retitle 425121 d-i: format from the command line tags 425121 moreinfo thanks
Op 19-05-2007 om 02:57 schreef Brian Dockter: > Image version: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-i386-CD-1.template > Date: 19 May 2007 > > Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: <snip/> > 0000:00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 > I/O ports at 10a0 [size=16] That is the IDE controller. > Comments/Problems: > Everything went fine until it tried to detect the hard drives. It could > not find my installed hard drive. The hard drive shows up on the BIOS > and in /sys/block/hda after the install disk is booted. The drive is > installed as the master on the ide0 controller. The CD is the master > on ide1. Okay. > I was able to boot up in an older version of Knoppix (with a 2.4 kernel) > and partition, format, and mount the drive. There are also succesfull installs with a 8086:7111 ( example given: http://bugs.debian.org/413075 ) > I was able to partition the > disk and write to it using dd from the Debian installer command line, but > I could not format it. When I tried to format the disk from the installer > command line, I got a floating point exception. And what is the idea of leaving the installation menu, starting a command line session for doing a manual disk format? (the debian-installer does perfectly format disks on the "main screen") Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
