Bug#248213: Install report for AlphaServer 1000A 5/300
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Sam, can you give the image at
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ a go and tell us
how well that works. We're currently preparing for a new release
(rc1) and it would be good to have a successful report on alpha.
(vorlon is away from his Alpha because he's at DebConf).
I used this:
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/20040526/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso
It didn't go well. Unfortunately, the problems were a little different
this time, although the bulk of the install went well.
I set up my partitions like so:
#1 1024k empty, not mounted
#2 63mb ext2, mounted on /boot
#3 17g ext3, mounted on /
Save partitions, all done here. Or not, because I was presented with a
vicious lie of an error saying that aboot wouldn't support my /boot
because it was ext3. Does this have something to do with not mounting
partition 1, and the script that checks this for aboot fails because of
this? I don't know, because I didn't try actually having partition 1
mounted.
The odd part comes when I give up and change partition #3 to be ext2 as
well, and then the installer proceeded to actually format all the
partitions, and go ahead with installing base, which worked up until it
balked about USB in /var/log/messages, and halted the installation of
base.. I have a better log, but it's saved on the alpha, unfortunately,
and I don't have a very good way of extracting this data tonight, but I
will tomorrow evening when I will be able to test some more.
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