Bug#620569: usbkey install wheezy i386 doesn't work

[Lorenzo Bernardi <lorenzo.bernardi@lpn.cnrs.fr>]

On 04/07/2011 01:36 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
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> > There is no guarantee that the testing installer will work at any given
> > time.  You can try the testing snapshot release, which has certain known
> > problems already, has been tested, and is known to work:
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> That should say "certain known problems already *fixed*".
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I have tried to is the iso image on the page you gave me  and when I 
tried to install using the USB key I have the following message in the log:
Apr 08 09:08:01 iso-scan:./debian-testing-snapshot-2011.04-i386-mini.iso 
not a Debian iso

I have looked at the image by mounting them:
mount -o loop ./debian-testing-snapshot-2011.04-i386-mini.iso /tmp/dd
ls /tmp/dd/
adtxt.cfg  dtmenu.cfg     f10.txt  f2.txt  f4.txt  f6.txt  f8.txt  
g2ldr      initrd.gz       isolinux.cfg  linux    menu.cfg    rqtxt.cfg  
splash.png   txt.cfg      win32-loader.ini
boot.cat   exithelp.cfg  f1.txt   f3.txt  f5.txt  f7.txt  f9.txt  
g2ldr.mbr  isolinux.bin  kde         lxde    prompt.cfg  setup.exe  
stdmenu.cfg  vesamenu.c32  xfce

and the daily build iso image gives something different.

mount -o loop ~/OLD/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso /tmp/dd
ls /tmp/dd/
autorun.inf  debian  doc       g2ldr      install      isolinux    pics  
README.html          README.mirrors.txt  README.txt  tools
css         dists   firmware  g2ldr.mbr  install.386  md5sum.txt  pool  
README.mirrors.html  README.source      setup.exe   win32-loader.ini

I should say that using the daily build image burn on a CD works 
perfectly it is only the usb key installation setup that causes me 
problems.

When I try to do the installation with the daily build I have these two 
lines in the log

Apr  3 09:08:35 anna[1914]: grep: /cdrom/dists/stable/Release: No such 
file or directory
Apr  3 09:08:35 cdrom-retriever: error: No components listed in 
/cdrom/dists/stable/Release.

It looks to me that the installer (anna?) is looking for a stable 
release not a testing one. And in fact in the daily build the 
dists/stable/Release directory doesn't exist.

If I put a squeeze iso image it loads the CD but complains that there is 
a kernel mismatch between the installer (2.6.37-2-486) and the modules 
found in the iso image.

sincerely

L.