Hi again,

I have some progress :)

> It looks like it has something to do with the harddisk size. I did
> another test with a 2GB harddrive, 512 MB AFFS and the rest free. This
> time the partition tool was able to detect the partitions and create the
> new ones [2].

I was able to overcome the issue this way: I removed every partition on the HDD 
except the AFFS boot one and let the d-i repartition the rest of the drive. 
That worked well, shows my full partition scheme and let me select the 
partitions to format, filesystem and mount points [1].

Afterwards it proceeds to install the base system, but eventually hangs up in 
one of the "Retrieving xxxxx" packages, never going beyond 6% due to seek 
errors on the CD-ROM through A1200 Gayle IDE driver (I guess due to something 
odd in the emulation). 

I guess my best bet would be to try the hd-media initrd, but I tried to copy 
the ISO to a FAT16 partition in the Amiga RDB disk and the d-i was not able to 
detect it. Going to the console, it looks like the system is not able mount FAT 
or ext2 volumes at that stage; so I am a bit a loss how to continue from there. 
Since I do not have a real CD drive on the Amiga 1200, the hd-media option for 
installing Debian would be my only option on real hardware. I would be thankful 
if someone could point me in the right direction to use it and install the 
system without CD drive.

I tried the nativehd image as well, but there are not Amiga network drivers 
that the needed stage of the d-i, so that one is not usable.

Regards,
Carlos

[1] https://i.postimg.cc/HxZr0TjQ/amiga-linux-4.png

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