Bug#323151: Package: intallation-reports
On Monday 15 August 2005 05:52, Brian K McDonald wrote:
> Put in boot, root, picked: eng; us; said no to drivers; am-eng
> keyboard
You are supposed to load the net-drivers floppy at the point where you
said "no to drivers".
> built-in e100 NIC was not detected (didn't work with stable sarge
> images either). (I did not grok "boot install24")
> Then it "finds" a FireWire interface. said no to that
> the net-drivers image errors on "Loading ipv6-modules-2.4.27-2-386-di
> failed for unknown reasons"
That means either a bad disk (which is fairly common with floppies) or a
real error. Output on VT3 and VT4 may offer information on what goes
wrong (switch there using alt-F3 alt-F4).
> going back causes a bad screen flicker (black screen with white
> cursor-block in lower left). That is the end of the experiment.
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