On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:42:02PM -0400, Jack Carroll wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:21:52AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > What is the reason for using 'expert'? > > I've been doing it that way for so long, it's reflex now. I want to > make sure it doesn't try to do something like partitioning my hard disk > without asking how I want it partitioned. That would be really upsetting.
the default boot (that is another one then 'expert' ) _does_ ask about partitioning .... <snip/> > > Here I miss /dev/hda1 > > Any idea where that partition went? > > > That's the / partition for Sarge. That's the known good distro, > which I want to keep working, while testing other distros on the other two > sets of partitions. I have the drive partitioned to boot 3 operating > systems, with a common /usr/local partition and a common /data partition. > (I got away from a common /home partition, because different distros > sometimes need different files in their home directories. So now I give > each user a directory in /data, and point to it with a symbolic link in ~, > in each /home.) You will encounter "different distros, different files in /home" also at /usr/local I recommend Xen[1] for testing different distro's on the same hardware with a "known good distro" > > > > > > > Mmm, interresting. > > The rare case of upgrading a Debian system by a re-install. > > (the usual way to get from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch is > > editting /etc/apt/sources.list and then > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > ) > > It didn't occur to me to try exactly that. I still could. What I > did was edit etc/apt/sources.list to include both Sarge and Etch, set Sarge > as the default branch, and installed a 2.6.15 kernel to do some testing. I > hit what appeared to be a bug when loading modules, and wanted to test a > pure Etch distro to see if it was still present. Not wanting to take time > to download and burn a CD, I downloaded the Etch RC2 installer floppies > instead, and found they didn't work. So I figured I'd try the daily build > floppies before reporting a bug. And that's where we are now. > I've tested the floppies, and found a solid bug. The major question > is whether it's because the daily build floppies don't include a boot.img, > and are incompatible with the RC2 boot floppy, and therefore I should stop > testing the floppies until one appears. I have no clue what you are trying to tell. Please rephrase your original challenge. And send it to the mailinglist debian-boot@lists.debian.org The ML debian-boot@lists.debian.org is where development of debian-installer is discussed. It is the place where I saw this bugreport. > > Anyway, we still have the Sarge system to invest this situation. > > > I'm re-installing that now, to get it back to a pristine state after > monkeying with a bunch of config files. > I think what I'll do after that's running is take your suggestion to > do a dist-upgrade to Etch in /dev/hda2, and get back to what I was > originally trying to test, which was installing multiple Ethernet driver > modules on the 2.6.15 kernel. I still have the third set of partitions, to > test the floppies on when I have a known valid set of floppies for testing. This bugreport caught my attention for it's original subject, Debian installer doesn't install kernel Installing (multiple) Ethernet drivers is worth a new E-mail thread. > Why apt-get, by the way? I understood that was deprecated a couple > of years ago in favor of aptitude, because of the way RECOMMENDS and > SUGGESTS dependencies are handled. You are right, I should switch to aptitude myself. The reason that I didn't switch yet, is that I didn't take time to find how to change the default behaviour of aptitude for installing Recommend packages without asking. > > Please provide the output of > > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda > > I'll get you that in the next message, after the install finishes. Does that mean that when we see the partition table, you have a finished install? Cheers Geert Stappers [1] http://www.xensource.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
