Re: Bug#509937: installation-guide-i386: suggested image for memory-stick booting does not contain network drivers
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:02:04PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> This has absolutely nothing to do with this bug report! Please report your
> issue separately, but first verify that you are doing things correctly.
>
> hd-media/boot.img.gz indeed does not contain any net drivers: it does not
> need them! They get loaded later during the installation.
I booted from the memory stick, and chose the basic install. After
searching the local disks, it reported that it couldn't find any ISO
images and said I'd have to net boot (fine). I continued, and it
attempted to set up networking, which failed because it couldn't
discover any networking hardware. At that point, I assumed (maybe
incorrectly) I wouldn't be able to net boot, because the only menu
choices were to go back and re-try what I had already tried.
> You are simply not using the installer correctly.
If there was something else I was supposed to do, it certainly wasn't
obvious.
By comparison, I wiped that memory stick and recreated it the "hard
way" using syslinux and the linux and initrd images from the
netboot/debian-installer directory. That worked fine.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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