sön 2002-12-08 klockan 04.47 skrev Jeremie Koenig: > Base System Installation Checklist: > > Initial boot worked: [O] > Configure network HW: [O] (but no detection, ne 2000 isa non-pnp) > Config network: [O] (the static method) > Detect CD: [ ] > Load installer modules: [E] > Detect hard drives: [O] > Partition hard drives: [O] > Create file systems: [O] > Mount partitions: [x] well, under torture it failed... :) > Install base system: [E] > Install boot loader: [ ] > Reboot: [E] > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it > > Comments/Problems: many ;) > > After running the installation stuff a dozen times, i finally succeded in > installing a sarge. I had many many problems... > > * Notes before starting > > I already had a sid installed. I saved my apt cache packages and /home in > /dev/hda8, and started installation using grub and files in my /boot > partition. > > * The generic ones : > > - At the retreiver selection step, something needed libdebconf.so.0.3, while > the initrd contained only 1.0. I needed to symlink it to the wanted file > to get things work. Maybe some other problems i had are related. I've just > seen in some list that someone else reported this. Yes, this is a big mistake on our part, we forgot to re-upload net-retriever, so 0.014 is still compiled against libdebconf0.3. 0.015 should hit the mirrors soon, which will fix this. > - I tried ftp one time. The installtion tried to fetch from http:///debian, > which didn't work ;) ftp is on the TODO, that should've been mentioned, sorry about that. > - The first time, I have been quite sadic with d-i when it asked me to mount > paritions. I tried mounting non-root partitions first ;) I mounted /home, > and it didn't protest, I mounted /var/cache/apt (using the "manual" > choice), which gave me an awful error, but mounted the partition. The mounting tool is undergoing a rewrite too :) Perhaps it would make sense not to actually mount the partitions until the user has made all his choices. > * While trying to install sid : We haven't really tested it for sid, I think. At least I haven't. > - The installation failed while "configuring base packages", or something > like that. I rebooted installation and tried using debootstrap directly > (instead of running the base system installation step). Debootstrap tried > to run something like : > chroot /target dpkg -i .../libc6_2.2... .../libc6_2.3... > of course, while configuring libc6 2.2, which had just been installed, > bash didn't find GLIBC_2.3 ;) D'oh! > * Having finally got a sarge installed, rebooting... > > (btw, i needed to umount -a; reboot by hand since choice 11 did't want to do > that until i installed a bootloader, which i didn't want.) Yeah, we need a more flexible way for skipping steps. > - I tried to boot the kernel just installed with grub. It panic'd, could > not mount the root (correctly specified on command line). It seems it had > no ide driver... > > - I booted the new system with an old custom kernel. It was devfs, no luck. > I couldn't get a getty. Needed to reboot single single user, changs > fstab and inittab. Well, the generated /target/etc/fstab doesn't use devfs, so if you try to boot a kernel with devfs, you're going to have problems, yes... > - The generated /etc/network/interfaces was wrong, using dhcp method instead > of static. What do you mean? Had you used dhcp during the install but it wrote config for static? Or the opposite? netcfg is undergoing a rewrite too :) > Hope it wasn't too long and boring you with false problems that were my > fault. Sorry for my poor english, too. Thanks a lot!
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