Re: potato hard disk install bug
I usually do hard-disk and ftp installs with no special problems with
the media method.
Regards,
/Karl
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From: David West <dhw@thedance.net>
Subject: potato hard disk install bug
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:10:06 -0500
> Something like this has been mentioned previously by someone else,
> but I haven't seen an official bug number for it, or any subsequent
> mentions, so I'll report it here in the hope that it doesn't get
> overlooked. I'm not sure whether the error messages I'm getting
> refer directly to a bug, or whether they are a result of an
> earlier phase failing.
>
> I'm using the Oct 14 materials in http://auric.debian/org/~aph/bf/
> in particular the 1.2MB boot floppies and base2_2.tgz.
>
> After problems getting the install script to find the kernel
> and drivers (I have them, but they apparently are not found,
> even after I create some symlinks which satisfy what the install
> script says it wants), I copied the debian kernel to my bootable
> hard disk's Slackware partition, rebooted into Slackware, set
> up lilo.conf to boot the debian kernel mounting the new debian
> partition as root, reran lilo, and rebooted, choosing the debian
> installation when lilo ran.
>
> All went well until after the message
> Starting internet superserver indetd
> Then it said
> Template does not contain a template: line at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm
> line 66 <TEMPLATE_IN> chunk 1371
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> At this point I gave up.
>
>
> Remarks and questions:
>
> Given that I have base2_2.tgz and a compatible set of kernel+drivers,
> a working Slackware installation on another partition, and a working knowledge
> of lilo, the only reason I started by booting from the floppies is
> a suspicion that just untarring base2_2.tgz into an empty partition
> is not enough to create a "correct" minimal install, i.e. that
> dbootstrap may need to be run to do something that I didn't know
> needed to be done. Can anyone give definitive info on this point?
>
> The debian install doc says, under hard disk install, says the
> boot floppies are not actually necessary, and that "any other boot method"
> can be used. I think the doc needs to be more explicit on this point, and
> also on the issue of exactly how much directory structure is necessary
> to get the installable files recognized.
>
> I really wanted to install the idepci kernel instead of the larger default
> kernel, but the floppy install didn't seem to offer this as an option.
> (For the manual install attempt, I used the default kernel just to be on the
> safe side.)
>
> I would guess that all of the above indicates that hard-disk installs are so
> infrequent that the relevant parts of the install scripts are much less well
> debugged than is the case for, e.g., CD installs (I'm only doing this because
> I don't have a CD drive), just as 1.2M floppy installs are so infrequent that
> no-one (apparently) tried one before potato was released.
>
>
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