Bug#505580: Package: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
This is mainly to report that I had some trouble installing the software
on the USB. Generally available versions of boot.img.gz screwed up the
USB drive, after doing:
zcat /data/Downloads/Debian/boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
the drive became unreadable. However, the daily image listed below
worked OK.
The other problem I had was knowing which iso image to install.
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html just says "copy
a Debian netinst or businesscard ISO image to it." which I did not find
particularly helpful. Also I understand that it is important to get the
iso image from the same source as the boot.img.gz file.
Boot method: USB
On another Linux computer I:
Downloaded
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz
and
Image version:
http://gensho.acc.umu.se/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Inserted a usb flash memory and in a user terminal did
zcat /data/Downloads/Debian/boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
Then in a root terminal did:
mount /dev/sda /mnt
cp /data/Downloads/Debian/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso /mnt
umount /mnt
(see http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html)
Date: 3/11/08
Machine: MSI Wind U90
The rest of the installation was fairly straightforward though I have
not got around to getting the wireless to work yet.
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