netboot installations on i386
Hi,
I did lots of successfull netboot installations on last weekend
and the weekend before while setting up a netboot environment.
Some were not successfull, but the glitches were temporary.
Today, I successfully installed testing and unstable from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/
on this system:
Cyrix-686 (166 MHz) on Intel HX chipset, 96MB
Tekram DC-390F SCSI controller (Symbios ,
1GB SCSI Harddisk, 500MB IDE Harddisk, no CD-ROM,
Intel EEPro100 w. PXE boot rom
I only used the SCSI disk (fully automatic partitioning),
and everything went fine.
On the third try, I partitioned manually, setting up
90 MB ext2 for /boot and 900 MB xfs for / on the SCSI disk
(done that before successfully, but with swap also on SCSI,
and different vmlinuz and initrd) and swap on the IDE disk.
Installing unstable failed when trying to install PCMCIA
(this system got no PCMCIA).
This is the tail of /var/log/messages;
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Get:2 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/main kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386 2.4.25-1 [6410B]
Fetched 276kB in 0s (554kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386.
(Reading database ... 8524 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386 (from .../kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386_2.4.25-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386.
Unpacking kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386 (from .../kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386_2.4.25-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386 (2.4.25-1) ...
depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/char/specialix.o: Bad symbol index: 00000245 >= 00000079
depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/char/specialix.o: Bad symbol index: 00000245 >= 00000079
dpkg: error processing kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386:
kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386 depends on kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386; however:
Package kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386
kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4-386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I really wonder what this means...
Cheers
Herbert
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