Bug#231682: installation report: Failure

[Jukka Neppius <jkn@softavenue.fi>]

Package: installation-reports
Version: 20040102

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/20040102
Date: 07 Feb 2004
Method: Boot from floppies

Boot floppies worked well.  I could not continue installation,
because I have only ppp (modem) connection to the net.  I have all
necessary files in the hard-disk (12 GB sarge & woody i386 binaries).
But installation program has only ftp & http methods for file access.
"Get packages from mounted file system" would be good enough. I guess
it would be possible to mount ATA disk from 2. virtual console.

I could buy an ADSL line.  In 2-3 months it would cost me a price of a
new 160 GB disk.  If distance to center of the town were 1 km greater
I would be out of a ADSL range and fast Internet would cost me more
than one 160 GB disk/month. 


First boot floppy asked for root floppy.  INSTALLATION-HOWTO tells
that it is floppy-image.  It would be better if name were
rootfloppy-image.  (Why not boot-floppy.image & root-floppy.image?)

There seems to be access_drivers-image.img, access-image.img,
access-initrd.gz.  Perhaps something useful.  INSTALLATION-HOWTO does
not help.

I wish there were INDEX file (fill blanks :)

access_drivers-image.img
access-image.img
access-initrd.gz
bootfloppy-image.img            1. boot disk for booting from floppy
bootfloppy-initrd.gz            
cd_drivers-image.img
cdrom-image.img
cdrom-initrd.gz
floppy-image.img                2. boot disk for booting from floppy
floppy-initrd.gz
hd-media-image.img.gz
hd-media-initrd.gz
MD5SUMS                         use for checking download errors
netboot-initrd.gz
net_drivers-image.img
speakup-image.img
speakup-initrd.gz
vmlinuz                         Linux kernel for ???




- Jukka