>> Severity: normal >> Boot method: CD with expert Xfce Desktop >> Image version: Debian 6 Squeeze/Sid >> Date: Sep 6, 2010 > > Please download a daily built image from > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. Preferrably the > *netboot* image (I said *netboot*, not netinst). > > The hebaviour you noticed shouldn't be happening anymore there. OK, I got a netboot from: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/gtk/mini.iso After about 5 or 6 tries (explained more or less below) I finally seemed to attach to a mirror that had what I wanted :P Who knew trying to install Debian would be like wrangling a wild boar? Definitely better than I've seen in the past netboots (some features were definitely unique and welcomed, but some features appeared to hang without any apparent reason.) 1st Attempt: Xfce Expert Install; (no indication it was loading installer components, several seconds seemed stalled) picked NTFS and manual Partitioning installer components; manually set /dev/sde3 to /sneex and /dev/sdf2 to / (see attached screen shot.) Executed a shell and deleted these: bin .dbus etc lib media opt .rnd selinux srv tmp usr vmlinuz boot dev home initrd.img lost+found mnt proc root sbin sys .ure var Installed the base system (choose targeted for kernel 2.6-i686); package seletion was all minus laptop) then a Long pause (over 35 minutes) -- so I rebooted and tried again... Try 2 thru 4? didn't make it past detect disks, I have no idea why :P Try 5 I attempted a plain vanilla gnome install -- then it only offered system tools at Select Software and would NOT install Grub2 :P Try 6 -- before try six I watched a short movie and kicked around my Android phone (I might be smarter than a 5th Grader!) and then attempted installing: First I booted into Rescue mode and deleted these: bin .dbus etc lib media opt .rnd selinux srv tmp usr vmlinuz boot dev home initrd.img lost+found mnt proc root sbin sys .ure var Then I went for a Xfce Expert Install, no special Installer components, manually set partitions (per screen shot) and maybe the mirror I was auto attached to actually had what I was looking for because from select software on thru rest of install it appeared to be a normal Net Installation. So, I got it to work, all partitions I picked during installation are mounted and /etc/fstab is populated (old style static) and Grub2 installed but I am wondering -- are the mirrors actually able to address using a netboot method to install a machine over the internet? Seems like the problems I was having surrounding Software Selection are relating to the mirrors :P Maybe I dreamed it all; after 4 hours or so of installing something that should be less than 1 hour (my internet connection is 16-20MB) I feel I could have imagined any number of issues which magically went away during installation attempt #6 :P Cheers! Bill :)
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