Bug#316929: [HELP] Re: Bug#316929: Package: installation-reports
Other d-i ppl, look further please.
> - NIC is a NE2000 clone sitting on ISA. It was not auto detected.
> Loading 'ne io=0x300-0x31f irq=5' by hand solved the problem.
This is a known "problem" without real good solution except than doing
what you actually did : load the module with options in expert mode.
This is documented in the install manual, IIRC.
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> - BIOS is seriously buggy and will hang upon detecting HDD with a
> capacity>33GB during boot. The HDD was jumpered to lie about its
> real capacity (80GB) to the BIOS. Boot process continued fine, but
> Debian Installer INSISTED on using the fake HDD capacity instead of
> detecting the real one.
>
> - Partitioning of a HDD with incorrectly detected capacity was useless.
That is an important problem. I'm not sure which package we have to
assign it to?
Other team members? Assign to ddetect?
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