Bug#691922: installation failure with 2TB disk
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB stick
Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/
installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
22:54 10-10-12 34044754
f5ba7c69f0c53e6f245443140c9b7a7b boot.img.gz
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apas02.html
#howto-getting-images-usb
says it is a 256 MB image, so my 1 GB stick (Kingston) should be enough.
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
fdisk /dev/sdc
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000 MB, 1000341504 bytes
gzip -l boot.img.gz
compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
34044754 1002438656 96.6% boot.img
Could you make boot image slightly smaller? I believe this does
not cause any problems though.
apas02.html could also have a link to 'Debian netinst CD image'.
Then I plugged 2 TB disk. Now installation hangs at: "Searching drives
for an installer ISO image /dev/sda4"
I made partitions to my 2 TB disk when testing it: 3 primary
partitions, 21.5 GB each. Rest of the disk for logical partitions.
I did not make any file systems.
So /dev/sda4 is almost 2 TB extended partition. It should not be
searched for anything.
Without 2 TB disk it seems to work.
After reboot I selected expert mode and then selected /dev/sdb for ISO
image search. Now it worked!
I'll make another report later for rest of the installation.
- jkn
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