Problems with installation via http or FTP
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Nov 15 13:20:48 UTC 2003
On Friday 14 November 2003 23:58, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> I have downloaded the Fedora bootdisk.img onto a floppy, and the
> installation menu starts up normally when I boot from the floppy. But,
> when I get to the point where I want to download via http or FTP, it says
> I need a driver. Fine; I have the drvnet.img downloaded and placed onto
> another floppy. But then it says that "no devices of the appropriate type
> were found on this driver disk" when I try to use that floppy, which I
> have reformatted and reloaded the driver file on there, with no errors.
>
> It is a new computer this is going on; it's got RH 9 already installed.
> I wonder if it is too new for the driver disk to pick up something that
> is needed. Anyone have any ideas?
Maybe it wants the drvblock.img floppy?
Seems improbable, but maybe worth trying?
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