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Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 4/17/2004, Official Sarge Root/Boot Network Installation Floppies, from debian.org
uname -a: can't get that far
Date: 4/20/2004, around 3 PM
Method: Boot floppies, DSL from Verizon.net, using .nl mirrors
Machine: Toshiba Satellite A45-S250
Processor: Mobile Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE, TOSHIBA MK6021GAS 60GB
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1 NTFS 14.6GB (Windows XP)
/dev/hda5 EXT2 150MB (Minimal Slackware)
/dev/hda6 EXT2 300MB (/ for Debian; was also going to do a minimal install)
Output of lspci: can't get that far
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [Y]
Configure network HW: [Y]
Config network: [Y]
Detect CD: [N/A]
Load installer modules: [Y]
Detect hard drives: [Y]
Partition hard drives: [Y]
Create file systems: [Y] (installed on pre-partitioned by Partition-Magic partition)
Mount partitions: [Y]
Install base system: [N] (this is where it hung)
Install boot loader: [N]
Reboot: [N]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Hung while trying a download from the 'net. I think it might have been interference from a wireless Mac in our local network (I had made my notebook wired so Debian could install, but normally it's wireless too). I don't know how that could happen, but once you rule out the impossible, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth... Still, why didn't the Debian Installer time-out and restart the wget when it wasn't working? I know that the network was still working as the Mac was working perfectly fine.
-Michael
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