[Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>]

A report that was forwarded to me; I am updating the ports-status
page with details on submitting reports the offical way.

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• To: mckinstry@debian.org
• Subject: Alpha Debian Netinst
• From: Andrew Forgue <forgue@ltu.edu>
• Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:32:49 -0500
• Message-id: <000c01c3a986$0c8a7c20$0e0112ac@adtest.ltu.edu>

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status

 

It says on that page to report any installations to you.

 

Well, I'm trying the "sarge-alpha-netinst.iso" from testing (both daily and non-daily) on an alpha PWS 500au with 128mb ram using aboot/SRM and so far am unsuccessful.  It dies while trying to mount /dev/rd/0.  If I tell it to use /dev/ram0 as a root, it says it can't find init.  If I pass init=/linurc to the kernel, it still says no init found.  So I'm slowly hopefully getting there.

 

I don't have a full dump of the boot process, otherwise I'd dump it to you.

 

Any Ideas?  Otherwise I guess it doesn't work... *shrug*

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