[xandy@tux.org: Re: Debian Install Aborted. What now?]
A 2.2.7 install report from a guy in my LUG. I think the PCMCIA issue
is known, what about the others?
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>From bma Wed Feb 16 01:56:36 2000
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 01:54:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Xandy Johnson <xandy@tux.org>
To: Brian Almeida <bma@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Debian Install Aborted. What now?
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Well, I got a chance to try out 2.2.7-2000-02-13 today (technically
yesterday). Good news and bad news...
First, the good news: I was able to successfully load the ne driver during
the installation, and to load the base system over the network (both
faster and easier than swapping out floppies while multitasking on
something else).
Now the bad news:
1) The ne driver did not load when I rebooted the system. Again, I used
insmod, ifconfig, and route to keep going.
2) My attempt to get packages failed earlier than before. I don't have
the info here, but I'll try to get it to you tomorrow (I know I
haven't been good about this). I was at the point where you choose
either simple (as groups of packages) or advanced (as individual
packages) as a method for choosing packages. I chose simple, and as
it continued, it failed before offering a package selection. I
haven't touched it beyond that, so hopefully I can get you more
detailed info tomorrow (technically today), but I noticed two things:
a) It seemed to have trouble removing the pcmcia package (a few
warnings about non-empty directories).
b) The main error seemed to be something about Perl not being
configured properly. If I recall correctly, it complained about
Getopt/Long.pm.
I'm sorry I've been so flaky about getting you good info on the trouble
I've been having. I'll try to get better about that. Is there by any
chance a place that the installer logs what it's doing, so I could mail
you a diagnostic file?
Yours,
Xandy
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