Bug#235540: Debian-installer
* Jack Carroll <dischord@myrealbox.com> [2004-02-29 18:37]:
> 1. The fatal error occurred at the "Configure and mount" screen. Only the
> partitions on /dev/sda were displayed and offered for assignment of mount
> points. I was trying to install on /dev/sdb. No further progress was
> possible.
Can you try new images from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if this has
been fixed (I think so). I'm off-line and cannot check the location,
but new floppy images should be at
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/debian-installer
> 2. There were difficulties in loading the correct kernel module for the
> AHA1542 SCSI host adapter. None of the screens offering modules to be
> loaded ever mentioned specific SCSI board drivers at all. (Mostly, they
Can you check if the module for this card is still not being loaded?
> 4. The Install HOWTO doesn't specify the exact syntax for the dd command to
> write the boot, root, and driver floppies. I guessed, based on the old
> install manual. I seem to have gotten away with it. But it would be better
> to explain what block size and count to use, whether to use the conv=sync
> parameter, and _why_.
Maybe you could write something up for out installation manual?
> 6. The "Configure and lay out" screen only offered to create ext2 file
> systems, not ext3 or Reiser. Supposedly this was fixed, but I didn't see
> that.
This should definitely be there now.
> 7. In my opinion, attempting to partition and lay out target drives before
> establishing access to the installation media (CDs, Debian mirror, or local
> hard disk, etc.) isn't the ideal sequence of steps. I realize it's late in
> the project to bring this up, but I think some problems could be avoided by
> re-examining the order things are done in.
Hmm, I'm not sure how it works on a floppy install, but on a net
install it definitely loads the modules from the net before doing the
partitioning.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
Reply to: