install needs a driver disc

Antti antti at victoria.fi
Wed May 19 19:05:49 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 21:38 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 22.05.2004 schrieb Antti um 04:54:
> 
> > I tried the hard-drive installation method. Put the initrd.img and
> > vmlinuz files to the right place and booted with them. When I select the
> > Hard drive option from the installation methods I get the prompt where
> > it asks if I want to use a driver disc. Is suppose this isn't a bug.
> > What drivers do I need? 
> > 
> > Is it possible to start ftp or http installations without a floppy or a
> > cdrom? I'm just wondering my options to get the new FC2 installed.
> 
> What hardware do you have? Do you have SCSI or what kind of ATA
> (motherboard, chipset, controller)?
> 
> And please correct your date / time setting. You are posting from the
> future.
> 
> Alexander

Is this enough:

[antti at onyx antti]$ dmesg | grep hd
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: HITACHI_DK23CA-20, ATA DISK drive
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA
(33)
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Adding 325040k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal


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