Thanks...that's the sort of details I want!!

It seems i was mistaken...i'm using the netinstall CD...and i don't have
all day to download and burn the CDs. Oh well...it'l only take 40
minutes to download the netinstall for testing. 

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:47, shadow wrote:
> liberty young wrote:
> > I'm using a CD, which has a complete /lib/modules/2.2.20 tree (and
> > the installer uses 2.2.20)..the problem is that 2.2.20 doesn't
> > support my Ethernet Card, and I want to do a network Install.
> > 
> > I've already tried going into the console and manually entering the 
> > proper driver..but the proper driver doesn't exist yet! I know a
> > later 2.4.x kernel will do, i was just hoping that there was a CD
> > install that uses a precompiled 2.4.x kernel.
> 
> CD's 2 through 5 will each boot a different ``flavor'' depending on
> which CD-ROM is inserted.  Here's how the flavors are laid out on the
> different CD-ROMs:
> 
> CD 1 - Allows a selection of kernel images to boot from (the idepci
> flavor is the default if no selection is made).
> 
> CD 2 - Boots the `vanilla' flavor.
> 
> The standard kernel package available in Debian. This includes almost
> all drivers supported by Linux built as modules, which includes drivers
> for network devices, SCSI devices, sound cards, Video4Linux devices,
> etc. The `vanilla' flavor includes one rescue floppy, one root and four
> driver floppies.
> 
> CD 3 - Boots the `compact' flavor.
> 
> Like `vanilla', but with many of the less-frequently-use drivers removed
> (sound, v4l, etc). In addition, it has built in support for several
> popular PCI Ethernet devices — NE2000, 3com 3c905, Tulip, Via-Rhine and
> Intel EtherExpress Pro100. These built in drivers allow you to take full
> advantage of the Debian installer's net install feature to install the
> driver floppies over the network so that only the root and rescue floppy
> disks need to be made. Finally, `compact' also supports several common
> RAID controllers: DAC960, and Compaq's SMART2 RAID controllers. The
> `compact' flavor includes one rescue floppy, one root and two driver disks.
> 
> CD 4 - Boots the `idepci' flavor.
> 
> Kernel that supports only IDE and PCI devices (and a very small number
> of ISA devices). This kernel should be used if the SCSI drivers in the
> other flavors cause your system to hang on startup (probably because of
> resource conflicts, or a misbehaving driver/card in your system.) The
> `idepci' flavor also has a built-in ide-floppy driver so that you can
> install from LS120 or ZIP devices.
> 
> CD 5 - Boots the `bf2.4' flavor.
> This is an experimental flavor which uses a special version of the
> kernel-image-2.4 package. It provides support for newer hardware
> components which is absent in the other (more stable) flavors. It
> supports more USB hardware, USB keyboards/mice, modern IDE controllers,
> some new network cards, and Ext3 and Reiser file systems. Compared to
> the driver set of our main kernel-image-2.4.x-yz packages, some
> non-essential drivers have been removed in order to keep the number of
> needed floppy disks in a sane range. If you have unexplainable problems
> with kernel 2.4, you should use other flavors. If you need more new
> drivers or optimisations for your CPU type, feel free to install an
> "official" kernel-image-2.4.x-yz package. This flavor comes with one
> rescue floppy, one root and four driver floppies.
>