Hello folks, I'm trying to install SuSE Linux 9.0 on my machine, which has no cd-rom drive. Therefore I decided to start the automatic installation from a floppy disk. I compiled a "small" kernel (I have got the stadand kernel from SuSE 9.0 as basic), changed the root device of it with rdev and put the compressed kernel onto a floppy. Then I installed syslinux with the command syslinux -s /dev/fd0. The syslinux.cfg on the floppy looks like this (but the values in the <> are real ip settings): ------------------------------------------------- default linux append init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/nfs ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gateway-ip>:<netmask>::eth0: nfsroot=<server-ip>:/data/distributions/pub/suse/i386/9.0/root_fs vga=normal prompt 1 timeout 30 readinfo 2 ------------------------------------------------- On the same floppy I put the file named info, what linuxrc is to be able to read from. Here it is: ------------------------------------------------- netdevice=eth0 server=<server-ip> serverdir=/data/distributions/pub/suse/i386/9.0 ip=<client-ip> netmask=<netmask> gateway=<gateway-ip> nameserver= insmode=eepro100 autoyast=nfs://<serverip>/autoyast.xml install=nfs://<server-ip>/data/distributions/pub/suse/i386/9.0 ------------------------------------------------- So I started the computer from the floppy and saw, that the boot process runs normal, the root fs is mounted and linuxrc is started. Linuxrc then starts the automatically hardware scan, found devices etc. It can even read the info file propierly. However while it tries to access the install directory at the nfs share, it doesn't use the network connection, that has been just established, and tries to load the modules for the nic (Intel EtherExpress 10/100), it could found. The modules are e100.o and mii.o as described in the file modules/module.config. In this place I get an error on the vt3: Looking for a network server... Trying to activate eth0 Setting up localhost... done Sending DHCP request to eth0... no/incomplete answer. Ok, that didn't work; see if we can activate another network device... inmod e100 insmod mii Oops, that didn't work. No further netowrk cards found; giving up. So the automatic install process is stoped here and I'm requested to insert the module disk 3 (to let it load the further network modules in the hope, it could find some more :-) I tried some other settings (dhcp, fixed ip address etc.) but couldn't solve the problem. My nfs server and the directory structure on it look fine as I could install some other computers from CD + Floppy + NFS. Can anybody help me ? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you ! Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hermann Maurer GFT Financial Solutions GmbH IT Services Frankfurt Düsseldorfer Straße 13 D-65760 Eschborn http://www.gft.com -----------------------------------------------------------------------