Re: Debian Installer on Sheevaplug failing

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:22:54AM -0800, Mark Johnson wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I am following Martin Michlmayr's excellent instructions for installing
> Squeeze on the Sheevaplug. I am using TFTP and trying to install on to an SD
> card.
> 
> I have tried 4 times using two different 4GB SD cards.
> 
> Every time, the installer fails "deep" into the the installation process. It
> usually fails in the "Extracting" phase but one time it made it all the way
> to the "Configuring Package Manager" phase before failing.
> 

I was having the same problem: I ended up putting the files for 
u-boot.bin on a spare USB stick and updating u-boot first _then_ 
clearing the USB stick, putting uInitrd and uImage on that and 
proceeding from there.

All worked fine :)

> Any tips?
> 

All best,

AndyC