I'm sorry that I missed your original install report. I thought I allowed for multiple cdroms, but the code says otherwise. Would you mind running the following commands on your dual cdrom box and letting me know what you get?
dmesg | grep -i cdrom | grep -i ide | cut -d: -f 1 dmesg | grep -i detected | grep -i scsi | grep -i cd-rom | cut -d' ' -f 4 As for partitioning, the the newer, slower, and slicker partitioner, called partman, is available from the "expert" menu as Partition a disk. I'd be interested in your critique of partman too. The libgcrypt7 failure was a transient base package change and should be fixed. On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:11:49AM -0500, Hank wrote: > Seems like you're making progress. > > ext3 filesystem option shows up when formatting. Installation of > packages from the mounted iso image > is successful until it says it can't find a a valid kernel image during > the base installation. At which point the install > reverts back to the screen with about 20 options: partition a disk, > install the base system, etc. At that point I had > about 90 MB installed on the /target/ partition. That's interesting. I haven't tried hd-media with the businesscard, since the businesscard cd doesn't have a single deb on it -- just d-i udebs. Did you download base from a mirror? > I rebooted the system at that point. I tried using my own kernel and > modules by copying them from another > working system on a different scsi dri ve. I managed to boot into a > prompt after changing the /etc/fstab file to > mount the root and swap partitions: the fstab file only had two comment > lines in with no entries to mount any file > systems. base-installer didn't get to finish, so it shouldn't be a surprise that things weren't all setup right. :-\ > But I could proceed no further: I was asked for a password which the > system had not set up. I tried entering a > blank password for root, but that didn't work. That's base-config weirdness. Usually base-config starts and among other things, lets you set the root password. I suppose another thing that didn't get setup correctly. > Apparently, the business card iso is lacking kernel images for the mac > kernel? Yes, by design. I wonder if you hit a transient mirror problem? Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
