If you can't install off the cdrom because it doesn't recognize some of your
hardware, then there's a good chance that the kernel on the cdrom doesn't
have any modules for your hardware.  If that's the case, then you'll have
to make a custom cdrom.  

Gabe

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 07:57:50AM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:
> 
> > I run into this all the time since I boot off a 3ware escalade.  You need
> > an initrd image so your kernel knows which modules to load.  rtfm mkinitrd.
> > It's rather simple.  You just make the initrd image and then put an 
> 
> Are you saying that I need to build a custom kernel and use it in place of
> the kernel on the Debian install CD-ROM?
> 
> -Tim
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