If you can't install off the cdrom because it doesn't recognize some of your hardware, then there's a good chance that the kernel on the cdrom doesn't have any modules for your hardware. If that's the case, then you'll have to make a custom cdrom. Gabe On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:57:50AM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > > > I run into this all the time since I boot off a 3ware escalade. You need > > an initrd image so your kernel knows which modules to load. rtfm mkinitrd. > > It's rather simple. You just make the initrd image and then put an > > Are you saying that I need to build a custom kernel and use it in place of > the kernel on the Debian install CD-ROM? > > -Tim > > -- > Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: > Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ > W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ > wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "The fearsome...veecous.....Crocostimpy!! If we leesten real close, we can hear his beauteeful mateeng call!" -- Ren "Happy Happy!! Joy Joy!!" -- Crocostimpy - Ren & Stimpy in "Nature Show" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------