Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups
* Rick Thomas <rbthomas@slug.rcthomas.org> [2008-12-30 19:12]:
> I originally wanted to try installing Lenny on an 8GB thumb drive.
> But it failed repeatedly during the "installing basic software"
> phase with the thumb drive going "read only". I suspected that
> the thumb drive was being driven harder than it's design spec
> and over heating on me. I'll try again some other day with
> a different type of thumb drive.
Indeed, sounds like a hardware problem to me.
> Another thing I could try is use "ext2" instaead of "ext3"
> filesystems on the thumb drive, and using "noatime" or "relatime"
> options. Journaling on a flash-based media is reported to be a bad
> idea due to the increased number of media writes per user I/O
> operation.
noatime is a known wishlist that will be done after lenny, I guess.
ext2 instead of ext3 is a good idea... maybe this should be offered on
the NSLU2 by default as one option. On the other hand, it's also
fairly easy to use the default partition schema and then change ext3
to ext2 in the partitioner manually before actually formating the
disk. Maybe it's enough if I mention this on my web site.
What do you think?
> One thing worth mentioning though: I have a full-service
> DHCP on this subnet, so it got the network parameters from
> DHCP. This was successful, but for some reason it decided
> that the DNS domain was "example.org", not the one being
> offered by DHCP. The text "example.org" showed up in
> the following places:
That's the value we preseed... I'm pretty sure that in the past this
value would be overwritten by the one offered by DHCP, but I can
confirm that this is no longer the case (and hasn't for a long time).
I'll look into this issue soon.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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