Package: installation-reports
installation-report: mips weekly netboot.img 2006-06-11
I snatched an old SGI O2 off the garbage, what better use is
there than trying a new netboot image?
Boot method:
network boot:
bootp(): append="debconf/priority=low"
Image version:
Boot image from
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Hello,
this my first installation on powerpc :-)
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: from
http://www.uk.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
following the beta4 link
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/beta4/sarge-p
owerpc-netin
Quite clearly:
[X] Mark Riedesel (Klowner)
[ ] Matthew A. Nicholson
[ ] Volkan YAZICI
[ ] Alessandro Polverini and Andrea Mottola (first logo)
[ ] Alessandro Polverini and Andrea Mottola (second logo)
[ ] Mark Selby
[ ] No boot logo
[ ] Further discussion
Cheers,
Erich
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Hello,
are you sure you sent your message to the correct list?
E.Wälde
Stephanie Hönes writes:
> Hallo,
>
> ich habe gerade im Forum den Beitrag zu dem Installations-Problem mit dem
> Paket "nano" gelesen. Ich habe genau dieses Problem, wie in dem Beitrag
> beschrieben. Sobald ich die Deb
Hello,
Christian Perrier writes:
> Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > > Not sure. Maybe "Partition disks" and "Partition disks (cfdisk)"
> > > since cfdisk might be a term people understand... but that's not ideal
> > > either. I'm sorry I don't have a good solution either. :/
Hi,
Donald Duck writes:
> Wanted to try Sarge. Got Official jigdo files for the testing distribution
> on CD.
> Downloaded only 'Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official Snapshot i386
> Binary-1 (20040306)'.
>
> While booting the CD (mode linux or expert, no difference):
>...
>loadi
Hello,
I did a vmware install using
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040309/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
I did a typo in the boot line and ended in the default install :-)
Thus I got to use the new partitioner partman.
I was impressed to see a message, that xfs for /boot is not
Hi,
W. Borgert writes:
> Hello,
>
> today I sat down together with an experienced Linux/UNIX admin and
> we went through the complete installation with RAID1. Unfortunately,
> we didn't succeed. We have two identical HDs and created four
> partitions on each in an identical layout. We s
Hello,
W. Borgert writes:
> That message was meant for debian-boot, but didn't appear
> there, so I send it directly to you. Cheers!
>
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +, W. Borgert wrote:
> > Hello Paul and all,
> >
> > today I tried your iso image, but had not the time to
> >
Hello,
I put together a noisy config with 2 scsi disks on a dumb scsi controller
on an otherwise homebrew i386 system.
I went through the install with the image provided by
Paul Fleischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
available at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pg/debian/netinst-raid1.iso
I managed to set
Hello,
forgive me should I ignore important details that were mentioned on the
thread before.
Johannes Behr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's really frustrating. I must have a running system on
> the notebook for a presentation next week. I thought I could
> use reinstall my debian (had some
Hello,
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is what happens during an Expert install:
> - Choose language, Choose country, Select keyboard layout: OK
> - Detect and mount CD-ROM
> . via-rhine is shown in list of modules to load (with [*] in front)
> . Message: unable to load some modu
Hello Frans,
looks like you have chosen the adventureous path :-)
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After an installation-report for a mostly successful install using Beta-2, I
> received a suggestion from Erich Waelde to try:
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdim
Finn-Arne Johansen writes:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:45:13AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Paul Fleischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD
Hello,
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Debian-installer-version: Beta 2 (i386 100MB CD image)
> uname -a: Linux sauron 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
> Date: Feb 29 15:30
As with most sw development things have moved on. If you feel adventureous
enough to give it anot
Hello,
Paul Fleischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD
> Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test
> it.
I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit.
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Hello,
Todays image is ok with the reported netcfg problem.
My second sight of the boot splash screen --- just lovely!
I'm quite impressed about the new language chooser! And yes, my timezone
was suggested correctly! Not the mirror site, though.
l
Package: discover-data-udeb
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
> [Erich Waelde]
> > One minor thing for discover:
> > System is a Asus M2400N noteboot with intel centrino chips (firmware 0206)
> > tries to load i82365 module, which fails.
> > yent
Hello,
yesterday I managed to install sarge with the image
gluck.d.o/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040223/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
i choose nobootloader, which failed.
Today I read that a newer version on nobootloader was uploaded :-)
however, "Configure the network" returns without doing any
Hi Andrew,
Apart from lvmcfg not installing lvm-common + lvm10 or similar,
there is one more thing to check for:
If a "standard" 2.4 or 2.6 Debian Kernel is installed/used (which
is what d-i does), it will have "CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y" or in other
words: devfs support built in. In that case lvm expe
Hi,
Thanasis Chrysos writes:
> Package: installation
>
> Version: sarge-i386 built 2004-01-31
>
> * The system fails to install. Examining the debootstrap.log file shows:
>
> ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists
This happens when you install base-system a second time without
reformatti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> In short: Installation is great, but SW-management
> so difficult that I don't even know where to begin.
Well, I felt lost until I installed "aptitude". This gave me the
view on sw packages I liked and understood. You can disable
"install recommended / suggested p
Hello,
Marc Herbert writes:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > Quoting Marc Herbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > > Generally speaking, I find the new design of the installer very nice:
> > > I like the idea of being able to go back and forth between "clever"
> > > and "m
Chris Leigh writes:
> Package: installation-reports
>
> I have a D-Link DE-220 ISA Card. The address/irq is 0x300, 11.
> The detection failed (its not a PNP card).
> Choosing the module 'ne' also failed, because it did not prompt me to
> enter the io port and irq.
ISA detection is shaky.
Hello,
nosing around I found
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06750.html
Where the poster writes:
> SATA disks can be seen as ide of scsi, I have only had success with scsi
> (kernel config CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y), otherwise the syustem freezes
> right after th
Hi,
Finn-Arne Johansen writes:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:40:33AM +0100, Paul Fleischer wrote:
> > Hi again,
> > I have put both the mdcfg and my modified mdadm package (modified to create
> > the udeb) up on http://proguy.dk/d-i/ for those who want to try them out.
> > Only the source pa
Florian Effenberger writes:
> Hi Eric,
>
> It would be good if the installer could ask whether you want autodetection
> or not, WHILE and AFTER installation.
>
Hm, not entirely sure, but booting "expert" instead of just pressing return
gives you the choice whether to scan for hw or not. T
Hi,
Florian Effenberger writes:
> I want to disable the hardware auto detection on bootup, because it does not
> always work reliably. The method with /etc/modules.conf is sometimes better
> :)
I guess, you mean _after_ the installation is done. I found out that
"discover" is doing this, and
Giuseppe Sacco writes:
> The actual italian language is colony of english language :-(
Do not despair, we are with you!
Erich (from Germany)
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Hi Paul (or Christian ?),
Christian Christmann writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the new kernel 2.6.1. To do this, I already tried
I'm running the debian stock kernel 2.6.1 on my desktop system without problems:
% uname -a
Linux artemis 2.6.0-1-k7 #2 Sun Jan 11 17:06:46 EST 2004 i
Hi Dennis,
Dennis Stampfer writes:
> Hey Erich,
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:43:04AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote:
> > * Set the host name
> >
> >
> > menu: "Hostname festlegen" Hm. "Rechnername" maybe? I know a fair
>
Jörg Friedrich wrote
> Thorsten Sauter schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 um 23:55:57 +0100:
> > * Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 14:46]:
> > | The translation of "no-dead-keys" into "ohne Tottasten" is not good. It
> > | means "without Death-keys". Better would be "ohne tote Tas
Alwin Meschede writes:
>
> If this is OK for most (all?) of you, I'll check in the stuff to CVS.
With me, that is obviously ok! :-)
Thanks,
Erich
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please add
- raidsupport
the md-modules are already available (used by the lvm-stuff), and
should be useful without further modification I think. So that
would need a raidtools2 udeb or similar and a config dialog to
create /etc/raidtools.
ok, it's one of my favo
Steve Langasek writes:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:27:11AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote:
> > I conclude, this is the wrong image. Can someone confirm, please?
>
> It's the right image. The beta2 images for i386 were prepared well
> before the images for powerp
I sent this earlier, but is somehow does not show up in the archive ...
Hi all,
I find this:
looking at
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/
Index of /cdimage/testing/netinst/i386
...
beta2/ 15-Jan-2004 00:41 -
This looks good.
Index of /cdimage/test
Hi folks,
I had a look at the German translation as well.
I booted in expert mode just to see more screens, I went into menus I would
normally not use. I did not find a lot of real bugs (missing translations).
And I use these tags for questionable stuff.
Overall: The translators have done
Hi all,
I checked out d-i from alioth ok, and e.g.
fakeroot make TYPE=cdrom cd-image
works fine. however,
root# make TYPE=cdrom demo
fails with this message:
# Set up modules.dep, ensure there is at least one standard dir (kernel
# in this case), so depmod will use its prune list for
Hi Harri,
seeing the messages about (some) failed modprobes are the price
for "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium". At this point they can be ignored
--- I suppose you do not have hw for aiv7xxx, and ide-disk is
already loaded by ide-probe (lsmod and console 3 or 4 show this).
Maybe this stuff should get l
Hi folks,
I keep thinking about the boot loader point in d-i. There were
several points in previous discussions (references see below)
with different points of view. I would like to collect this here
along with my thougts.
Currently ``Making the System Bootable'' is available as
a. "Install l
Hi Steve,
I have successfully installed a xfs based system. Details see
below. I was very pleased with the installer image! Thanks!
Cheers,
Erich
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/
sarge-i386-xfs-netinst.i
Hi Guiseppe,
> The last part of debootstrap.log says that there were errors while processing
> libgnutls, exim4-daemon-light, mailx, at, exim4
was it this one?
libgnutls7 depends on libopencdk8; however:
Package libopencdk8 is not installed.
I had this error on the i386-image from 2003-12-31
Hi all,
I noticed that after choosing
"Load Installer Components"
"cdrom-retriever"
the selection list has the last? character of the description strings
chopped off. Is it me lacking sight? Can someone confirm?
Erich
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Joey Hess writes:
> Erich Waelde wrote:
> > I have not had any problems, and the little thingies are
> > all reported already.
>
> Would you mind listing them anyway in breif, so I can make sure?
Sure.
I keep booting
linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
because without i
Hi,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Had earlier used the older woody installer to load up debian on this
> machine and then thought that I'd try out the new installer just to see
> how it goes. Everything went fine until I got to base software install
> and then there was a failure installing awk
Hello,
>LABEL Sarge
> KERNEL vmlinuz.sarge.i386
> APPEND load initrd=netboot-initrd.sarge.i386.gz devfs=nomount \
> ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 video=aty128fb
>
Try "devfs=/dev,dall"
That should help.
Erich
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Hi all,
what a difference todays image makes!
Everything worked really smooth this time :-)
I have not had any problems, and the little thingies are
all reported already.
Cheers,
Erich
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
image: people.d.o/~manty/...
Hi all,
New year, new images, new luck, new exciting features:
used image from ~manty:
sarge-i386-netinst-20031231.iso (2003-12-31 17:00)
2c806ec1e53ac891b431ab0a6a84bfab
Everything works fine until "Installation of Basesystem"
installation returned Error 127
tail /target/var/log/debootst
27;ll send in a separate report.
Cheers, and happy new year!
Erich
Joey Hess writes:
> Erich Waelde wrote:
> > Debian-installer-version:
> >30-Dec-2003 11:11h netinst.iso 2nd build from
> >http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/
> >
Hello all,
I just pressed "send" and "reload" and there was a new netinst-image!
Well, then just try this also.
Debian-installer-version:
30-Dec-2003 11:11h netinst.iso 2nd build from
http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/
just to be sure:
Hello Harri,
aptitude > options > dependency handling:
unselect: "install suggested packages automatically" and
unselect: "install recommended packages automatically"
First thing I do :-) and the world looks nicer for me.
Erich
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Hello all,
I did a simple installation (2 partitions / + /boot, no LVM, no
raid) on my crash box. This is what I found.
The bad news:
Using mantys netinst CD (2003-12-30) with "net" boot method
still fails on the already reported di-utils-devicefiles.
The good news:
Using "expert", i.e.
Hi Robbie,
I would recommend to get KNOPPIX available at
http://www.knoppix.org -> Download
burn that to CD and try booting it.
Knoppix lives out of RAM and won't touch your system unless you
tell it to. So you have a chance to see, whether this one runs or
not.
The symptoms you describe lo
Hi folks,
using several boot images like
- netinst.iso (24.12.2003)
from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/
- boot floppies (27.12.2003)
from http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/
- TYPE=netboot cd_image
from cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/d-i
bootin
Hello folks,
the new installer is a truely amazing piece of software, Thanks!
I tried a fairly new image but failed, see below.
Cheers,
Erich
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Debian-installer-version:
24-Dec-2003 netinst.iso from
Hello,
> It booted OK using the standard boot method, detected the
> hardware, did a successful DHCP lookup (checked this by going to
> the shell and typing ifconfig and it had been given an IP
> address). It loaded cfdisk - I was trying to install to a spare
> ext2 partition I had so I didn't to
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