Current nstallation fails at di

[Erich.Waelde@t-online.de (Erich Waelde)]

Hi folks,

using several boot images like
- netinst.iso (24.12.2003)
  from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ 
- boot floppies (27.12.2003)
  from http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/
- TYPE=netboot cd_image
  from cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/d-i

booting linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY

and several package repositories like
- ftp2.de.debian.org
- ftp.debian.org

I always end up at the same problem when downloading the installer
components:


Error message on installer screen (vc/0)

  Loading di-utils-device-files failed for unknown reasons. Aborting.


last message on vc/2 (/var/log/messages)

  insmod floppy

  which looks ok, since this occurs at an earlier point


last messages on vc/3 (/var/log/syslog)

  user.debug anna[791]: DEVUG install scsi-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di,\
    dependency from scsi-extra-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di

4 seconds gap here!

  user.info anna[791]: corrupted status flag!!
  user.info anna[791]: (process:1090):  tar:
  user.info anna[791]: (process:1090):  Couldnt remove old file
  user.info anna[791]: (process:1090): : Operation not permitted


nothing else in /var/log/*


Continuing at this point crashes something (installer ?) in that it tries to 
  insmod: init_module: vesafb: No such device or address
which repeats every few seconds and renders the system unusuable
That is most probably a consequence of failing to load the devices package
properly.

Interestingly, going back yields the same result.

Hope this helps.

Erich



hardware:

CPU AMD K6/200 MHz
Memory 320 MB
booting from IDE-CDROM

Output of lspci:
  00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
  00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
  00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
  00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11)
  00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
  00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
  00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
  00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02)
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)