Hello folks, the new installer is a truely amazing piece of software, Thanks!
I tried a fairly new image but failed, see below. Cheers, Erich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 24-Dec-2003 netinst.iso from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ ~/tmp 95 > md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso 4aebe03b212df62024c33575922b1b50 sarge-i386-netinst.iso ~/tmp 96 > grep netinst sarge-MD5SUMS.txt 4aebe03b212df62024c33575922b1b50 sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Date: 27.Dec.2003 Method: net DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium Machine: Processor: AMD K6 / 200 MHz Memory: 320 MB Root Device: SCSI /dev/discs/disc1/part3 Root Size/partition table: 2 GB Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11) 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) 00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [E] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: initial boot worked ok on CDROM which did have the described problems with earlier images! Boot: net DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium Yes, I would like to have an "expert" switch, too :-) choose mirror ... proxy = http://192.168.1.42:80/apt-cacher/ will not work for installer download, but would be nice. Detect Harddrives: ide-detect successful, loads ide-disk, and hw-detection will produce an error while loading ide-disk --- again --- but everything will work Load installer modules: marking lvmcfg and md-tools ok, however, I would need raidtools as well. There is a raidtools2-udeb on the CD image, however, I have not succeeded to install that. I can write /etc/raidtab myself, but without mkraid, raidstart, ... at my fingers, this is of no use. :-( mounting partitions: loads jfs modules, but does not show in list (ext2 ext3 reiserfs) also loads xfs module, but fails. see last point, since I could not convince the installer system to make a md raid or two, 1 for boot, 1 for lvm based everything else. resorting to a 2 GB ext3 partition, /dev/sda3's equivalent to continue installing base system: FAILS IMMEDIATELY with "Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-386/Packages." find /target ... /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release.malformed which does, however, look innocent to my eyes. nothing in /target/var/log/debootstrap.* lots of messages on vc/4, but cannot get up to start of this problem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]