Installation form SCSI CD-Rom

[Christopher Jayne]

Thanks for the input.  I could not get it to work, so I transfered the  
ISO's over to my test machine and loaded off the hard drive.  FC2 is now  
up and running, and appears to recognize everything.  So Far So good.

Christopher

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:45:39 +0200, Alexander Dalloz  
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Christopher Jayne um 19:33:
>
>> I am just trying to install FC2 for the first time on an older test
>> machine.  Both of my CDRoms are connected to an ADVANSYS SCSI PCI
>> controller.  I have no problem booting from the first disk, but when I  
>> get
>> to the Installation Method Screen, choose local CDRom, I get No Driver
>> Found, and I do not see a supported driver on the List.  Can I get a
>> driver that can be put on a floppy?  If so where? (Advansys (now
>> Initio)Website does not have current driver) I have spent several hours
>> browsing Newsgroups etc. with no luck.  I checked my iso's with md5sum  
>> and
>> did not see any problems.
>
>> Christopher C. Jayne, RLA
>
> Try to install with "linux noprobe" and choose the SCSI driver by hand.
> The initial FC2 kernel has following module
>
> $ modinfo /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/scsi/advansys.ko
> license:        Dual BSD/GPL
> vermagic:       2.6.5-1.358 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3
> depends:        scsi_mod
>
> which should fit I think. Though the current FC2 kernel does not ship
> with it any more.
>
> Alexander
>
>



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