Bug#248973: sarge netinst hangs on scanning for ISO image
Dear Joey,
soon after I submitted the bug report which had been troubling me for a
day or so, I found out what caused the problem. There were directory
names containing underscores and umlauts (created by WinXP). After
deleting or renaming these directories the installation proceeded very
nicely. I already emailed this information as a follow-up to
submit@bugs.debian.org. Hopefully this problem can be solved so that
other users don't find themself in the same kind of trouble.
Cheers,
Jan
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jan Gläscher wrote:
> > installer started fine from usb-stick and installation proceeded until
> > "Searching drinves for an installer ISO image. All modules were
> > loaded just fine but then the installer says "Scanning
> > /dev/discs/disc0/part3 (in My eBooks/) .." and stop at 30% scanning.
> > It remains there for about 5-10 min and then starts the scanning again
> > until the 30% stage.
>
> Ok, first you need to understand that the reason it's probing your hard
> drive is because this image is also intended for installs with the iso
> on a hard drive. Also, it's hard to tell what is a memory stick and what
> isn't.
>
> On the first pass through a partition, it only looks for the iso in
> top-level directory of the partiton, and the first level of
> subdirectories. So it's strange that it takes a noticable time here. Is
> it possible that the read from disk is hanging? Is there noticible disk
> activity at all during this 10 minute delay?
>
> When it seems to be hung, can you switch to the second virtual console
> for a shell, and run a command like "echo /hd-media /hd-media/*"? Does
> this also hang?
>
>
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Jan Gläscher
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