Bug#378078: marked as done (failed sarge install on laptop)
Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:15 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #378078
has caused the Debian Bug report #378078,
regarding failed sarge install on laptop
to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst CD
Image version: 3.1r2, downloaded 7/7/06
Date: 7/10/06
Machine: Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop
Processor: Pentium II, 300MHz
Memory: 160MB
Partitions: hda1: /boot 100MB, hda2 swap 300MB, hda3 / 7.5GB
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [E] assuming 'CD' means CD-ROM
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
After the initial boot, the installer starts and the language and
keyboard layout are selected. The initial scan of the CD-ROM pool
contents appears to work. However, the next step reports the CD
is not an installation CD.
The log on VC 4 (Alt-F4) shows that a grep for the packages is
failing in the "anna" process. Specifically, at line 48 of
/usr/lib/debian-installer/retriever/cdrom-retriever
is the statement "suite=$RET". $RET is an empty string. Thus,
grep is searching for the file "/cdrom/dists//Release" (sic)
when the path is actually "/cdrom/dists/sarge/Release".
The variable "suite" should be "sarge"; modifying cdrom-retriever
to explicitly set "suite=sarge" allows the CD to be recognized
as an installation CD, and the install continues.
This same CD was used to install a few boxes at work and those went
fine.
This problem was originally encountered on the netinst CD. The
normal install CDs have the same problem.
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--- Begin Message ---
We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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