Package: install Severity: important Using the new debian-installer to install Debian Testing on an Intel Pentium 166MHz, 64MB RAM, with two hard drives (primary and secondary master), a CD-ROM (secondary slave), floppy and two network cards. The main board is an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4.
(Debian Woody and RedHat 6, 7 and 9 have been successfully installed on this PC earlier.) Installing from floppies, since the PC will not boot from CD-ROM. Version: Floppy images dated 03-Mar-2004 13:21, downloaded from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/. (boot.img net-drivers.img root.img) Problem: I expect the installation to run to completion, once started. Instead, it stops when it comes to the partitioning of hard disks. It seems that the system is unable to partion disks, probably because it has not detected any disks. I am not able to get any further in the installation, and am left with an unfinished and unusable installation. Reproducing: Boots from boot disk. Inserts root disk when asked. Chooses default language, and norwegian keyboard layout. Loads drivers from net-drivers disk. My two network cards are found, and I choose one of them to configure for the installation. Configuration via DHCP works. The "testing" debian version is chosen for installation. Components of the Debian Installer are downloaded, and the installation progresses. The installer stops on the menu item "Partition a hard drive". Virtual console 4 shows a lot of messages about broken dependencies. Choosing the menu item "Partition a hard drive" by pressing Enter does nothing (as far as I can tell), just returns to the same menu again after about a second. Choosing the next menu item, "Configure and mount partitions" (the drives are already partitioned and formatted with ext2/ext3 from a previous installation), gives a message that "No partitions are found". Virtual console 3 now shows messages from insmod and modprobe that ext3.o, reiserfs.o, jfs.o and xfs.o are not found, and that loading these modules failed. Choosing the menu item "Automatically partition hard drives" gives an error message that "No disk was automatically detected". On VC3 is a message that lvm-mod.o is not found, and that lvm-mod failed to load. (NB: Note that the two hard drives are found correctly if I use the floppies from the beta 2 of the installer.) Choosing the menu item to save logs and configuration to a floppy results in no activity on the floppy (and no new files on it afterwards), and a whole slew of error messages on VC 4, ending in a series of messages about broken dependencies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
