Oops, I forget CC the mailing list, Forwarding. El lun, 25-06-2012 a las 16:22 +0200, Matthias Richerzhagen escribió: > Hello, > > As i have no optical drive in my Computer and i didn't wanted to invest > time to get a boot USB stick running i decided to use the debian > installer from goodby-microsoft. > The first problem i encountered was, that the firmware for my ethernet > card was not supplied with the installer, so i took a USB stick > and copied the firmware files. The Debian Installer can't have firmware files (or at least, the non-free ones), this because it violates the DFSG [1] > That first of course didn't work, > because it was NTFS formatted. But that was pretty obvious, so i could > resolve that easily. (But this disability to read NTFS should be noted > somewhere inside the installer itself) The NTFS filesystem is privative, and is hardly usable and private again, this is why is not supported in the d-i. As my opinion, NTFS is a poor choice for a USB stick. > After the installer had loaded its components from the internet i > re-sized a partition on my hard drive (actually my Windows boot > partition) to have some space for Debian and installed Debian there. > The next step was to install GRUB. That was the first step that failed, > with an error message: "grub-install /dev/sda" failed. > BUT /dev/sda is the USB device i loaded the firmware for my > ethernet card from! (like i could see from the partition manager) The actual squeeze installer ask if is ok installing grub on /dev/sda, if you choice no, you can specify other device. If this was no the case, maybe the d-i from goodbye-microsft is a little out of date. > But installing LILO worked fine. > Finishing installation - rebooting - Kernel Panic. > stuck at initrd shell(?) couldt not find a kernel to load? something > like that. > "Oh damn, but i still have my Windows System" > But windows is stuck at the boot screen and says, that the > partition is corrupted and that it cannot fix that. > > So in short: > The debian installer wanted to install grub on my usb stick /dev/sda > instead of /dev/sdb (hard drive) > The partition re-size destroyed my windows boot partition (Well i cannot > really blame you for that, because of the big warning about POSSIBLE > data loss, but it worked for me on another system without the > installer several times pretty well, so i was not worried :/) Always there will be problems with NTFS partitions, in this case blame the fragmentation in NTFS. You should always defrag the partition before re-sizing it. *Other* option is let windows doing the resizing thing, he can't kill him self (Or he could?). > > Now i got a debian install usbstick, which worked fine out of the box, > but i want to share my experiences with you and have the hope, that > nobody has to make these experiences again. > Maybe this supports my theory of the d-i out of date. > Greetings > Matthias > > It's sad to hear that your windows partition blow up, but sometimes it happens. Also, I think this is no the proper place to complain. [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract Greetings, -- Atte. Félix Arreola Rodríguez, Firmado con GPG, llave 1E249EE4
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