on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:31:16AM -0800, New Disorder Records ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, > Michael Martinell wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 09, 2003, New Disorder Records > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > I am trying to install debian on a dell poweredge, but I need > > > drivers for the hard drives and ethernet card. I have found the > > > drivers, but I have no idea how to put them on a floppy disk so > > > that debian will see them when I put the floppy in. I don't have > > > other debian machines in the office, so I have to make the > > > floppies on a windows machine. Any advice about how to put the > > > drivers on a floppy so that debian will see them would be greatly > > > appreciated. > > > Here is how I set up my Dell > > Set up Debian 3.0r1 on Dell Poweredge 2400 > > > > 1. Insert Debian disk and boot from it. > > 2. At boot: prompt type bf24 and press enter. > > 3. Complete rest of install normally. Make sure to install the c <...> > thanks, but I can't install normally if I can't see the hard drive. > The installer (any one of the flavors of installer, including bf24) > doesn't see the harddrive on my 1750, so I need to install a driver at > that point, I assume, in order to continue the installation. > > So, I can make it to step 2 of your steps, but not step 3. I have a > driver, I just need to know how to make a disk that the installer will > recognize to load it. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? For clarity and to support conversational discussion style, please use bottom-posting format: your reply goes below the material cited. Trim your quotes appropriately and ensure your attributions are accurate. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/email-style.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html Thank you. My recommendation in cases such as this is to utilize a chroot install. There are instructions in the standard Debian Installation Manual, or my own (slightly divergent) instructions at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall The secret to a chroot is that you first boot a GNU/Linux system on your hardware that _does_ support the core system: console, disks, network. Then you initiate a Debian installation within this environment as a chroot (change root) process. It's not terribly different from a stock Debian installation, but it's far more flexible. Choices for a booted system include Knoppix, Morphix, DemoLinux, LNX-BBC, tomsrtbt, and other bootable GNU/Linux distributions (that is: bootable on removeable media), _or_ a previously installed GNU/Linux system. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth
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