Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jukka Neppius wrote: > > 1. No documents! The page > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has a promising link to > > "The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO". Unfortunately it does > > not give anything. > > I think you'll find that link is working now. We're still in the process > of restoring services after the recent security breach of the Debian > servers.
I think there should be some kind of README in dists/sid/main/installer-i386/ with one line explanation of every file in it and a link to "The Debian-Installer's INSTALLATION HOWTO" > > > 5. An old problem: I usually make a 'small' root partition. > > (currently it should be about 150 MB, my first Linux computer had > > total 80 MB disk space.) This computer had relatively small disk, so > > I made only / & /usr. I should have made symlinks /var -> /usr/var ... > > I forget that while trying to configure non existing CD, so I run out > > of disk space. Tasksel did hide the error message so I had to use old > > reliable dselect. It told immediately what is the problem. Fix was > > easy. Perhaps installer could check the size of / and if it is small > > and not all big partition were made, ask user where /var should be > > moved (same with /usr, /home, /tmp). > > How exactly did tasksel hide the error message? I am not sure if I remember this correctly. I made selections in tasksel and clicked 'Finish'. Screen flashed and I got selection page again with nothing selected. I got out of it and started dselect. I soon got 'disk full' error. > I don't think that having the installer make symlinks would be very > good. It would be good if it tried to ensure that the disk sizes were > sane, but of course different people's definitions of "sane" varies in > this area. I agree. But warning would be nice. Something like: You have very small /, /usr, /var, /tmp 1. Fix by making new partitions. 2. Repeat this test. 3. Proceed anyway. Hint: for example if your / is too small to contain /var you can: ALT-F2 mkdir /usr/var (or if /var is already created 'mv /var /usr/ ') ln -s /usr/var /var For installation to succeed / should be big enough for everything without its own partition. > > Result was working system. Network and sound drivers were found > > automatically. > > Good deal, you should fill out the installation report template you'll > find in /root, and file a proper install report with that template that > includes the hardware you installed to so we can track it. I'll do that later. - Jukka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
