From: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
To: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>,
debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:07:09 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181123200709.nc7uikaifg2xkrac@tower> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181123194116.GA14674@gherkin.frus.com>
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 01:41:17PM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Trying the 20181120 minimal installation CD fails due to the firmware
> for the Qlogic ISP1020 (1040.bin) SCSI adapter not being present, either
> as built-in to the kernel or as a standalone file. No firmware means no
> hard disks detected means "full stop" -- can't get there from here.
Yeah, that's a problem. I think the Qlogic firmware is in the
firmware-linux-nonfree package. You will need to get that separately
from the main repo. Do you have a floppy drive? The installer gives
the option to scan extra disks for firmware; not sure if it would
scan a floppy disk but it should scan a CD for firmware so you might
be able to write another disk with the firmware. (One would normally
put the firmware on a USB stick but I an guessing that is not an
option for you.)
Cheers,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-23 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-02 18:41 [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails Bob Tracy
2018-11-02 18:56 ` Bob Tracy
2018-11-06 12:36 ` Frank Scheiner
2018-11-07 15:08 ` Bob Tracy
2018-11-07 15:12 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-11-21 20:53 ` Bob Tracy
2018-11-22 5:34 ` Michael Cree
2018-11-22 7:58 ` Helge Deller
2018-11-22 8:34 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-11-23 19:41 ` Bob Tracy
2018-11-23 19:57 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-11-23 20:07 ` Michael Cree [this message]
2018-11-24 21:57 ` Bob Tracy
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