2006/10/22, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'm going to have to close this installation report as a "successful
install" because AFAICT the installer did everything right. If a device
is not supported in the kernel, there is very little we can do.
Sure. My intention was to announce a "success so far as you can do".
The additional hint I wanted to give is that there should be some easily
detectable information for newbies if something like that happens.
I would think the following would be helpful (for instance in the case of
a not detected NIC):
Your computer contains a network card `output of lspci | grep Ethernet`
This is card seems not to be supported by the current installation kernel
of Debian GNU/Linux. (Don't know whether this is a reasonable guess
because there might be other types of failure.)
You might try to ask your favourite Search Engine to browse the internet
for "Debian Linux `string from above`" or ask debian-user for further help.
The problem is that I wanted to demonstrate a newbie how easy it is to
install Debian on his fresh box, but failed and there was no clue given
what to do next. I do not want to blame the installer for failing where it
has no chance to success but we could try to give at least some information
how to proceed now. I admit I have not read the installation manual and
perhaps some information is given there. But even then my suggestion
above should be turned into: Please read installation manual topic
"Trouble shooting (or whatever)".
Kind regards
Andreas.
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