Hi Matthew, Thanks again for testing. On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:20:41PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > The netboot images on the daily build don't work - we don't ship a > bootloader that can netboot separate images (and, as far as I can tell, > we don't actually ship a bootloader that can netboot at all...). It's > impossible to cross-compile netbooting alpha kernels on a 32-bit system > due to breakage in the objstrip utility, and even on an alpha they > currently don't seem to build (undefined references to printk in some of > the lib files - I think the build system assumes that it can use the > kernel lib.a without all of the kernel, which fails in this case). > Hacking around that I generated a kernel and libc, and could then > netboot this with (remembered, so possibly slightly wrong) This has now been fixed in the daily builds for quite some time. > which then launched the installer. Everything then went fine up to > mirror selection - the.earth.li was offered as a mirror despite not > carrying anything other than i386+source, and so failed. Do you know if this mirror is still showing up in the list? > Once that was rectified, the install continued until partitioning. > Here I was given a confusing message telling me I could > automatically or manually partition a disk, but was only given the > opportunity to manually edit it. Modulo a few bugs in the autopartitioning recipes, this should be fixed. The other problems you mention all appear to be related to the kernel, which should be fixed in short order. Regards, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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