debian (sarge rc1) installer and colinux (snapshot 20040710)
cobd0 alias="hda"-->empty 1500 meg image
cobd1 --> initrd from boot.img (decompressed)
ram 64 megs (allocated to colinux host machine has 480)
tap adaptor with windows bridgeing
<bootparams>root=/dev/cobd1 init=/sbin/debian-installer-boot</bootparams>
debian installer started fine though some non english chars in the language
selection list were screwed as was some formatting of that list (probablly
due to the colinux console not knowing utf-8 or something)
it failed to find my dhcp server but i gave it an ip and my network details
i pointed it at my local apt-cacher (note to debian installer team putting
enter manually in a part of the list that isn't initially visible is bad
design) and it started downloading installer components normally
it didn't seem to recognise my hda alias at the partitioning step (i've yet
to see if that alias works at all) and so i had to go on without making any
partitions
this was where i got stuck there was no way i could see to set the target
root filesystem directly to cobd0 and the installer would not let me move on
i then started again with the alias set to hda1 instead of hda and got stuck
in the partitioning step again
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