Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
| > 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.
Well, I've just done that... I needed to apply Geert's patch (posted to
the list a couple of days ago) to work around the libdiscover1 problem,
but the resulting netboot image seemed to install just fine. The
keyboard selection seemed to work (modulo defaulting to Dvorak), it
prompted me to select a mirror /before/ it downloaded anything, it
didn't try to look for a CDROM drive and I ended up with an apparently
working Debian system at the end of the process! Well done to everyone
involved in d-i :-)
About the only odd thing that I noticed was that it tried to download
each package four times; an excerpt from my Apache logs:
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:46 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.9.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 200 423790 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:46 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.9.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:46 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.9.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:46 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.9.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:49 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.51.4-18_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 200 28684 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:49 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.51.4-18_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:49 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.51.4-18_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:50 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/n/newt/whiptail_0.51.4-18_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:52 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 200 61042 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:53 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:53 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
10.0.1.7 - - [12/Dec/2003:15:01:53 +0800] "GET /debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.1-1_i386.deb HTTP/1.1" 416 0 "-" "Wget"
tty4 on the machine running d-i showed a heap of "Retrying failed
download of (URL)" messages - three for each package. The "extra
packages" stage (which looked like it used a real apt) seemed to work
okay. Running debootstrap on a working machine behaved as expected,
only downloading each file once.
On the reboot after the install, I got a "fsck.reiserfs: not found"
while booting. Perhaps reiserfsprogs should be installed if a reiserfs
partition is mounted during the installation. I was also not prompted
to select a hostname either by d-i or base-config. The machine ended up
being named "localhost". I needed to edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts
by hand to fix this.
| 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.
That was the case with the build I just tried, so I guess it must have
been fixed since then - although choose-mirror /was/ on the initrd I
first tried, which is odd.
Cameron.
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