Help installing debian

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Tortanick, Jul 18, 2006.

  1. Tortanick

    Tortanick New Member

    I'm trying to install debian, I will have two HDs in RAID, however I only have two IDE controllers, and one small one for a floppy disk.

    Since I want a 2.6 kernal I can't just use a Netinstall floppy, so how do I get round this?

    I was thinking I could move the Hard drives into master slave for the install and move them back afterwords, would that work?

    P.S. its an Old BIOS that dosn't allow booting from USB as far as I can tell
     
    Last edited: Jul 18, 2006
    Tortanick, Jul 18, 2006
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  2. sjau

    sjau Local Meanie Moderator

    Can't you install 2.6 from the floppies the same as from a network install cd?
    On the CD you just specify linux26 [Enter] upon booting...
     
    sjau, Jul 18, 2006
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  3. Tortanick

    Tortanick New Member

    tried that, it didn't work
     
    Tortanick, Jul 18, 2006
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  4. sjau

    sjau Local Meanie Moderator

    That I didn't know :(
     
    sjau, Jul 18, 2006
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  5. Tortanick

    Tortanick New Member

    I read about installing from a hard drive in the manual, but I can't figure out how to do this without unless I want to leave an untouched installer partition, any advice?
     
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    Tortanick, Jul 18, 2006
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  6. sjau

    sjau Local Meanie Moderator

    Maybe go into irc.freenode.net in the channel #debian
     
    sjau, Jul 18, 2006
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  7. Tortanick

    Tortanick New Member

    I asked, no luck so far
     
    Tortanick, Jul 18, 2006
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  8. Tortanick

    Tortanick New Member

    Tortanick, Jul 18, 2006
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