[Herefordshire] Debian install

["Andrew Hodgson" <andrew hodgsonfamily org>]

Hi,

 

I have just got some CDs containing Sarge.  The Woody set I have does not work on this new motherboard, and the drives are not rekognised.  Anyhow I am running the Sarge install with the linux 2.6 kurnel, thus am starting the install at the boot prompt by typing in ``linux26''.  Anyhow I then get to the point where it does a hardware check and it explains that there are kurnel modules missing and I should probably use a Debian mirror to get the files.  Not good on this 64k connection.  Anyhow I go past this and get to the point of detecting my Ethernet controler, again it can't find this.  I can go ahead and do the install, (it can even see the SATA disks!), but I am not really happy about doing this at present since all the warnings I am getting explain that the install will probably fail on reboot if the modules are not found.  Does this error mean that I have stuff on this system that is detected but is not available on the CD, or are files missing from the CD itself? 

 

I also get this on the floppy disk installer I got from the Speakup site.  I am ultimately wanting to use Debian with a Speakup and Gnome system.

 

Any help? 

 

Thanks,

Andrew.