Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems
On Mon 01 Feb 2021 at 06:46:40 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I have just installed Debian 10.7 to my Lenovo T510 Thinkpad having
> copied debian-10.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a flash drive [the machine is
> intentionally isolated from the internet].
So you have a 10.7 amd64 DVD available.
On Wed 03 Mar 2021 at 09:22:45 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've one fine machine running i386 flavor of Debian 9.13 .
> I've wish to install 64 bit flavor on a second machine.
> debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso was successfully downloaded & saved.
> It was copied to a USB flash drive and installation attempted.
> Only did minimal install as I could not connect to internet.
The netinst image is for people with access to the internet.
> Connection to internet is via a T-Mobile Alcatel Linkzone Hotspot.
> The WiFi connectivity programmatically disabled (i.e. it is
> effectively just a modem).
> It is detected by lsusb as:
> Bus 002 Device 008: ID 1bbb:0195 T & A Mobile Phones
> No non-free driver is needed as none are on the working system.
>
> I attempted to configure the ethernet device […]
Which ethernet device? You don't have one in your universe.
Now I realise why you wrote ethernet in quotation marks—you're
pretending it's an ethernet connection.
> Also I didn't find anything in
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ telling details of how
> to set up a "ethernet" device.
Why would there be? If you have a real Ethernet device, bought or
supplied by your real ISP, you just plug a Cat5 cable into it.
. You have a 10.7 amd64 DVD on a stick,
. You have a USB port on the laptop,
. Install it;
. It will work: "install from image of DVD1 works."
. Upgrade to 10.8 like everyone else does.
. Then ascertain from *your* own *running* system what it requires
for connectivity *before* you try to install something from scratch.
It's called "bootstrapping": at each stage you need a little bit
of a system that *works* to get you to the next stage.
For someone who doesn't use WiFi, that gizmo looks like a dud.
3/4/5G devices with ethernet do appear to exist, but the ones I've
seen are expensive. They throw in things like a firewall and so on.
But they're not a mass market, so it's hardly surprising they cost.
Cheers,
David.
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