Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-10 Thread Jack Carroll
Thanks, guys for all the clues so far. Looks like the next step is to spend tomorrow evening reading the docs you suggested, then build an install kernel on one of my working machines. I have Libranet 2.7 and 2.8.1 on everything, and a bare Debian 3.0 on one machine's /dev/sdb. -- To U

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-10 Thread Justin Guerin
Sent to private email by mistake. On Monday 09 February 2004 17:03, Jack Carroll wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:41:11AM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > > On Saturday 07 February 2004 16:21, Jack Carroll wrote: > > > [snip] > > I was able to load RAID drivers from a floppy. My floppy was forma

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-09 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:02, David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 22:24, Jack Carroll wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:15:07PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > > > > > This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has > > > > anybody successfully done an install

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-09 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 22:24, Jack Carroll wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:15:07PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > > > This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has > > > anybody successfully done an install from floppies on a system that needs > > > modules to be loaded?

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-08 Thread Jack Carroll
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:15:07PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > This sounds like a problem with the installation instructions. Has > > anybody successfully done an install from floppies on a system that needs > > modules to be loaded? Do I need to build a custom kernel and install that > >

Re: Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-08 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:21, Jack Carroll wrote: > Didn't find anything about this in the archives. > I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have > SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always > booted installation programs from floppi

Floppy installer fails to load modules

2004-02-07 Thread Jack Carroll
Didn't find anything about this in the archives. I want to install Woody or Sarge on two older machines that have SCSI CD-ROMs and SCSI hard disks. Neither can boot from a CD. I've always booted installation programs from floppies in the past. I downloaded the boot floppy