On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:58:40AM +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > I fired up a bochs machine and booted the netinst CD > > It sat looping saying "unable to load vesafb.o"
This is a bug in usb-discover, which should be fixed in the latest upload, ie. it should reach the netinst CD soon. :-) > I selected 'detect cdrom' and d-i kindly told me there'd been an error > whose text was 'EXIT' before succeeding to detect the cdrom This is a bug in busybox ash, which again should be fixed in the latest upload and reach the netinst CD soon. > After realising that this was the pre-DHCP dialog, I continued, > continued again, and ended up back at the main menu with no indication > of whether or not the DHCP succeeded. All I knew was that d-i had > highlighted the PPP/serial option suggesting to me that DHCP had failed. > (It hadn't) This is a bug in main-menu, which _again_ should be fixed in the latest upload. You seem to have gotten rather unlucky :-) > As I fought my way through the partitioning and formatting options I got > many error dialogs containing what look like the output of cfdisk, only > containing piles of escape strings too. AFAIK, the partitioner is still broken. The HOWTO mentions this, but it is definitely something that should be fixed. > installer[21577]: WF: Retrying failed download of %s > > Where the %s really was '%s', I'm not introducing a placeholder here, > the error message was failing to perform the substitution. Yes, I've reported this very same bug earlier today. :-) I hope somebody else can comment on the rest of your mail -- I just wanted to point out that at least some of the problems you've reported are known bugs that are hopefully fixed real soon :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
