Bug#320660: INSTALL REPORT

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:49, Remko Bolt wrote:
> The only thing that's relevant for the installation, to my humble
> opinion, is that with a 2.6 install, I would expect it to show up
> during the `probe for CD players', since I could mount it without any
> problems with `mount /dev/scd0 /mnt'. I wouldn't dare to blame the fact
> that the kernel freezes on the installer. I'll play with 2.6 and see if
> I can give any helpful feedback to the driver developers.

I've looked a bit further at this and it looks like there are two reasons 
why you could not use the external drive.
- The installer uses devfs and checks for CD drives by checking what is in
  /dev/cdroms. The kernel is responsible for creating symlinks in that
  directory to the "real" device (like /dev/ide/...) for cdrom devices.
  Is a link like that created for your external drive [1].
- If no cdrom drive is located, the installer will offer to load extra
  modules from floppy and/or ask for a device that should be mounted as
  cdrom. I think this does not happen in your case because, looking at
  your report, you _do_ have another CD drive at /dev/hdd; correct?

The syslog from the installation may provide us some information about 
what happened. Could you send the /var/log/installer/syslog (gzipped!).

> I'm pretty glad I have things up and running again, and not looking
> forward to any more downtime :-) sorry.

You would not have to complete the installation to provide additional 
information. As long as you stop before disk partitioning, the existing 
installation will be unaffected. So you would have only minor downtime: 
only the time it takes to boot the installer, do some testing, and 
reboot. In most cases less than 15 minutes.

We can not solve problems or add new functionality if users are unwilling 
to provide additional information or test patches (we need someone who 
actually has the hardware). So, if that is the case, I'm going to close 
your installation report.

Would connecting the external drive to another box be an option?

Cheers,
FJP

[1] It is no use looking for this in the installed system as that does not
    use devfs.