Greetings, Friend of mine tried installing with woody boot-floppies. It appears I kind of mis-judged his attitude, otherwise I'd definately would have told him to go with potato boot-floppies... Having not done a woody boot-floppy install myself yet, the info I pass on might not be too clear. Let me know if I must try to explain something more... He's coming from RedHat... was very disappointed to hear of this driver disk issue... (he claims you can do anything with RH installer, with just 2 disks... yea, right...) So I pointed him to the idepci "flavour", as kernel-config pointed out that his network card driver is built into the kernel. (Meaning he needs no driver disk then, AFAICT) After the install asked him whether he wants woody or sid, it "died" trying to mount proc. (brings him back to the sid/woody screen) So he tried umounting /proc, had to first kill a "tail -f /proc/kmsg" process. This was an attempt to let the installation script mount it itself... in the end he just commented out the "mount proc" in the script. (after commenting on how he's never had problems with RH installer (including pre-release installers), and that debian must just copy RH's installer or something... at this point I start considering just sending him back to RH... ;) Next, he says it tried to run ldconfig, which didn't exist. So he simply commented that out too. From what I understood, he got debootstrap running and downloading packages. At some point it ran (I quote) "ar -p | zcat | tar -xv some file", then it was "segfaulting and dying"... At this point, he decided to try potato boot floppies. Again we went for the idepci flavour, to avoid driver disks... he says he got a kernel oops after inserting the root disk... After heated conversation and pointless ramblings, the "compact" flavour (potato) worked for him. (Followed by him again saying Debian should just copy RH's installer... hrmph.) I would appreciate being CC'd any replies. I'm not subscribed to this list. Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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