On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:14:07 +0200, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Don Wright wrote: >> Debian-installer-version: Daily netinst from 20040913 >> Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 >> (20040913) -- downloaded as sarge-i386-netinst.iso from >> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/ > >That's a rather old image unfortunatly. I'm sorta suprised it worked, I >thought software raid was broken recently until the 17th. Tested (and update filed earlier) with a more recent version - same result. New install tried using 20040923 netinst.iso - now fails during LILO install. Tried earlier image again, it too now makes it through to LILO before failing. (Grub hangs at 50%, as warning stated.) Difference seems to be that CD is on primary channel (hda) instead of secondary channel (hdc). More tonight when I can test again. >> ... Both EXT3 and >> JFS installed succcessfully (completing the installer, adding packages >> with aptitude, and completing test reboots) > >That's fairly good news for root on raid actually. Did you have to do >anything special with the bootloader or anything to get it to work? Nope. Used defaults for everything but the 'manual' partition & RAID 1 setup. No shell access needed, no changes to grub files. >> but XFS failed with an odd >> error during base install. <<big snip>> >Do you have the whole log available so we can see what package it was >unpacking? Will post various logs later tonight. Unable to save log to floppy (menu entry) using either a disk formatted with Win98 or with fdformat from another Debian box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
