Help with disk detection please

2011-04-18 Thread Kash
heya, I have been trying to install squeeze, but the installer doesn't see the disks, this is happening on multiple machines. All it sees is the 2GB flash card we have on the machines as /dev/sda and that's it. When I take out the flash card and reboot then it sees all the disks. However if I boot

disks missing during installer

2011-04-13 Thread Kash
Hello, I am using preseed to install squeeze, although I am not sure if that matter. However, the installer only sees the flash card (being one of the disks), but I don't see any other disks. There are 4 disks in this system, in addition to this flash card. What is weird is that when I remove the f

disk order in installer

2011-04-13 Thread Kash
Hello, >From what I read, the installer names disks based on which driver was loaded first. I.e. I have a 2GB flash card which is not on the boot order list in BIOS and yet it always shows up as sda in the installer (I am using preseed if it makes a difference). Is there no way to, say, use edd in

Re: preseed error when contacting security.debian.org

2011-04-12 Thread Kash
It seems that error was related to apt-cacher-ng, we are in the middle of rolling out ipv6 and the machine apt-cacher-ng is running is was trying to use ipv6 when contacting security.debian.org. Disabling ipv6 on that machine fixed this issue. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kash wrote: >

Re: preseed error when contacting security.debian.org

2011-04-12 Thread Kash
I see bunch of "500 Peer communication, code 101", here's a screenshot http://imgpaste.com/i/ufjna.jpg On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Kash (melbo...@gmail.com): > >> What could be the problem and how can I fix this error? > >

preseed error when contacting security.debian.org

2011-04-12 Thread Kash
Hi, I am installing debian using preseed and I get this error duriing apt configuration stage â⤠[!!] Configure the package manager âââ â â ââ Cannot access repository

Bug#257883: netcfg: Please offer to configure all network interfaces

2011-04-11 Thread Kash
As long as we are fixing this, can we also fix the netcfg/interface=auto that's suppose to pick the correct interface when pxe booting? We have machines with multiple interfaces and interface=auto picks eth0 and the link is on eth4, so it complains that it couldn't get a dhcp address and quits the

Re: E: Unimplemented function

2011-04-11 Thread Kash
any ideas on this? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:40 AM, melbogia wrote: > Hello, > I have a machine with multiple network interfaces and the installer > picks eth0 by default so I am trying to edit initrd and add a script > in /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/ to select the correct interface > based on