Re: clean hd-media install onto hard drive partition of old SCSI box

2013-07-18 Thread sar0113
Hi, Chris, > You do realise that posts on this mailing list are archived at various > places around the Internet, don't you? Yes, I realize posting to this mailing list exposes the e-mail address I have used. The statement, which my editor automatically adds to all of my emails, indicates my a

Re: clean hd-media install onto hard drive partition of old SCSI box

2013-07-17 Thread sar0113
Thanks for the response (and sorry about replying to your email address rather than the list) Good to know Wheezy comes with the Initio driver module. I wasn't sure how to tell by inspecting Wheezy install CDs. However, I'm going to install Lenny first as I have the CDs and want to avoid a net ins

clean hd-media install onto hard drive partition of old SCSI box

2013-07-17 Thread sar0113
Hello, I want to install a recent Debian distribution on a clean partition of a stand-alone SCSI box which runs multiple legacy OSes, including Woody. I did not upgrade Woody because driver support for my Initio SCSI host adapter was problematic with supplied 2.6 kernels for several years, but app