Bug#502912: closed by Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (reply to 502912@bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#502912: debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs "modprobe vfat" first)
Hi,
I actually used a daily lenny snapshot for installation. I saw the
microcode-related dialog, but honestly, I didn't quite understand what
it was trying to say. Plugging in the USB key with the firmware on it
and clicking "continue" didn't seem to help, the installer (seemed to)
hang (I think it tried to mount the non-existent floppy (looking at 'ps
xa') and that takes a lot to time-out). The dialog was all too new to
me, and I had no clue what it was saying (it wasn't the english, neither
my stupidity in Linux -- the text is definitely badly written). So, I
re-booted, and when faced the message, I tried the good-old-console. And
that is why I wrote the bug report. The bug I think is still somewhat
relevant, though next time, I will try to do something useful with that
dialog.
Until then, maybe a re-wording of that dialog would help: the dialog did
not indicate it will search through all pulugged-in mediums, though
according to what you said, that is what I suspect it would have done
had I given it time. Maybe a one-liner to indicate this would be nice to
have.
Bests,
Mate
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the debian-installer package:
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> #502912: debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs "modprobe vfat" first
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> It has been closed by Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (reply to 502912@bugs.debian.org).
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> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
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> Subject:
> Re: Bug#502912: debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs
> "modprobe vfat" first
> From:
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
> Date:
> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:03:17 +0200
> To:
> Mate Soos <msoos@freemail.hu>, 502912-done@bugs.debian.org
>
> To:
> Mate Soos <msoos@freemail.hu>, 502912-done@bugs.debian.org
>
>
> On Monday 20 October 2008, Mate Soos wrote:
>> I needed to have ipw2100 firmware, so I switched to console, and typed
>> "mkdir /mnt/disk" then "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk"
>
> Current versions of D-I (daily built images and RC1 when it is released)
> support loading firmware in a more structured way. See the installation
> guide [1] for details.
>
> [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch02s02.html
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch06s04.html
>
>
>
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> Subject:
> debian-installer: mounting fat32 system broken, needs "modprobe vfat" first
> From:
> Mate Soos <msoos@freemail.hu>
> Date:
> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:02:22 +0200
> To:
> Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
>
> To:
> Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
>
>
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: normal
>
> I needed to have ipw2100 firmware, so I switched to console, and typed
> "mkdir /mnt/disk" then "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk" but it gave a really
> impossible-to-understand error, nothing to do with vfat. I realised
> that all it needed was "modprobe vfat". I have USB keys formatted to
> fat32 due to windows-compatibility.
>
> As a side-note, the directory /lib/firmware does *not* exist, and there
> is no textual indication where the firmware should be placed. I just
> guessed it had to be at /lib/firmware. The "/lib/firmware" should exist,
> and the interface should make it clear that if the firmware is manually installed,
> it should be placed there.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
>
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