Bug#273482: Installation report

[Thue Janus Kristensen <thuejk@gmail.com>]

Package: installation-reports


Just a note: I tried installing rc1 using the kernel 2.6 hard disk
image. In the manual it says that the lilo configuration should be
(http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s01.html#boot-initrd):

image=/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz
      label=newinstall
      initrd=/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz
      root=/dev/ram
      append="devfs=mount,dall ramdisk_size=17000

But to make it work I had to change it to

image=/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz
      label=newinstall
      initrd=/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz
      root=/dev/ram0
      append="devfs=mount,dall ramdisk=17000

ie "/dev/ram"->"/dev/ram0" and "ramdisk_size"->"ramdisk". Both changes needed.

Also, it would be nice if there were a hard disk image with network
drivers. In any case the manual should state that you need the iso on
the drive and can't download from the network using this method. This
should be detailed in the
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s06.html section
(which for some reason also contains text for macs).

Install aborted because I did not have a hard disk partition for the iso image.

-Thue