Re: Installing Sarge
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>On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:15:52AM -0600, Dondalah wrote:
>> I have been using Potato and Woody with tremendous success.
>> Then I tried installing Sarge with disastrous results.
>> I expected Sarge to be easy to install, just like Potato
>> and Woody.
>>
>> First I tried installing a console system with defaults.
>> That didn't work. Then I tried installing as an expert.
>> I reached the same point in the install, and then it
>> failed.
>>
>> The most unusual part about my system is that it is
>> very old. My system bus is 33 MHz. I have an old
>> ISA motherboard. My disk controller is simple IDE,
>> ATAPI. Woody had no trouble with my hardware. I
>> didn't have to do anything special with it.
>>
>> Since the system doesn't boot, I can't copy any log
>> files to this message. I'm writing this on Slackware.
>>
>> Here are the steps of the install:
>>
>> Language: American English
>> Country: USA
>> Keyboard: USA standard.
>> Modules selected:
>> Linux floppy
>> ide-core
>> ide-generic
>> ide-disk
>> ide-cd
>> isofs
>> (pcmcia was not selected)
>> Scanning CD-ROM: CD-ROM detected
>> Low priority modules: none
>> Loading Debian installer components: no problem
>> Detect network hardware:
>> Deselected USB storage
>> Deselected PCMCIA
>> Selected ne2000 irq=5 io=0x300
>> Received error while running
>> modprobe -v ne irq=5 io=0x300 (This works in Slackware)
>> Configure the network: skipped this step
>> Confirmed to deselect USB storage
>> Detect hardware: no problem
>> Partition disks:
>> Manually edited the partition table.
>> Edited swap and ext2 partitions to force the format.
>> Used defaults for each.
>> Wrote changes to disk.
>> Formatted swap and root file systems.
>> Install base system:
>> Selected 2.4 kernel for i386
>> Installed GRUB.
>> Finish installation: no problem.
>> Storing language: no problem.
>> CD-ROM was ejected.
>> Removed the System Boot Manager floppy.
>> Received "Saving logs and rebooting"
>> Reboot froze after getting the following messages:
>> "Urandom start failed"
>> "Done"
>> "Recovering NVI editor sessions...done"
>>
>> Where do I go from here? I'd like to nurse the
>> Debian system up and running as my main system.
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:47:35 -0500 (EST), Len Sorensen wrote:
> Hmm, well I have sarge working on a 486, although it was installed using
> debian 2.1 and then upgraded with apt-get ever since (without any real
> problems ever). I don't believe in ever having to reinstall from
> scratch after starting to use Debian.
> NVI edit cleanup is at S70 in rcS.d, and after that comes screen
> cleanup, X11 stuff, sudo stuff, then it should go to rc2.d and continue
> there. First thing in rc2.d is usually syslog.
> The urandom start failed is odd looking. Anything more above that
> maybe?
> Len Sorensen
The problem turned out to be that I wasn't using
initrd during the boot.
AFter I was able to clear this up, all the other
problems went away.
Thanks for your help and encouragement,
dondalah@ripco.com
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