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Bug#594588: installation-reports



Tried the daily build version of the installer CD and it works now.
Thanks.

Best regards,
Thomas Otto

Am Freitag, den 27.08.2010, 16:48 +0000 schrieb Christian PERRIER:
> Quoting Thomas Otto (thomas.otto@exedio.com):
> > Package: installation-reports
> > 
> > Boot method: Squeeze Netinst CD AMD64 alpha1
> > Image version: alpha1	
> > Date: 27.Aug 2010
> > 
> > Machine: Dell Poweredge R710
> > Processor: Xeon X5600 Series
> > Memory: 32GB
> > Partitions: makes no sense here
> > 
> > Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
> > installation failes so, makes no sense here.
> > 
> > Base System Installation Checklist:
> > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
> > 
> > Initial boot:           [O]
> > Detect network card:    [E]
> > Configure network:      [ ]
> > Detect CD:              [ ]
> > Load installer modules: [ ]
> > Detect hard drives:     [ ]
> > Partition hard drives:  [ ]
> > Install base system:    [ ]
> > Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
> > User/password setup:    [ ]
> > Install tasks:          [ ]
> > Install boot loader:    [ ]
> > Overall install:        [ ]
> > 
> > Comments/Problems:
> > 
> > All Dell R710 Servers contain a Broadcom network card. For that we need the bnx2 driver which requires some firmware
> > files. These firmware files should reside inside a bnx2/firmwarename subdirectory. If i put all required file on an USB-Stick 
> > for third-party driver installation then the firmware-files are not correctly copied to /lib/firmware/bnx2 but instead to /lib/firmware and only one of them.
> > So the third-party driver installation failes. And obviously the netinstall too. 8-)
> 
> This is apparently bug 572785, which was fixed in hw-detect
> 1.77. Could you try using a *daily built* *netboot* image from
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer?
> 
> 
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