The notes I kept while trying to install should be appended. David
Trying d-i for the first time using vmlinuz and netboot-initrd.gz
taken from http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/daily today
(5/17/03).
Install machine: headless i386 (dell PV715N)
I booted using pxegrub and controlled it via minicom from unstable
because I already had it set up. The grub commands I used were:
> root (nd)
> kernel /vmlinuz initrd=netboot-initrd.gz console=ttyS0,115200
ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw
> initrd /netboot-initrd.gz
> boot
(I got most of the boot options from the syslinux.cfg on the
net-1440.img)
Sequence (problems I encountered have bangs)
*0 pressing backspace prints ^H, pressing delete prints ^[[3~
thankfully pressing ctrl-u still kills the whole line
0 Debconf Priority (medium)
1 Language (US English)
2 Net detect (not automatically, e100)
*3 Configure the network via DHCP (no dhcp client found)
4 Configure network manually
5 Choosing a mirror (ftp.us.debian.org via http installing sarge)
6 Loading installer modules via net-retriever (no extra modules)
-- numbers change --
*4 Detect a keyboard and select layout
kbd-chooser.c:389 (read_keymap_files): Failed to open
/usr/share/console/lists: No such file or directory (keymap files
probabl)
*8 Detect hardware (full version)
I don't have a floppy, so modprobe -v floppy fails, but then it
asks if I want to load eepro100 from a floppy. I said no.
Loaded correctly: ide-mod ide-probe-mod ide-disk ide-cd isofs
9 Partition a harddrive p1 20MiB /boot, p2 1024MiB swap, p3 111GiB /
*12 Configure and Mount harddrives
Problems: I setup /boot, and then when I went to set up part2 as
swap, it correctly didn't ask me for a mount point, but for some
reason used the previous mount point of /boot. This caused it to
fail because I had two things trying to be /boot. I eventually
tricked it into using /usr as the mount point for the swap so that
I could exit. When I exited there was an error because mkswap
wasn't found.
*14 make swapspace (OLD)
still no mkswap
note running `mount` from the shell does show them mounted as /target
and /target/boot
16 Install base system
*17 Unable to install the selected kernel
An error was returned while trying to install the kernel into the target
system. . Kernel package: ''. . This is probably a fatal error.
So there we go, almost everything went well until kernel-installer died.
David
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