Bug#232116: success, but a partitioning problem (and some Dutch translation remarks)
On Tue, 25 May 2004 17:54:41 +0100
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Bastiaan Van Eeckhoudt <bastiaanve@gmx.net> [2004-02-11 00:29]:
> > At some point during hardware detection, my screen stayed blue
> > without a dialog for quite a long time, I would have thought it was
> > hanging if the CD drive wasn't making a lot of noise. I was using an
> > old, flaky drive, maybe it was having trouble reading some files.
>
> Can you please try a current image from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and see if this is
> still the case? Is there no progress bar on the screen at all?
I can't try the install on the same machine, since it's in use.
I'm running the may 26 build on my laptop, and that still has some short
blank screens between the cd drive detection and loading of installation
modules. maybe it's just due to slowness of the cpu (this laptop is a
pentium 233) or cd drive that it takes a while?
>
> > When I selected my drive for partitioning, I got a message about no
> > partition table being present (this was a brand new, unused disk),
> > and if I wanted to start with an empty one. Selecting yes or no
> > didn't make a difference, I got a red screen telling me partitioning
> > failed. I switched to console, started up fdisk, made a new empty
> > DOS partition table, and quit fdisk. After this cfdisk ran without a
> > problem.
>
> I suppose you won't be able to reproduce this, or do you have a spare
> disk on which you can remove all partitions?
I removed the partition table on the laptop, and now the disk
partitioner deals with missing partition tables without a problem.
>
> > Then my system rebooted.
> > I got a message: GRUB loading stage 1.5
> > Then 15-20 seconds nothing. I was ready to hit the reset button and
> > grab a rescue disk, and I got another message:
> > GRUB loading, please wait...
> > Again, 15-20 seconds nothing, but I had some more patience this
> > time.
>
> Can you see if it still takes so long? This might be a bug in GRUB
> (rather than in the installer). Can you try the new image and let me
> know if this is still there?
no problems in this build on the laptop
>
> > When selecting the timezone, Europe still gave me Australian cities.
> > I though this was fixed at the time of my previous report a month
> > ago?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's fixed now.
yes this is fixed
>
> > One thing I noticed after the install is that I wasn't asked if I
> > wanted stable, testing or unstable. Do I need to select expert to
> > get this question?
>
> Why would it ask after install? If you use a netboot image (without
> any debs), it will ask during the installation; but normally it will
> just take the .debs from your CD and then default to the distribution
> those .debs are from.
I meant that I only noticed this after the install was done, and I
seemed to remember being asked the question during an earlier install.
Probably a netboot vs. businesscard image thing.
The installation on my laptop went flawlessly now, nice work.
I have some more comments on the translation. I'll send those to the
dutch list.
Bastiaan
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com
>
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Bastiaan Van Eeckhoudt
bastiaan[at]vaneeckhoudt[dot]net
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