tcg wrote: > New to the list and to Debian as well. After reading an article about the > installer I wanted to give it a try and had some problems. I used the daily > build netinst from 11/13/03. > > One problem I had was that after choosing the task-based package selection > method and finding it a little too broad I could not return to choose a > different method. Fixed in base-config 2.00. > Second, I was asked some questions about where to instll LILO and then > presented with a screen that allowed me to install GRUB, which was my > preference, so why question about LILO? Sounds like someone dropped to low priority and got confused.. How could we make it less confusing, I wonder? > Third, GRUB was setup wrong and I had to edit it in order to boot. Maybe it > was because / and /boot were to separate partitions; / was on hda7 and /boot > was on hda1, GRUB setup the following "root (hd0,6)", when it needed to be > "root (hd0,0)" (it booted after the change). I have also not had a lot of luck booting grub, unfortunatly. > Fourth, after booting into the minimal system ad configured the apt sources I > kept getting errors when trying to read from the CD - "ide-scsi: hdb: > unsupported commend in request queue (0)". Maybe the burn was bad, or > possibly I should try the daily build instead. I have seen this too, and will be tracking it down in the next couple of days, I expect. Something is screwy with discover, ide-scsi, apt. > Do not reply to the email address. > Please use the contact page below for any desired direct replies. > Apologies for the inconvenience. > > realcomputerguy dot com slash contact dot html I never do that kind of thing, even when I am online. -- see shy jo
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