Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:42:40AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > | OK, so I got a copy of debian-installer CVS and tried to create the > | netboot initrd. After installing some needed packages I was struck by > | libdiscover1 bein

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > | According to Bastian, the "new" (circa early November) libc broke it. > | BLKGETSIZE64 is defined in that file using the _IOR macro. Apparently > | that macro has changed so the third argument is expected to

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:18:15PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: | OK, so I got a copy of debian-installer CVS and tried to create the | netboot initrd. After installing some needed packages I was struck by | libdiscover1 being installed (1.5-1.4.2) but not installable :-) Is it | libdiscover1-udeb t

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: | According to Bastian, the "new" (circa early November) libc broke it. | BLKGETSIZE64 is defined in that file using the _IOR macro. Apparently | that macro has changed so the third argument is expected to be a type, | not just a size, and

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Cameron Patrick wrote: > This seems to be because busybox wget doesn't write any progress output > to stderr for debootstrap to read; debootstrap interprets this as wget > failing to download, so it retries again and again. Hmm, I think that explains many previous reports of strange package downlo

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:36:56AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system > > > wit

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:26:24AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > | I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how > | you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to > | make a custom init

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:03:05PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > | > Where can I find these daily builds? I found the d-i ports page, but > | > all the links under i386 were broken - the ones on gluck gave 404 Not > | > Found errors

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:03:05PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: | About the only odd thing that I noticed was that it tried to download | each package four times This seems to be because busybox wget doesn't write any progress output to stderr for debootstrap to read; debootstrap interprets this

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-12 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: | > Where can I find these daily builds? I found the d-i ports page, but | > all the links under i386 were broken - the ones on gluck gave 404 Not | > Found errors, and the ones on people.d.o have the infinite redirect loop | > problem. |

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-11 Thread Joey Hess
Cameron Patrick wrote: > Okay. I was actually kind of glad to see that it wasn't using the frame > buffer, it runs incredibly slowly on that machine (reminiscent of 9600 > baud serial connections)... The dailys will also let you disable framebuffer by passing debian-installer/framebuffer=false to

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-10 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:45:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: | Cameron Patrick wrote: | > - Throughout the installer, the line-drawing characters looked a bit | > messed up. (using "^" for horizontal lines, ">" for corner bits) | | Lack of proper frame buffer, bterm, and fonts stuff on netboot. T

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-10 Thread Cameron Patrick
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: | I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how | you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to | make a custom initrd, and the relevant section of dhcpd.conf). I used the "net.gz" initrd fr

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-10 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system > > with no CDROM drive, using Etherboot. > > I have tried to do that but was unsu

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-10 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > I've just attempted a debian-installer installation on an i386 system > with no CDROM drive, using Etherboot. I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how you got it working (what files you used to

Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

2003-12-10 Thread Joey Hess
Cameron Patrick wrote: > - Throughout the installer, the line-drawing characters looked a bit > messed up. (using "^" for horizontal lines, ">" for corner bits) Lack of proper frame buffer, bterm, and fonts stuff on netboot. This has been fixed in the dailys. Although the underlying issue of wh