Re: latest boot floppies
Please, reports should go to the b-f list.
Dave Restall - System Administrator <dave@restall.net> writes:
> I then chose the options and mounted disks etc. The disks were formatted
> last night with the previous floppies, I _SHOULD_ have re done the whole
> thing from scratch today but forgot - Sorry :-(
[...]
> After downloading kernel & driver modules, the next choice presented is
> "Configure Device Driver Modules". Selecting this gives a "Problem"
> window that says :-
>
> 'No modules were found in /target/lib/modules/2.2.20-compact
> that could be configured. Please install the kerenel modules
> first by running the "Configure Device Driver Modules" step'
>
> Erm, that's what I am doing :-)
Probably because you had installed already kernel and modules from a
different flavor or kernel? Or else you suffered from a logic
reversal problem in the code I fixed last night which meant that
/lib/modules symlink wasn't being made correctly when existing root is
mounted.
It would be nice if we could detect whether a root has been mounted
but the kernel/modules there are from a different flavor. That might
be worth a wishlist bug if anyone cares to file it.
> As I expected that there probably were no modules that I required anyway,
> I simply skipped this stage and went to "Install base system". I was
> prompted to use the "Woody" installation and chose it. Then the screen
> defaulting to us.debian.org etc. I'd like to use a local mirror but am
> unsure whether it is the right thing while testing, e.g. it may not be
> as up to date as the official site.
>
> After installing the base system,
You managed to install base?!
> the top window disappeared and the
> "Choose the language" window was left.
Known bug, #124117.
> I again chose English and then
> was given the "Release Notes" page with a continue button. On pressing
> return, the installation main menu re-appeared with the default option as
> "Make System Bootable" so I did.
>
> This then blacked the screen, then went back to blue screen and the
> "Choose The Language" menu.
Ditto.
> Again, I selected English, got the "Release Notes" menu and a "continue"
> button which brought me back to the installation main menu with the
> "Make System Bootable" option as the top option. I didn't want to do
> this again so I went to the "Alternate: Reboot the System" option.
>
> The system didn't reboot :-( It came up with "No Operating System found"
> which is a BIOS message.
>
> I then rebooted the system from the rescue floppy and the root disk,
> selected English, turned on swap, remounted the drives and tried making
> the system bootable again. This time, I was prompted for the drive to
> write the boot on so I chose SDA (the default option). Then I rebooted
> the box and got da da da da da da daaaaaa "Congratulations you have
> succesfully installed Debian".
That's interesting that you got the lilo configuration to work by
trying over and over again!
> In the end, I got there but it's probably not the easiest/most
> stratightforward O/S installation and would probably but a neophyte off,
> but it is close to being there. I didn't encounter anything that I
> thought was bad, basically what I found were cosmetic errors, HOWEVER I
> have been installing Debian since its inception and don't mind fiddling,
> somebody new to Linux/Debian may have a bad experience.
Well, we really need to get 124117 and flashing screen issues.
No new issues in this report, which is a good thing I guess... :)
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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