Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Joey Hess wrote: John wrote: Worse, it's downloading modules for two kernels. Since it booted a 2.4 kernel, it can't possibly use 2.6 modules. The installer should not do that. Send us your /var/log/syslog from inside the installer, or /var/log/debian-installer/syslog from the installed system. N

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Herbert Kaminski wrote: correction to my mail just sent a few minutes ago: the files I download are vmlinuz and initrd.gz, not netboot.initrd.gz I'm using the netboot images. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Herbert Kaminski wrote: On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:34:56 +0800, John wrote: Even if bandwidth didn't cause problems, the fact that it downloads so much junk means I can't install in 64 Mbytes. This must be a problem of your special setup. Using the files 'netboot.initrd.gz' and 'vmlinuz' from As I

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
John wrote: > Worse, it's downloading modules for two kernels. Since it booted a 2.4 > kernel, it can't possibly use 2.6 modules. The installer should not do that. Send us your /var/log/syslog from inside the installer, or /var/log/debian-installer/syslog from the installed system. > More, my bo

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
correction to my mail just sent a few minutes ago: the files I download are vmlinuz and initrd.gz, not netboot.initrd.gz sorry ;-) Herbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:34:56 +0800, John wrote: >Even if bandwidth didn't cause problems, the fact that it downloads so >much junk means I can't install in 64 Mbytes. This must be a problem of your special setup. Using the files 'netboot.initrd.gz' and 'vmlinuz' from http://people.debian.org/~

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Christian Perrier wrote: Well, as mentioned above the general design choices have been made for having d-i as versatile as possible. This includes the choice of downloading a lot of stuff, sure. A part of this design choice is motivated by the fact that people with low bandwidth will probably use

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm attempting a network install of Sarge. I PXE-booted off my LAN. Since my local mirror is incomplete I'm installing through my modem. I've discovered that d-i is downloading lots of stuff it won't need - pcmcia stuff, firewire stuff etc

Re: d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm attempting a network install of Sarge. I PXE-booted off my LAN. > > Since my local mirror is incomplete I'm installing through my modem. > > I've discovered that d-i is downloading lots of stuff it won't need - > pcmcia stuff, firewire stuff etc. Well, be

d-i network install downloads too much

2004-07-07 Thread John
I'm attempting a network install of Sarge. I PXE-booted off my LAN. Since my local mirror is incomplete I'm installing through my modem. I've discovered that d-i is downloading lots of stuff it won't need - pcmcia stuff, firewire stuff etc. Worse, it's downloading modules for two kernels. Since i