Andreas Rottmann wrote:
Hank <compdata@portsys.net> writes:Hi! I was trying out the Sarge-i386-businesscard.iso (40MB iso image). http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso What's the gluck stand for? Good Luck? I burned the iso image and booted into the install process with this CD, but did not succeed installing anything. A text console showed up with with about 5 steps for which I chose the defaults. I only got so far as installing modules from the CD. About 35 modules showed up. After a prompt I entered the module number and it showed up as being selected in the list. But then I was baffled about what to do next. The last option offered (#5) to go to a shell which I took and was told that I could use the nano editor and a few shell commands.I think the editor will probably be nano-tiny.
I thought the same. But that doesn't work either
I think the Boot Image is Broken. The link for the business card came off Debian's website. Maybe I should file a bug against the website? They were suggesting using the businesscard.iso instead of downloading a complete iso off the web to save bandwidth.However, once in the shell I noticed nano didn't work. It was not in any of the paths. I am guessing the installation left out the step of setting up partitions on the hard drve. And what's this about udeb? Some new package utility? I read through the install documents and found nothing anywhere near describing how to use this CD.You obviously have grabbed a CD with the new installer (debian-install, d-i for short). It's not yet in a state for general consumption. If you want to install sarge, it'd be best to grab a woody (netinst) CD and dist-upgrade to sarge (or unstable). Regards, Andy
Kind of misses the point. If you can't use the iso and have to reload another iso, it's just a waste of bandwidth anyway.
Thanks for the suggestion on using Woody. I used it and did an upgrade with it.
It appears that there are too many problems with the d-i procedure: i.e. mounting and formatting partitions, Screens scrolling off the screen to see all the modules, the nano editor not working, etc.
I believe it would have worked fine had I had there been a mounted partition. From the looks of messages, it appeared that the first deb that was going to be "udebbed" only got to 1% because it had no mounted root file system to write to: i.e. a mounted partition on the hard drive..
Hank