Re: debian-installer: fail at kernel install step
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:48:46AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Stephane Enten]
> > I found out why: the destination fstab, located at
> > /target/etc/fstab, is barely empty, there's only the /proc mount.
>
> Sounds like the bug in 40fstab I located and fixed on Thursday. A fix
> is in CVS, but debian-installer-utils need to be uploaded to make it
> available. I'm not sure who is the main developer of that package,
> but expect him to do it when the time is right. :)
I wanted to try your fix but unfortunately, the new build no longer fits
on a 1.4 Mb floppy. That's why the net-1440.img image is no longer
updated in the daily images build at http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/.
The net.log found at
http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/d-i/images/2003-03-09/archive/net.log
shows that issue pretty well.
Here is the last line of the logs, matching the floppy_image target in
build/Makefile:
>install -d dest
>dd if=/dev/zero of=dest/net-1440.img.new bs=1k count=1440
>1440+0 records in
>1440+0 records out
>1474560 bytes transferred in 0.026340 seconds (55981744 bytes/sec)
>mkfs.msdos -i deb00001 -n 'Debian Installer' -C dest/net-1440.img.new 1440
>mkfs.msdos 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
>ln -sf `pwd`/dest/net-1440.img.new /media/home/builder/debian-installer/build/dest/tmp-mnt.img
>mount `pwd`/mnt/
>cp ./tmp/net/vmlinuz `pwd`/mnt//linux
>cp dest/net-initrd.gz `pwd`/mnt//initrd.gz
>cp: writing `/home/builder/debian-installer/build/mnt//initrd.gz': No space left on device
>make: *** [dest/net-1440.img] Error 1
I tried myself with an up to date CVS checkout, and got the same error,
the kernel image plus the initrd won't fit on the floppy.
I plan doing the install using NFS root instead of initrd, but if
someone got a better idea, I'll go for it :-)
Stéphane
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