On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 03:39, <pe...@easthope.ca> wrote: > > David, the current procedure is simple enough. Have you or anyone you > > trust run the procedure with the specific three (iso, vmlinuz, > > initrd.gz) files you cited? > > Yes ...
Looking now, I can confirm that I did a Debian installation here on 20 Oct 2020 using these files. There is no doubt because they are still on the hard drive. I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same files. On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 09:27, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > The starting point is that you have chosen > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-10.6.0-i386-netinst.iso > (current, stable, i386) $ md5sum *iso f327723426dc90a4daaf1609595d8306 debian-10.6.0-i386-netinst.iso > Per the "paragraph 3" I mentioned previously and quoted at the top > of this message, the required vmlinuz and initrd.gz for (current, stable, > i386) > can be downloaded from: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ $ md5sum * d3f41e1b683fa87cca189f8595b80a7c initrd.gz b30966bc534a606bb8dafab40e106ca9 vmlinuz What next? I suggest to check the installer log just after the search fails. The method of doing that is here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.en.html#di-miscellaneous I think the logs are usually scrolling into virtual console 4, or you could start a shell on virtual console 2 and look for them. in the /var/log directory. See if you can find any error messages from the 'iso-scan' process in the file /var/log/syslog. The installer main menu offers a method of saving the log files if you want to paste anything you find here.
