Bug#239133: using 3-28-04 iso image sarge-m68k-businesscard.iso & 3-29-04 mac hd-media images
I'm sorry that I missed your original install report.
I thought I allowed for multiple cdroms, but the code says otherwise.
Would you mind running the following commands on your dual cdrom box and
letting me know what you get?
dmesg | grep -i cdrom | grep -i ide | cut -d: -f 1
dmesg | grep -i detected | grep -i scsi | grep -i cd-rom | cut -d' ' -f 4
As for partitioning, the the newer, slower, and slicker
partitioner, called partman, is available from the "expert" menu as
Partition a disk. I'd be interested in your critique of partman too.
The libgcrypt7 failure was a transient base package change and should be
fixed.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:11:49AM -0500, Hank wrote:
> Seems like you're making progress.
>
> ext3 filesystem option shows up when formatting. Installation of
> packages from the mounted iso image
> is successful until it says it can't find a a valid kernel image during
> the base installation. At which point the install
> reverts back to the screen with about 20 options: partition a disk,
> install the base system, etc. At that point I had
> about 90 MB installed on the /target/ partition.
That's interesting. I haven't tried hd-media with the businesscard,
since the businesscard cd doesn't have a single deb on it -- just d-i
udebs. Did you download base from a mirror?
> I rebooted the system at that point. I tried using my own kernel and
> modules by copying them from another
> working system on a different scsi dri ve. I managed to boot into a
> prompt after changing the /etc/fstab file to
> mount the root and swap partitions: the fstab file only had two comment
> lines in with no entries to mount any file
> systems.
base-installer didn't get to finish, so it shouldn't be a surprise that
things weren't all setup right. :-\
> But I could proceed no further: I was asked for a password which the
> system had not set up. I tried entering a
> blank password for root, but that didn't work.
That's base-config weirdness. Usually base-config starts and among other
things, lets you set the root password. I suppose another thing that
didn't get setup correctly.
> Apparently, the business card iso is lacking kernel images for the mac
> kernel?
Yes, by design. I wonder if you hit a transient mirror problem?
Thanks,
Stephen
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