just filing a success report - the 'current' (2/24?) sarge bootcdimage managed to install on my SATA-disks-only dell gx270. i'd been fighting it for most of a week. i chose to try it one more time after seeing new stuff roll into the archive last night - the 2/17 images had not worked.
one quirk i noticed - it never asked me for network configuration information, at all. i had to go in post-install and edit resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces by hand. one other quirk - i installed with usb keyboard and mouse. asking to use LILO bootloader seemed to harass 'discover' into running and putting the system into an endless loop [some failures detecting hardware - maybe vesafb? system has an nvidia fx5200 gfx card. i also saw some messages about usb scroll by alongside the vesafb diagnostic message, along with a some executable or another dumping core.] . i wound up re-starting the installation and using grub instead. this is not terribly optimal, obviously. anyway, very glad to have this machine up and running - a week of work lost fighting to get a usable installer with SATA support ;) --elijah On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:25:40 +0100 > From: Thomas Poindessous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Erich Waelde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: netcfg broken? (20040224 image) > Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:44:06 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:45:34AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > netcfg (0.47) unstable; urgency=low > > > > * Joey Hess > > - Use three dots in ellipses for consistency. > > - Link libiw statically. This is temporary, until there is a libiw-udeb. > > > > Joeyh, can you comment on this ? > > yesterday, i did a change to build/debian/control to add a dependance > for libiw27. Please revert this change if you need. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
