See attached installation report. -- Regards, Tim Vandermeersch
Belgian skolelinux team http://i18n.skolelinux.bo/belgium
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-09-26 http://gluck.debian.org uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.21-5-386 #1 Sun Aug 24 13:14:58 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2003-09-26 23:22 Method: boot from business-card cd-rom, install from ftp2.de.debian.org, no proxy Machine: VMWare 4.0.0 build 4460 Processor: Pentium III Memory: 64M Root Device: SCSI, Buslogic Root Size/partition table: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 3.7G 159M 3.4G 5% / Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Comment below Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: A better system to tell the user that they don't have enough ram would be nice. Mount Partitions: I already had a swap partition on my hard disk, and choose "Leave the file system intact". But instead of using that partition as swap, the installer asked me where I wanted to mount the swap partition (/, /usr, /boot, ...). After pressing <Go Back> and "Create swap space" it worked fine. But the question about where to mount the swap partition might confuse novice users. Install kernel image: When installing a kernel the progress bar stops at 50%, and the installer returns to the main menu without displaying an error. Then when I try to install a boot loader, it tries to install the kernel again (because it depends on kernel-installer which failed the first time?). After selecting the kernel image, I get this error: kernel-installer's postinst exited with status 25600 Next I started investigating what was causing the problem, on tty3 I found this: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: discover: Depends: libdiscover1 but it is not going to b installed ... e2fsprogs: PreDepends: ... ... E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution) I 'chroot /target' on tty2 and did 'apt-get -f install' and tried to install the kernel again which worked this time. After reboot: The keymap I selected during install isn't used.
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