The notes I kept while trying to install should be appended. David
Trying d-i for the first time using vmlinuz and netboot-initrd.gz taken from http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/daily today (5/17/03). Install machine: headless i386 (dell PV715N) I booted using pxegrub and controlled it via minicom from unstable because I already had it set up. The grub commands I used were: > root (nd) > kernel /vmlinuz initrd=netboot-initrd.gz console=ttyS0,115200 ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw > initrd /netboot-initrd.gz > boot (I got most of the boot options from the syslinux.cfg on the net-1440.img) Sequence (problems I encountered have bangs) *0 pressing backspace prints ^H, pressing delete prints ^[[3~ thankfully pressing ctrl-u still kills the whole line 0 Debconf Priority (medium) 1 Language (US English) 2 Net detect (not automatically, e100) *3 Configure the network via DHCP (no dhcp client found) 4 Configure network manually 5 Choosing a mirror (ftp.us.debian.org via http installing sarge) 6 Loading installer modules via net-retriever (no extra modules) -- numbers change -- *4 Detect a keyboard and select layout kbd-chooser.c:389 (read_keymap_files): Failed to open /usr/share/console/lists: No such file or directory (keymap files probabl) *8 Detect hardware (full version) I don't have a floppy, so modprobe -v floppy fails, but then it asks if I want to load eepro100 from a floppy. I said no. Loaded correctly: ide-mod ide-probe-mod ide-disk ide-cd isofs 9 Partition a harddrive p1 20MiB /boot, p2 1024MiB swap, p3 111GiB / *12 Configure and Mount harddrives Problems: I setup /boot, and then when I went to set up part2 as swap, it correctly didn't ask me for a mount point, but for some reason used the previous mount point of /boot. This caused it to fail because I had two things trying to be /boot. I eventually tricked it into using /usr as the mount point for the swap so that I could exit. When I exited there was an error because mkswap wasn't found. *14 make swapspace (OLD) still no mkswap note running `mount` from the shell does show them mounted as /target and /target/boot 16 Install base system *17 Unable to install the selected kernel An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the target system. . Kernel package: ''. . This is probably a fatal error. So there we go, almost everything went well until kernel-installer died. David
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