Anyone ever changed the Debian Installer?

[The General]

I need a Debian installer that uses a 2.6.18rc4 or higher kernel, as all other kernels can't see my cd-rom drives.

Only other option would be use a Gentoo LiveCD and install with debootstrap, but I've never done it before and the thought is kinda scarey.

[jakec]

General,

I don't know that much about Debian, however there is A new debian updated Release that appears to use the 3.1r3 kernel

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03670#0

EDIT: delete this, just an updated Version not a Kernel!

sorry !

This MIGHT be of some help to you I'm not sure:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=206992

Jake

[macdude425]

You could get the sources for d-i, modify them and compile, but I've tried to do it before, and it is no walk in the park.

[The General]

Wow, this is proving to be a royal pain in the arse. I followed the instructions at http://d-i.pascal.at/ and put the Debian installer on a USB flash drive. It boots and the installer runs, but it STILL LOOKS FOR THE CD-ROM DRIVE! How the @#$% am I supposed to install Debian WITHOUT A @#$%^ING CD-ROM DRIVE!?!?

It says it can't find a suitable ISO image! GAHHH!!!!

[macdude425]

Do it from floppy. I know FOR A FACT you don't need a CD drive to do it that way. But be forewarned, know the IRQ address of your netcard, because you may be prompted for it.

[The General]

Whats a floppy? No, really, I don't have a floppy drive and I don't have floppy disks. That and I think it can't even use my floppy drive if I had one, being that from what I understand, the floppy drive is on the same IDE controller as the cd-rom drives.

There is no reason this shouldn't work, Maybe I should plug my drives into my old motherboard (which works) and install, then take them out and stick them into my new motherboard, then install a 2.6.18 kernel. But still, there is no reason this shouldn't work from USB. The installer boots. Maybe I need to modprobe ide-generic or something? Meh whatever. I'll post back when my head explodes.

[The General]

Wht the @#$% is JMicron? And why do the SATA drives show up as IDE devices? I hate this motherboard.

[The General]

Here's a triple post, oh and don't worry, [IMG] tags have still not been enabled. (There's another vote of confidence. )

Anyway, I plugged my harddrives into another computer, installed Debian (and did NOT boot Windows) then plugged them back into my computer, but now when I boot Debian it hangs here and I'm not sure how to fix this, seems like it'd be simple though.

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/2299/img1298vs1.jpg

EDIT: Nevermind, I switched the cables around and am now booted. I just need to find the correct kernel modules for networking. And I had to change the BusID in xorg.conf to PCI:1:0:0 instead of PCI:5:0:0. Networking, compile new kernel (2.6.18rc4 or higher) to get cd-rom support, then video and I should be set.

EDIT AGAIN: Can't get networking to work. Had to change /etc/networking/interfaces from:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

I had to change eth2 to eth0 and allow-hotplug (whatever the @#$% that does, it's always just been auto) so now it is:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

But that didn't fix it, I still get nothing. My network card is a Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) and supposedly it is supported by the sk98lin kernel module, but I read on the Gentoo website that it is deprecated and to use the sky2 module, but neither of them are working.

EDIT AGAIN LOL: Change to eth1 and problem is solved. I am keeping this for the benefit of the next person to search Google for info about the same issue, otherwise I'd just edit the whole thing out, lol.