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Bug#245141: Bugs in various documents, bugs with partitioning, bugs with LVM, bugs with mkinitrd.



"Dr. Andreas Krüger" wrote:
> So, while the CD image still downloads (internet connection to 
> people.debian.org was slow yesterday), I boot the computer I want to 
> install, with a Knoppix-CD. I prepare partitions /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 
> the size I want.  I do mke2fs /dev/hda1, install grub on boot sector 
> /dev/hda, and grub support files on /dev/hda1.
> 
> The installation howto tells me I need hd-media/initrd.gz and 
> hd-media/vmlinuz. Where do I find these?  I count this as a bug of the 
>  installation howto (as above): It should give URLs for those files.

From the howto:

The other kinds of images, including floppy images are in the Debian
archive, in the main/installer-<arch> directories. For example:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/

> No, says the kernel. That ramdisk is 8731k, not 8192 as the installation 
> howto
> would have me believe. So I count this as a bug in the installation howto: 
> The ramdisk size given is not correct.

Fixed.
 
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see shy jo

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