Re: Problem with etch AMD64 netinst/business card install 20051022 build
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:16:31AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 22 October 2005 22:18, Anthony Lau wrote:
> > I downloaded the netinst and business card images for the etch AMD64
> > 20051022 build and burned them to disk. Booting using either disk the
> > installer runs fine (network seems properly configured from 'ifconfig')
> > until it reaches "Installing Base System". At this point, the installer
> > fails. Checking the log on VT3, I see this:
>
> It looks very much as if there are intermittent errors accessing your
> diskdrive and/or CD-ROM. In that case, this is probably a kernel driver
> problem.
>
> Could you please file a full installation report [1] and attach
> the /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages (gzipped) from the
> installation?
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
Hi,
Thanks for your reply but I have already installed Debian3.0r1 on the machine.
Also, it would have been very difficult to get /var/log/syslog and messages off
the machine as it was running off the installer unless, the netinst has ssh or
can use usbdrive. The machine doesn't have a floppy.
The HDD and the CDROM were both hooked into the PATA bus, so I thought the
driver should be pretty mature. I did mimic the install script to see what happened.
/bin/mount was never installed into /target/bin. I copied mount from the netinst
disk into /target/bin and the install progressed until it tried to use dpkg-deb
(I think). The install failed because dpkg/dpkg-deb was not installed and I could
not figure out how to install the package.
I would like to, eventually, run AMD64 arch on the machine so I may give it another
try.
Thanks,
Anthony
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