card
from the list.
Thanks,
Bill Moseley
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry for the late reply, but this "might" help you.
Look at the other "flavors" of install disks. Both he "compact" and
"idepci" flavors contains only one driver disk. The "idepci" flavor has
the rtl8139 support compiled into the kernel, so you don't even have to
configure ANY modules to get the network install going if you don't want
to take the time. You WILL have to load the disk, but you can exit the
"configure driver screen without installing any further dirver modules.
It IS possible to install the kernel and drivers off the network too,
but this has NOT worked for me here. You can check out which drivers
are installed by looking at the "kernel-config" file located in each of
the "flavors" directories.
I also just installed the new "bf2.4" flavor a couple of days ago, and
it had the 8139too driver built-in. This is a nice "flavor" in that it
provides the 2.4.17 kernel, and allows you to setup a journaling
file-system if you want (ext3, reiserfs). It has the usual full set of
driver disks (4), but again you really don't have to install anything to
get it going if you don't want. All you really need is the ethernet
driver, and that was 'built-in'.
I have used the idepci set several times here and have had no problems.
The only down-side is after you get the install completed, you
probably will want to go get the full kernel-image. What is installed
is merely a sub-set... just enough to get you going for an install.
HTH
-Don Spoon-
