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Re: Installation report: FAILED on i386



Herbert Xu wrote:
>Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>> 2 Serial ATA drives, 1 IDE drive, e1000 Ethernet card.
>> 
>> * It hangs on "loading module ide-detect" if RAID is disabled in the BIOS.
>> * If RAID is enabled in the BIOS, it gets past that, but it never detects
>> either Serial ATA drive.
>> * DHCP configuration is slow and flaky but eventually works.
>> * Proceeding with the other drive, debootstrap fails -- wget fails
>> to download the Release file for sarge with a "Hostname not found" failure.
>> This pretty much scotches any install attempt, no workaround.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Since you have a workaround for the hang, please get the system
>installed so that you can test the kernel-image packages.  Once
>you're there, please test 2.4.24-1-386 as well 2.4.18 to see if
>either one works.

Perhaps you didn't notice that I'm completely stuck on another matter (the 
wget failure).  Happy to try once I can work around that.



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