I keep running into this bug, so I'm going to note it here so folks have
some hope of finding it and understanding what's going on.
I just did a d-i run on a pristine (took it out of the box ~30 minutes
ago) Dell GX280, 3GB memory, dual SATA disks.
everything seems to roll merrily along - the i
> Why? You're never going to make China happy by calling it Taiwan, or
> Taiwan happy by calling it Taiwan, Province of China. So use the same
> code zh_TW and let people call the display name whatever the hell they
> want to call it.
how about there just not be a display name for this region A
> the software, I discovered the kernel will not access the display (x
> server). I set the default display at gdm, and gnome will not load. The
> kernel loads and I am limited to command line ability and I must get my
> machine working. I have had a lot of difficulty installing the system
> with
> > - both the de4x5 and the tulip drivers fail to work with many
> > DECChip-based ethernet cards in the 2.4.2x series alpha kernels;
> > bug #228654.
> Both of these sound like reasonable candidates for errata if they're not
> fixed, and not release blockers. Do you want them in the errata
> I have PC with only SATA drives and I would like to install my favourite
> distro (debian of course;-) but the installer (the latest I tried was
> the floppies package from the 21st April) does not recognise the drives.
>
> It automatically loads kernel 2.4.25-1 with does not contain support fo
> You apparently also missed the part of the original message saying I
> had lots of machines to test on. You also seemed to miss me saying I'd
> like to work with the ONE helpful person that responded.
Granted.
> And yet again, you have to send back yet another unhelpful,
> condescending messa
x27; someone to
do something, you could try bribing them with a hardware donation or some
financial support. It Can Work.
--elijah
> Mark Demma
> iWin, Inc.
> Senior Network and Systems Administrator
>
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> On 14 Apr 2004
> Or doesn't work, as the case may be. I'm just making a request,
> something that I really think should have been included ages ago if
> Debian wants to be seriously considered beyond hobbyists. No need to
> get into a snit and make personal attacks for some one making a request
> for a feature
> whatever), devfs, and in the back of most people's minds, standard /dev
> naming. That's bad enough, but grub-installer adds to this grub's own
> naming. So I was suprised to notice that grub-install accepts /dev/
> filenames. Is there some reason to not use them by default?
whoa! that would h
> BTW, the SATA drive you mentioned previously are only used with the G5
> powermac, right ? None of the earlier models have Serial ATA support ?
right. SATA was new on the g5 towers. the g5 xServe machines are also
now SATA - not that anyone i know personally has gotten their hands on
one, of
> > Apparently beta3 has better SATA support. Can you try?
>
> This may have something to do with device mapping in the BIOS -- I may
> not be feeding the right information to lilo and/or grub. Or it may
> have something to do with the fact that my system doesn't appear to have
> a 'compatibilit
just reporting in with a success on some odd (but nice) hardware here...
- Dell Poweredge 2650 (dual 2.4ghz xeon)
- 4.5GB of ram
- onboard PERC (adaptec) RAID controller plus
additional adaptec u160 raid controller for external raid disks
- broadcom gigabit ethernet onboard
the one thi
> I have a Dell Optiplex Computer, no floppy drive and the hard disk
> is a ST3120026AS ATA disk.
> downloaded only the first CD from 3 different sites. BTW the date of the
> file is Jan 2003, Is that correct?
that installer won't work on your hardware. get one from late february or
built in ma
> > You mean 5 1/2 inch floppies? Unlikely. It is doable, but it's a
> > matter of someone wanting to do it.
>
> Of course 5 1/2", silly me.
they're 5.25, not 5.5 inch floppies, by the way :)
elijah
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> > - cdebconf should not use translated strings on dumb terminals.
>
> Can you tell why? I know nothing about dumb terminals, googled a bit
> but did not find anything interesting. This is not d-i related, but
> #232296 discusses whether English text could contain UTF-8 encoded
> non-ASCII chara
> If you do not mind, could you tell me what kernel options make
> debian-installer suddenly recognize ICH5's SATA disk?
2.4.24 or better, i think it requires. i dunno, i didn't build the
installer in question. some of the earlier (around feb.17 dailies) didn't
seem to work, but one from feb. 2
>Congratulation and thank you to d-i team! I have succeeded in
> installing debain sarge direct to ICH5R attached SATA disk in enhanced
> mode using netinst CD for the first time.
great - this makes two of us who've managed it :) :) and its good to know
that it works on a newer install imag
> > partman-ext3_9_i386.udeb: package says priority is standard, override
> > says optional.
>
> Partman needs his sidekick Partman-Ext3 to help him format big hard
> drive partitions. Or something like that; it needs to be standard cause
> our users want ext3 support, curse them!
yeah, damn us a
> I'd like to install on a new box that has only an SATA drive (VIA
> chipset). I understand that the VIA chipset is supported in the 2.6
> kernel but it isn't in the 2.4 kernel.
i did an install onto an SATA-only machine this past week. one of the
images of the "beta" debian installer worked (b
> > just filing a success report - the 'current' (2/24?) sarge bootcdimage
> > managed to install on my SATA-disks-only dell gx270. i'd been
> > fighting it for most of a week. i chose to try it one more time after
> > seeing new stuff roll into the archive last night - the 2/17 images
> > had n
just filing a success report - the 'current' (2/24?) sarge bootcdimage
managed to install on my SATA-disks-only dell gx270. i'd been fighting it
for most of a week. i chose to try it one more time after seeing new
stuff roll into the archive last night - the 2/17 images had not worked.
one quir
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