Bug#221046: bootfloppy-image, proxy, without CD
Package: installation-reports
Version: beta1 (2003-11-09)
debian-installer
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: bootfloppy-image.img beta1 (timestamp of the
images: 2003-11-09; downloaded today from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/20031109/images/)
Date: 2003-11-16
Method: bootfloppy on a laptop with PCMCIA; PC has a CD drive, but I did not want to use it
Machine: Toshiba 740CDT (about 1998)
Processor: Pentium MMX 166 MHz
Memory: ca. 80MB
Root Device: should become IDE, but I did not reach the stage where this matters
Root Size/partition table: n/a
Output of lspci: n/a
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [ OK ]
Configure network HW: [ OK ]
Config network: [ OK ]
Detect CD: [ E ]
Load installer modules: [ E ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
As soon as the installation routines had network access, they started
downloading lots of data from raff.debian.org. I consider it a bug
that it didn't give me a chance to configure a different server,
especially as I do have a slow internet connection but a proxy server
in the LAN. And I want to repeat the installation within LANs without
Internet access.
After that, the installation complained:
Your installation CD could not be mounted. That probably means that
the CD is not yet inserted. If that's the case, just insert it and
don't perform the manual configuration; the CD mount will be
re-tried. If your CD was already in the drive, there was another
problem: try the manual CD configuration
Perform manual CD configuration? [Yes] [No]
If I say "No", I just get the same screen again.
If I say "Yes", I get pulled into a dialog about CDROM modules and
devices that I'm not interested in. I want the thing to continue
downloading from the net without using the CD.
I find no way to go past this point in the dialog.
Regards,
--
andreas
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