Hi, I finally upgraded my notebook it now has a new harddisk, but unfortunately the slimline DVD drive I bought is too high. If anybody knows where I can get a super slimline DVD/CD-RW combo or better, that is 9mm high instead of 12.5mm, please let me know. With no working CD-drive and no floppy drive in the noteobok, I decided to try PXE netinstall, a first for me. I had a little trouble to get tftpboot going, the instructions I found on the d-i pages and the debian wiki where a little contradicting wrt the location of the files (/tftpboot vs /var/lib/tftpboot). Once I had that figured out and the notebook would find it's files, everything went great straight from the net.
The installer found two network devices, eth0, an Intel e100, and eth1, my firewire connector, and asked me which to use. So firewire does not always come before ethernet, as happened to me last week on AMD64, but d-i now lets me chose the correct device. Everything afterwards was a standard install, no problems came up (except for apt-proxy running very slow on my Pentium2 server, so I had to fall back to the AthlonXP but that is not related to d-i). My only comment would be about a /.aptitude directory with an empty config file. Why is it there? Why is it in the root directory? I never use aptitude, but if it has to create a directory, shouldn't that be in some other place, like /var maybe? Great work! Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
