Problems with installation via http or FTP
Jason Osmond
jasonosmond at cfl.rr.com
Sun Nov 16 03:14:46 UTC 2003
Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>Hi Tim and list,
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>>On Friday 14 November 2003 23:58, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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?
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>>Maybe it wants the drvblock.img floppy?
>>Seems improbable, but maybe worth trying?
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>Already did; I got the same error. Someone else has this problem, too.
>Things that make you go hmmm!
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Same problem here, on an HP Vectra 6U. The network card is a 3Com 905,
but I tried swapping it out with a Dlink card I know works and I get the
same message for both.
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