Re: Silicon Image SATA?

["Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>]

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Is there no ide driver for sata-sil? People wanted the ide driver for
> > some sata because of the 15 partition limit for scsi and smart.
> >
> > It looks like we are getting a new kernel and new kernel udebs
> > tonight. Have a look if that changes anything.
>
> This new image did not work. expert26 and linux26 were missing,
> so I tried expert. But then "Load installer components from CD"
> failed, even though I could see the CD in /cdrom. The error message
> was
>
>     Failed to copy file from CDROM. Retry?
>
> There was no hint _which_ file was missing.

Maybe this is related:

Using the monolithic image I could configure the hardware,
but during base system installation I got an error message
saying that the adduser package could not be found on
alioth.

2 questions:

	Why is adduser _so_ important at installation
	time of the basic system? It is surely not
	essential to get the system running.

	Why was there no option to [continue], ignoring
	the missing file ?


Regards

Harri