On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:45:51PM +0100, Gary Gale wrote: > > I've downloaded the beta 4 Debian-Installer image and I'll give it a try > > at home tonight ... actually I meant to do this over the weekend but the > > weather was so good that beer and BBQ's beckoned too strongly; please try > > to forgive me :-) > snip ... > > I'll try the Installer CD tonight and if that fails fall back onto the > > Woody boot floppies as suggested. > Hi Helge, > now I don't want to appear overly pessimistic but this is not looking > particularly promising. Here's where I've got to after this evening's > boot attempts. > I downloaded the Beta 4 of the Debian Installer for Alpha (both the ISO > and the two boot floppies just to be on the safe side) and the Woody > floppy images. Where did you find d-i based boot floppies for Alpha? (Hint: these don't exist, there has never been a floppy target for alpha in debian-installer) > Attempt 1 - Boot the Installer CD from the AlphaBIOS > No joy; the AlphaBIOS refused to budge on this; insisting that the boot > configuration was invalid (this was not only during the definition of the > boot configuration but also when attempting the boot itself). > On closer examination it appears that the reason behind the boot failure > is that the milo directory on the CD is empty - no linload.exe, no milo > ... ? The sarge installer does not support MILO. No one with a vested interest in seeing it work has stepped forward to maintain AlphaBIOS support for sarge. > Attempt 2 - Boot the Installer Floppies from the AlphaBIOS > Again - no joy; the AlphaBIOS whinged about an invalid configuration when > defining the boot config but I'm getting used to that. This time, when I > selected my new floppy based configuration nothing happened. No activity > on the floppy drive, no access light flashing, nothing. > Attempt 3 - Boot the Installer Floppies from the SRM > You've probably guessed but again, no joy. This time, the transcript > looked something like this ... > >>> boot dva0 -flags 0 > (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0) > block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block Really, really have no idea what these are. I'm sorry if I missed this in an earlier message; is there a reason you didn't try to boot the CD from SRM? Is your CD not recognized as a boot device with your particular configuration? If so, your best bet for a direct sarge install (given the lack of MILO and boot floppy support) might be to use the daily netboot images available from <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/>. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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