[Howto] Installing a current release of Debian on Amiga

[djbase]

Is there a way to install Debian over Network too? I guess I need some netinstall initrd.gz? I have no CDROM on my A1200...

[djbase]

No AmigaOS on this HDD... I wanted to use a PCMCIA CF drive with an ISO for installation but its not recognized...

[djbase]

Well... it seems to be really complicated to install Linux on an Amiga 1200... I have NO CDDrive and NO AmigaOS partitions... just an A1200 with PCMCIA Network or CF card and an empty harddrive...

Now how to get Linux installed?

I can start from a modified Workbench Floppy and mount the PCMCIA CF Card which contains the vmlinuz, inird, amiboot and the install script... the kernel boots up and installer starts... but thats it... no network, no access to the PCMCIA CF card...

You see my problem? Maybe I did something wrong or its currently just not possible what I have in mind...

[djbase]

Its a Netgear FA411 which works under AmigaOS but not on Linux... had the same problem with NetBSD... sadly...

But what I found out... when using the "nativehd" initrd.gz it tries to setup the network and get the files over the server... thats what I was looking for... so I need another PCMCIA NIC (8bit) or someone can patch the kernel and make the Netgear FA411 to work...