> > 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. > > Well that is good news, I think this is the first indication we've had > that SATA works with d-i.
yeah. :) > > 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. > > Known problem, will be fixed in tomorrow's images. fabulous. > > 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. > > It sounds like the installer crashed. it seemed to. > You mention you have a USB keyboard. Did it also work after the reboot > into the final system? This is something else we have fixed since beta 2 > and not tested for sure. yes, it worked. it did take a minute - the keyboard i'm using (dell-badged keyboard with usb hubs at the back corners - i think they said it was a logitech when we ordered the hardware) took a while to show up. i finally got some console messages about it finding the keyboard's hub right around the time that the first console login prompt showed up. elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
