RE: Installation Debian 3.1
Hi.
First of all thanks for your reply. And my aplogizes for my language! It
was late and I was angry!
I just tried your Etch Beta1. I got the following error: Failed to load
installer component. Loading Libc6-udeb failed for unknown reasons -
Aborting.
When installing from the 2 Debian DVDs, Debian sees the following:
IDE1 (slave) All or part of it (16 GB)
IDE5 Master - 1 partition of 20GB with XP Pro os and 1 partiton of 56GB for
windows data.
IDE6 Master - 35 GB for windows data - mainly audio and video.
IDE5 is my XP disk
IDE6 is windows data disk
I select IDE1 hdb all and leave Debian to do the partioning.
It installs all correctly and at reboot, XP pro only starts up.
Regatding the re-installation of XP, I am XP administrator.
Regards
Ph. Labio
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Christian Perrier [mailto:bubulle@debian.org]
Envoyé : mercredi 14 décembre 2005 7:28
À : Philippe Labio
Cc : debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Objet : Re: Installation Debian 3.1
Quoting Philippe Labio (philippe.labio@skynet.be):
> J'ai les deux DVD de Debian 3.1!
> J'essaie vainement d'installer! L'!installation (tout par défaut)
> fonctionne correctement jusqu'au re-démarrage!
> Grub, Lilo ou GaG ne détectent jamais l'installation de Debian!
> J'ai trois disques. L'un avec XP Pro français! Que j'installe Debian
> sur l'un ou l'autre des deux disques durs, au redémarrage, c'est XP
> qui démarre sans aucun choix possible! Après 10 installations....
> J'en ai ras le bol! Avec RedHat (version documentation) tout a
> fonctionné du premier coup! Une des installations m'a même obligé à
> re-installer XP et m'a fait perdre toutes mes données, y compris mon
backup!
> Merci à vous pour cette saloperie!
Translation (though the rude language probably doesn't deserve it):
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I have the two Debian 3.1 DVD!
Up to now I failed to install it. The installation works flawlessly up to
the first reboot.
Then, Grub, Lilo or Gag never detect the installed Debian system.
I have 3 disks. One with the French version of Windows XP Pro. Not matter
which disk I install Debian on, XP starts with no other possible choice.
After 10 installs, I'm sick of it. With RedHat (documentation version),
everything worked well at first try. One of my installs even forced me to
reinstall XP et made me lose my data.
Thanks to you for this crap.
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First of all, Philippe, using rude language with volunteer work usually not
highly welcomed in the Free Software development world.
We understand that you went on difficult issues with your Debian experience
and we're very sorry for this.
>From your description, you probably went on a case that's not very common
(the three hard disks) and the boot loader installers did not work as
expected.
What you describe as Debian "destroying" an XP install is certainly just an
install of GRUB in place of the XP boot loader. This is certainly *not* an
overwrite of the XP install unless you asked Debian to "Use the entire disk"
on a disk that contains XP...or redesigned the partition scheme and
overwrite an XP partition.
So, Debian did not destroy your data: you either destroyed it yourself....or
just were unable to recover the XP boot loader (which any competent Windows
administrator knows how to do). You probably solved the issue by the usual
Windows user action of reinstalling the system when one doesn't understand
anymore what happens. So, please, don't blame Debian for destroying your
data.
As said, your setup is probably not well supported by the installation
system of sarge, and especially the multiple hard disks setup. This is
something we still have to improve and getting user input is the best way we
have for doing so.
Unlike Redhat or other commercial vendor, we cannot afford paying people and
hardware to test all possible combinations and we often rely on our users to
help us improving our system.
So, if you still want to really tryout Debian, I can urge you to try the
"Etch beta1" version of the installer which you will find from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer.
Describing your setup more indetails would help as well (are the 3 disks IDE
disks and which one is Windows on...and which one did you try to install
Debian on).
This answer uses English because this is the common language used by Debian
developers. If you want support in French, you can use the
debian-user-french@lists.debian.org mailing list, or the #debian-fr channel
on irc.debian.org or irc.oftc.net.
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