Peder Chr. Nørgaard wrote: > P1) D-i asks for "Start PC Card services?" three times during the > process - one would be more reasonable. The three times are during > "Detect and mount CD-ROM", "Detect Network Hardware" and "Detect > Hardware", respectively. This is a known problem, we've run out of time to fix it, although a fix is known. > P2) The four LAN cards have a different naming scheme > than under my old (very much updated, but currently > 2.6.8 based) debian. Old scheme was > eth0 - Realtek PCI card A > eth1 - Realtek PCI card B > eth2 - Cisco Aironet (mounted on PCI board) > eth3 - the on-board connection > New scheme is > eth0 - the on-board connection > eth1 - Realtek PCI card A > eth2 - Realtek PCI card B > eth3 - Cisco Aironet (mounted on PCI board) > - the new naming scheme is *also* there when I > boot the installed disk! > > Of course I had to tell d-i to choose "eth1" as "primary > network interface" - that's where the cable to the world > sits. This is probably due to the hardware detection that is added to the boot process loading modules in a different order than on your old system. As long as d-i and the installed system match, we're satisfied. > P3) The partitioning of the disk goes just fine under debian-installer > - but "parted" (running under the installed system) is not satisfied: > > "Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that > another > partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't > have > the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause > (fixable) problems with some boot loaders." > > How is it that d-i produces a partition table that parted thinks is incorrect? The 2.6 kernel reports disk geometry in a way that confused parted. This should have been fixed in parted version 1.6.11-6. We use that version in the installer, it's possible you installed an older version though. -- see shy jo
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