Ok, so using the floppies I just managed to build to install a new system. The floppies use Catalan directly, no LANG_CHOOSER. First error seems to be in recode. It's not translating capitalized characters like "Ó" to ibmpc, so they look weird in the help pages. When you start dbootstrap, the display is a mess. No window frames, no accents, etc (they sometimes get displayed as ?, in some other places they just nuke the rest of the sentence with it). It looks like the locale settings are incorrect. These is ext3 floppies, so I started the install... everything was ok till I partitioned, mounted and went install the network. First, it gave me a choice between eth0 and eth1, when I only have an ethernet card, and dmesg only shows eth1, so I don't know where eth0 came from, and why it's using eth1 and not eth0. The rescue/drivers.tgz download started, and when rescue's download is done, it freezed, not fetching drivers.tgz... there weren't any weird logs in the consoles, so I hit ^C, and restarted the thing. It went ok, and I came into modconf. The first driver I tried to install was 8139too, and the kernel barfed, I guess because the module was already installed. After that, I keep getting kernel errors that flood the screen: eth1: RTL8139 Interrupt line is blocked, status ffff. eth1: PCI Buss error 2800004. Restarting the install, skipping modconf entirely. On the next try, I can't get the base system. I use the default address, http.us.debian.org/debian, and it errors out with "malformed address". The network works correctly. Giving up for now. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || jordi@pusa.informat.uv.es || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in || jordi@sindominio.net || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || jordi@debian.org || http://debian.org http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E
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