Joshua Wise wrote: > Debian-installer-version: 2004/07/01 0100EDT - netboot images - "current" Define "current" with an URL please. > When I went to detect the hard drives using the netboot stuff, the modules for > IDE were not there. This does not seem like a sane default to me. > Additionally, even after it attempted to download more modules, it seemingly > could not find them on the server. My resolution was to manually gunzip the > monolithic initrd as well as the netboot initrd, and copy in some filesystems > and IDE drivers. Everyone *else* who's reported this was using the beta 4 netboot images or something like that and had a kernel mismatch with the ide-modules udeb in the archive. > When I went to install the base system, I ran out of room on the compactflash. > This is understandable - after all, it is only 128MB. I'm not quite certain > why we are installing exim or other things like it by default, however. Exim > vs. Postfix vs. Sendmail vs. Qmail vs. whatever will be a decision made > later. Likewise with perl - I will likely not need perl on this system. > > Also, it would be preferable for d-i to rm dpkgs immediately after installing > them, also to save space. > > Perhaps I'm just failing to look in the general case, though, instead of just > my EPIA's case. Insight? I believe that 128 mb installs should be possible on systems that install from CD or have sufficient memory. #246007 -- see shy jo
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