debian

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> I was giving Debian my first try. I downloaded rescue, root and driver-1 disks.
> The ones for reiserfs since the drive was already partitioned and reisered. It
> booted fine and seemed to see my motherboard davicom ethernet hookup. It
> reported via rhine driver. Once in the menu it reported no ethernet cards to be
> found. The same with a RTL8139 in the pci slot. NFS install was a no go
> therefore. I am kind of surprised ftp install is no option. I guess you can
> install base over NFS and then switch to ftp for the rest?!

You need to use the idepci disks if you want to do a net install.
The "default" disks don't have the net drivers compiled in.

> So I gave harddisk install a try. I put in my /dev/hdb partitionless ext2 drive
> with debian tree on it. It saw the drive on boot but it gave me no option to
> install base from it since it probably requires partitioned drives. SuSE can be
> installed from partitionless drives so I guess I was expecting too much. I
> suppose I should really get away from using partitionless drives...

It is really quite wacky to not partition your drives.  You save,
what, one kilobyte?  Why do you insist on not partitioning?