Problems with network install of rescue.bin
Using boot-floppies 3.0.17-2001-11-18 on i386 to install testing.
When trying to download rescue.bin over the network, dbootstrap used the
path:
http://my.mirror/debian/images-1.44/rescue.bin
That is, just appending images-1.44/rescue.bin to the archive URL. Earlier
in the process, of course, I had selected 'testing', and debootstrap
successfully downloaded and installed the base .debs from the correct
location.
To work around the problem, in the URL dialog, I replaced:
http://my.mirror/debian (the default value)
with
http://my.mirror/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current
which allowed rescue.bin and drivers.tgz to be downloaded correctly.
After it was downloaded, I got an error:
Mount Failed
Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. You may have inserted
the wrong floppy. Please try again.
<Continue>
and then:
Select Floppy Disk Drive
Please select the floppy drive you will use to read the
Rescue Floppy.
/dev/fd0 : first floppy drive
/dev/fd1 : second floppy drive
<Cancel>
Of course, I don't want either of these; I want to use the image I just
downloaded. Are these known problems?
--
- mdz
Reply to: