Bug#222429: marked as done (installation-reports: problems with floppy images (boots only partially))
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Subject: installation-reports: problems with floppy images (boots only
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/20031109/images/bootfloppy-image.img
09-Nov-2003 22:06
uname -a:
Date: 2003-11-28 23:30
Method: tried to use floppy-image. As gluck and cvs.debian.org seem to be
not yet available again, i could only reach floppy-images and an
debian-installer-howto posted on http://lwn.net/Articles/49527/ at Mon, 15
Sep 2003 14:53:34 +0200
Machine: PC from 1997
Processor: 6x86 Pentium 166 MHz
Memory: 32 MB
Root Device: one IDE harddisk installed
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O/E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Booting with bootfloppy-image.img seemed to be ok, though I couldn't see
anything about the harddisk. I was asked to insert the second floppy then.
The article mentioned above said to use net_drivers-image.img as second
floppy, but the system obviously did not recognize the disk after inserting
it in the drive. Instead it activated the drive approximatly every five
seconds and printed an additional dot on the screen. The md5sums of the
downloaded images were OK, and I used
$ dd if=net_drivers-image.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
to create the floppies (as said in the woody installation instructions).
I have to correct myself. The article says to use floppy-image.img for the
first disk. But wether I use the image from 20031109 or 20031113 my PC says:
This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any
key to try again ...
After turning power off and on, I booted again with bootfloppy-image.img
from 2003-11-13. This I time the floppy didn't seem to hang as before. And
there was a second line, which reads: "Press Enter when ready, or type a
command:"
After inserting net_drivers-image.img from 2003-11-13 it says:
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 02:00
This message irritates me once more, as file says:
$ file net_drivers-image.img
net_drivers-image.img: Linux rev 0.0 ext2 filesystem data
How can one expect to find a valid FAT on a ext2 floppy?
I couldn't get past this point.
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From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#222429: installation-reports: problems with floppy images (boots only partially)
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Holger Krause wrote:
> Booting with bootfloppy-image.img seemed to be ok, though I couldn't see
> anything about the harddisk. I was asked to insert the second floppy then.
> The article mentioned above said to use net_drivers-image.img as second
> floppy, but the system obviously did not recognize the disk after inserti=
ng
> it in the drive.
The howto currently reads:=20
The boot floppy is the one with bootfloppy-image on it. This floppy, when
booted, will prompt you to insert a second floppy -- use the one with
floppy-image on it.
Using a daily snapshot, if you insert the wrong floppy, it will tell you
what floppy you inserted, and which it is looking for, and try again.
So I'm closing this bug report.
--=20
see shy jo
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