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Bug#864715: marked as done (USB netinst fails to identify /media/cdrom as a path for base system packages or /cdrom mounting)

Your message dated Fri, 7 Aug 2020 23:44:04 +0200
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and subject line Re: Mass-closing old installation-report bugs  ---  round 4
has caused the Debian Bug report #864715,
regarding USB netinst fails to identify /media/cdrom as a path for base system packages or /cdrom mounting
to be marked as done.

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864715: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864715
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Package: installation-reports
On running the installer manually from inside the OEM Windows installed, everything appeared to run smoothly up to the reboot following partition and formatting of the machines drives. On that boot the installer now running off the HDD began looping at the "Install base system" step, no errors or other signs of trouble - just display the progress bar for a few mins, then flick out to the step-by-step listing as if that step was done - but highlighting the same "Install base system" entry every time enter was pressed to start the step.
Manually going to the next step on the list failed with a message about the base system not being fully present.
Skipping to the shell for manual inspection showed that the path /cdrom was being searched for the image packages but non-existent already (expected after install is complete, but not halfway through). Since this was a USB based install the netinst image had been loaded as /media/cdrom, and /dev/cdrom was not a mountable device since the CD/DVD drive did not have a disk.
Manually creating a symlink "ln -s /media/cdrom /cdrom" allowed the installer to continue and successfully install the system.
NP: if this is not already fixed in the latest 1-2 installer versions it really should be handled for Stretch. This has a high potential for newbies "bricking" their machines since they will not readily know the manual fix necessary. 


 -- Package-specific info:

Boot method: netinst image on a USB drive, run from Windows 7
Image version: unknown sorry, downloaded from Debian mirrors 2017-05-12
Date: 2017-05-21

Machine: Dell
Processor: Intel Celeron (64-bit quad-core)
Memory: 4GB
Partitions:
ilesystem     Type     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev           devtmpfs     10240        0     10240   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs       400936    46044    354892  12% /run
/dev/dm-0      ext4     149393716 12988176 128793740  10% /
tmpfs          tmpfs      1002340        0   1002340   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs         5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs      1002340        0   1002340   0% /sys/fs/cgroup


 Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller [8086:2e10] (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port [8086:2e11] (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e12] (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2e13] (rev 03) 00:03.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:2e14] (rev 03) 00:03.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller [8086:2e16] (rev 03) 00:03.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Serial KT Controller [8086:2e17] (rev 03) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10de] (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:3a67] (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:3a68] (rev 02) 00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:3a69] (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a6c] (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:3a6e] (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:3a70] (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:3a72] (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a64] (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:3a65] (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:3a66] (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:3a6a] (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev a2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801JDO (ICH10DO) LPC Interface Controller [8086:3a14] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller [0104]: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] [8086:2822] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801JD/DO (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:3a60] (rev 02) 




 Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [E]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:
Just the one mentioned above. Same image has been used on prior machines and more recent one no problems. But those were all done starting from a boot from the USB containing installer image. This attempt seeing issues is the one and only time OEM's Windows install has needed to be used to bootstrap the installation process. 


Cheers
AYJ

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Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm closing the reports below.
> 
> That's installation-reports for Debian 7 with
> - undefined errors
> - problems which are likely to have been fixed in the meantime
> - successful installation
> 
> Because of the age, there is no chance to analyse them further and therefore
> they are no longer relevant or of any use for current releases:

round 4 (for Debian 7 / 8):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809618
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809654
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813378
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815491
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815831
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=817259
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=817946
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819007
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822940
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823845
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824496
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824731
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825835
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826018
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827257
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827610
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827828
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829613
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831513
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831842
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834601
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834806
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834930
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835567
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836345
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837509
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837625
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838319
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839042
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839672
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839803
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840585
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841062
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841747
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842382
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843348
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844519
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=846946
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=847038
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848075
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848147
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848383
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848929
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849508
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850747
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851947
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852660
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853268
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855349
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857453
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857605
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857646
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859396
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859449
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859970
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860447
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861267
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862501
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864645
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864715
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865458
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870241
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606110
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734756
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776151
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783637
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801832



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