Bug#510271: installation-report: Lenny on a Slug - eventual success after a few tries and some fixups

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

I'm getting ready to try this Friday.

What URL should I use to download the Debian Installer from?

Thanks!


Rick

On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * Rick Thomas <rbthomas@slug.rcthomas.org> [2008-12-30 19:12]:
> > 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:
>
> I need some more information on this.
>
> Please make a backup of your flash with
>    cat /dev/mtdblock? > mtd-backup
> and copy it to your machine, so you can later write it back to the
> NSLU2 with upslug2.
>
> Then download the Debian installer image again and load it with
> upslug2.
>
> When you connect to the installer, open a shell and run the following
> commands.  Please send me the output.
>
>   cat /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases
>   debconf-get netcfg/get_hostname
>   debconf-get netcfg/get_domain
>   cat /preseed.cfg
>
> You can then flash mtd-backup with upslug2 to get back into your
> system.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Martin Michlmayr
> http://www.cyrius.com/