Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

Bob Smither wrote:
I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao
laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party
PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive.

I am using the boot.img, root.img files from etch beta 2:

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-
i386/beta2/images/floppy/

The system bios is set to boot from the usb floppy and it boots the
boot.img just fine.

After coming up, the install prompts for the root.img. When I press
enter at this point, there is an oops and the usb floppy cannot be
found. I am guessing that the install is at this point using its own
floppy driver and it expects a proper, non-usb, device.

No, the debian installer is designed to work with usb floppies here too.
The problem is that the new kernel is not working with your hardware.

Is there a way around this?

Netboot?

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