Erik Dykema wrote: > Everything seems to boot up fine, but the kernel fails to detect the > adaptec scsi controller, so the installer gets to the 'Partition Hard > Drives' part without any warning and then won't go any further. There > is no error message suggesting that hard drives were not detected.
We currently have the following situation with netboot installs of unstable debian-installer: - The netboot image needs to download the scsi and ide drivers from the debian archive; they are not included in the image. - By default, d-i uses the versions of the udebs in testing. - In unstable, d-i has switched to the 2.4.24 kernel. The version of d-i in testing uses the 2.4.22 kernel. Therefore, if you want to do a netboot install using the unstable version of d-i, you need to make sure that you tell it to install unstable. This will include looking in unstable for the scsi, ide, and other kernel modules, where it will find the 2.4.24 ones. It will also include installing debian unstable to your hard drive, unless you go back to the mirror configuration step after d-i downloads the rest of itself, and switch it back to using testing. -- see shy jo
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