[plug] net installer

[Denis Brown]

Hello Greg.

At 09:19 PM 13/02/2005, Greg wrote:
>Hi PLUG  folk
>
>Ive been trying to use a net installer cd that allows Sarge installs . 
>Unfortunatley it goes pear shaped when it  tries to detect the hdd
>It works fine for knoppix or a woody installer. Has  anyone else 
>experienced this? Can someone point me to a  image that  works

 From the Rusty Dusty Memory (tm) department... see if there is an 
"ide=nodma" option or something similar that you can select at boot 
time.   I had similar problems with an early Gentoo installation CD.   All 
fine until it tried to detect the hdd then whammo.

HTH,
Denis