Install bugs with Sarge netinst dated 2/26/02.
I recently installed installed Sarge using the 2/26/03 version of the
netinst CD. Unfortunately, I had some difficulties with the install. I'm
posting this message here in hopes that someone who cares will see these
problems and attempt to correct them in a future version of the installer.
The first major problem I ran into (other than realizing that the only
install option that the netinst CD really supported was not configured as
the default) was with the long lists. Several times I was presented with
lists of items to choose from that ran off the top of my screen. I saw no
way of scrolling back to see the entire list. Several times, the option I
needed was not on the screen and I had to hope that it was the default or
assume it was not needed.
The next major problem I had was with loading the kernel (option 15).When
I tried to install the kernel, the screen would scroll quickly and come
back to the main menu (with step 15 still chosen as the default). The
messages at the top of the screen were:
kernel-installer's postinst exited with status 25600
installer[2374]: Setting main menu question priority to critical
When I used Ctrl-S to pause the printout, I could see the following
messages:
The following extra packages will be installed:
cramfsprogs dash zlib1g
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cramfsprogs dash initrd-tools zlib1g
as well as other messages from apt. When it finally got to downloading the
packages, I got several messages like the following:
Err http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu sarge/main dash 0.4.1
Could not resolve 'linux.csua.berkeley.edu'
Since I installed this system from behind a firewall, so I had to go
through a proxy. The installer had already successfully gone through the
proxy at least twice (to load the installer modules and to install the
base system) and asked me at least twice for the name of the proxy to use.
When I saw that last error, I assumed it was a problem with the proxy not
being configured (I had a similar problem with a Potato install I did a
year or two ago), so I put a wrapper around apt-install to set the
http_proxy environment variable and solved my problem.
The third problem I had was with installing Grub. Once Grub was installed,
I was asked to remove any CDs or floppies and reboot in order to finish
the installation. When the system tried to reboot, Grub was unable to load
anything. After booting with the recovery disk, I discovered that Grub had
been installed to boot off of the wrong partition. Grub was installed to
boot off of (hd0,0), but I had installed Sarge onto (hd0,1). Once I had
corrected the problem with sed (nano wouldn't load because it couldn't
find libslang.so.1-UTF8), I was able to successfully reboot and complete
the installation.
The good news is that I was finally able (with much effort) to overcome
all these problems and now have converted yet another PC to use Debian.
I hope this information will be of some use to someone. If you have any
further questions about my difficulties, please let me know.
If you reply, please copy me as well. I'm not subscribed to this list and
I don't want to miss any messages (but I will check the list archives).
Best regards,
Brian
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