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Re: experience trying d-i on 17MAY2003



On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:02:41PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> sön 2003-05-18 klockan 16.59 skrev David Whitmarsh:
> > *0   pressing backspace prints ^H, pressing delete prints ^[[3~
> >      thankfully pressing ctrl-u still kills the whole line
> 
> Isn't this more a problem of configuring minicom?
Perhaps. I wouldn't have included it except that I didn't have the
problem when I later tried boot-floppies under the same conditions. I
also *think* I didn't have the problem when using the shell (via the d-i
menu) after installing busybox-cvs, but my memory could be wrong. I'll
check later
> 
> > *3   Configure the network via DHCP (no dhcp client found)
> 
> Oh, damn, I forgot to commit that addition.
> 
> > *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
> 
> Yes, this "load modules" thing has to be rewritten, it's an ancient
> leftover.
> 
> > *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
> 
> Haha, now that's a stupid bug, stupid me. :) Please file a bug on
> partconf about this.
> 
Done, #193807
> 
> /Martin
> -- 
> Martin Sjögren
>   sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se
>   GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html
>   let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)

Thanks,
David

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