Woody on Dell Precision 650

From: LIOTTI Luca (luca.liotti_at_crf.it)
Date: 01/09/04

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    Dear friends,
    I am tryng to install Debian 3.0r2 on my Dell Precision 650 Workstation.
    Since this workstation has 2 SCSI hard disk it is impossible to make a
    boot from Debian cd, they don't contain support for my LSI 1020 SCSI
    controller.
    I have made a 2.4.23 kernel with SCSI and MCA support on another Debian
    machine,
    I have replaced a idepci bootfloppy kernel image with this 2.4.23 image.

    My system make and excellent boot, and I can access to both SCSI HD and also
    to the Ethernet.

    But when comes the time of "Install kernel and modules"
    is it impossible to mount the rescue floppy.
    I have tried to select, as source, /cdrom (correctly linked to hdc, the
    first IDE cdrom)
    and /dev/fd0.
    The answer is the same: "Unable to mount Rescue floppy. Maybe you have
    inserted the wrong floppy"
    If I try to choice another source, the system said me that /instmnt is busy.
    Maybe someone could help me?
    thank you in advance
    Luca

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