Bug#252551: Multiple SCSI bugs, etc, worked around, succeeded
clone 252551 -1
reassign -1 grub-installer
retitle -1 Should allow creating a boot floppy
severity -1 wishlist
tags 252551 moreinfo
thanks
Quoting Jack Carroll (dischord@myrealbox.com):
> Package: installation-reports
>
> Debian-installer-version: Beta-4 20040528 floppy images
Sounds confusing to me. Was it beta4 or was it a daily build from
20040528, which is more or less the version we now call "tc1" ?
If this was beta4, re-testing those machines with tc1 would be
great. I think the ISA SCSI card will not be detected as well but the
PCI one should be. If it is not, posting the output of "lspci -v" will
help.
> The partitioner didn't recognize any pre-existing Linux file systems
> created by previous Debian distros (Libranet 2.7, 2.8.1). It only
> recognized filesystems it had created itself, including filesystems it
> created on previous runs.
Which filesystems were these? Can you reproduce this with tc1 version
of di?
> 2. DHCP was erratic. Sometimes it would get an IP address from the DHCP
> server, sometimes manual configuration with a fixed address was necessary.
> This has not been observed with installed kernels.
Lot of changes there between beta4 and tc1.....
> 4. Can't create a custom boot floppy. GRUB could install to /dev/sda OK
> on either machine, but trying either (fd0) or /dev/fd0 as a target failed
> with a message about it not being a hard disk. Of course it's not a hard
> disk, but GRUB is supposed to be installable on a floppy. Didn't try
> running the grub command directly from the command line.
This is obviously a wishlist against grub-installer-->having it offer
the possibility of creating a boot floppy. No idea whether this is
possible or not.
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