Cameron Patrick wrote: > 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)... The dailys will also let you disable framebuffer by passing debian-installer/framebuffer=false to the kernel. > 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. Until that gets fixed, you are stuck with building them yourself. > | 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. As far as I know, choose-mirror is part of the netboot initrd. It could be that the menu order comes up wrong in this case, though I don't see that with the floppy image, which has the same components. > | > - 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? Obviously yes, but that is harder to code than it is to say. -- see shy jo
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