Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:45:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > - Throughout the installer, the line-drawing characters looked a bit
| > messed up. (using "^" for horizontal lines, ">" for corner bits)
|
| Lack of proper frame buffer, bterm, and fonts stuff on netboot. This has
| been fixed in the dailys.
Okay. I was actually kind of glad to see that it wasn't using the frame
buffer, it runs incredibly slowly on that machine (reminiscent of 9600
baud serial connections)...
Where can I find these daily builds? I found the d-i ports page, but
all the links under i386 were broken - the ones on gluck gave 404 Not
Found errors, and the ones on people.d.o have the infinite redirect loop
problem.
| > - It didn't succeed in loading all the modules it wanted to; the culprit
| > appears to be "ide-cd".
|
| Not really a problem, but in the dailys it is less annoying about this
| sort of error.
You mean you've found a more descriptive error message than "Something
must have gone wrong"? :-)
| > - There was no way to specify where it downloaded the debian installer
| > modules from, or to tell it to use a proxy server.
|
| This is a new problem to me, AFAIK the "Choose a mirror" menu item
| should do that.
For some reason, I got the "choose a mirror" menu /after/ it had
downloaded the installer, so I could choose the mirror it used for
downloading the 'real' .debs, but not for the installer itself.
| > - It kept wanting to find a CD drive; there wasn't one, so it couldn't.
| > Selecting "No" when it asked whether you wanted to configure a CD did
| > nothing. Selecting "Yes" and then "No" when it asked about non-IDE
| > non-SCSI CDs took me back to the menu. Surely a network installation
| > should be able to work properly without a CD?
|
| Yeah, this is annoying for all non-CD installs, though you can work
| around it.
Shouldn't it remember that you don't want to use a CD after you hit No
for the first time?
Cameron.
P.S. Thanks for your detailed reply.
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