[lug] Debian CD install problem

[Jim Ray]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:26:18PM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Michael J. Pedersen wrote:
> 
> > This should work, I would think. Which SCSI card do you have powering this
> > setup, and does 2.1 include support for it?
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I should have mentioned the SCSI card:
> Adaptec AIC-7800 Ultra/Ultra with BIOS v1.26s6 Dell 06s6
> 
> I have no idea how to tell if 2.1 includes support for it.  Since
> it's at least three years old, I thought it would.
> 
> I should probably order 2.2 from somebody, CheapBytes?  Is there
> any way to download images of the Debian CD's from somewhere?  I've
> only seen packages.
> 

The iso's are available via FTP from ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/2.2_rev0/i386/

There's 3 iso's.

jim



> > > kmod: failed to exec -s -k block-major-3, errno=2
> > 
> > This leads me to believe that a necessary module is not being loaded, which is
> > why things are failing for you. Since I know that block-major indicates it
> > trying to get the drive itself going (not even to the point of reading what
> > the drive has, just trying to access it), I would recommend checking to make
> > sure that your SCSI card module is loaded by then. Without it, I don't expect
> > it to work.
> > 
> 
> I don't either, if that's the problem.  The 2.1 CD I have is a publisher's
> version which may be incomplete.
> 
> Thanks,
> GM
> 
> 
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