Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

["shrevie@ntnation.com" <shrevie@ntnation.com>]

If you were blonde, female, and weighed less than 400 lbs I'd kiss you :)

Yes, you're 100% right... that's exactly the problem. If you're 
installing to a hard disk of 100gig or greater, the Beta 4 installer and 
the Testing Candidate 1 installer will fail, giving you no real error 
messages, etc.

I was able to verify this, and with a little disk-juggling, got this 
working.

I didn't see this in the BTS.... have you filed a bug report on it? I'd 
say this was a pretty major problem that while easy to fix, really needs 
to be corrected in TC1.

Once again, Dan, thanks so much for your help!

Moe

Dan Callahan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:34 -0400, shrevie@ntnation.com wrote:
>
> > I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and 
> > Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always 
> > die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting 
> > the installer use the entire disk).
>
>
> How large is your disk? I was running into similar issues, and it turns
> out base-installer at some point runs `df /target/` to determine the
> target disk. If your disk is large enough, the "1k-blocks" column runs
> into the "Filesystem" column, adding all manner of digits to the end of
> the filesystem address.
>
> My email on the issue is under the subject "Installer fails on
> initrd-tools"
>
> -Dan C