From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Cree Subject: Re: [alpha] Debian 9.0 NETINST fails Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:07:09 +1300 Message-ID: <20181123200709.nc7uikaifg2xkrac@tower> References: <20181102184151.GA15241@gherkin.frus.com> <20181102185623.GB15241@gherkin.frus.com> <4cf52d37-6f60-1714-de43-f9c1b72202c7@web.de> <847ee7b7-29fa-c1ec-fd1d-610ddad190d9@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20181121205330.GA19204@gherkin.frus.com> <20181122053454.5qzz3qvlna3xt2v5@tower> <666da863-ccba-2972-c5e4-ae42870c3775@gmx.de> <04e3c137-1c38-a377-2442-5ea7d8242041@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20181123194116.GA14674@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181123194116.GA14674@gherkin.frus.com> Resent-Message-ID: List-Id: List-URL: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20181123200709.nc7uikaifg2xkrac@tower Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bob Tracy Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Helge Deller , Frank Scheiner , debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org 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.