Bug#233540: Installer report and trashing of existing install
* John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> [2004-02-18 03:02]:
> First problem: no support for my network card. The latest 2.6.x-rc series
> has a forcedeth module which is needed for my integrated Ethernet. This module
> is also available as a patch for 2.4.x, but this machine is, in general,
> Much Happier with 2.6.
You can now boot with linux26 and you'll get 2.6.
> Despite the fact that the CD-based installer has no need for a network, it
> became a huge pest. I woul dhave to manually select each step and every time
> it would want me to manually pick a network driver. There is really no point
This should be better now.
> I took advantage of the reiserfs formatting option, as I run that on all my
> systems. On reboot, it complained of missing fsck.reiserfs -- and indeed,
> reiserfsprogs was not installed. That's a big problem for someone using
This has been fixed.
> Another complaint: zero support for LVM in the installer. I anticipated this,
There's LVM support now, but / on LVM is not supported yet. The rest
should work, though.
Can you try a new image from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and share your
impressions with us?
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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