Re: Sarge-i386-businesscard.iso

[Hank]

Andreas Rottmann wrote:

Hank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 

Hi!

I was trying out the Sarge-i386-businesscard.iso (40MB iso image).

http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso

What's the gluck stand for? Good Luck?

I burned the iso image and booted into the install process with this
CD, but did
not succeed installing anything.
A text console showed up with with about 5 steps for which I chose the
defaults.
I only got so far as installing modules from the CD. About 35 modules
showed up.
After a prompt I entered the module number and it showed
up as being selected in the list.
But then I was baffled about what to do next. The last option offered
(#5) to go to a shell
which I took and was told that I could use the nano editor and a few
shell commands.
   

I think the editor will probably be nano-tiny.
 

I thought the same. But that doesn't work either

 

However, once in the shell I noticed nano didn't work. It was not in
any of the paths.
I am guessing the installation left out the step of setting up
partitions on the hard drve.
And what's this about udeb? Some new package utility?
I read through the install documents and found nothing anywhere near
describing how to use this CD.
   

You obviously have grabbed a CD with the new installer
(debian-install, d-i for short). It's not yet in a state for general
consumption. If you want to install sarge, it'd be best to grab a
woody (netinst) CD and dist-upgrade to sarge (or unstable).
Regards, Andy
 

I think the Boot Image is Broken. The link for the business card came 
off Debian's website. Maybe I should file a bug against
the website? They were suggesting using the businesscard.iso instead of 
downloading a complete iso off the web to save bandwidth.

Kind of misses the point. If you can't use the iso and have to reload 
another iso, it's just a waste of bandwidth anyway.

Thanks for the suggestion on using Woody. I used it and did an upgrade 
with it.

It appears that there are too many problems with the d-i procedure: i.e. 
mounting and formatting
partitions, Screens scrolling off the screen to see all the modules, the 
nano editor not working, etc.

I believe it would have worked fine had I had there been a mounted 
partition. From the looks of messages, it appeared that the first deb 
that was going to be "udebbed"  only got to 1% because it had no mounted 
root file system to write to: i.e. a mounted partition on the hard drive..

Hank

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