Re: Installation problems

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

Hi,

On 19/08/12 03:10, Dave Bechtel wrote:
> --I'm pretty concerned here, guys...  The July 12 netinstall is still utterly broken (will not install Grub [...]

The July 12th d-i snapshot was taken for the Debian Wheezy beta1.  It
was released for all architectures at the same time (Linux, kFreeBSD).
Unfortunately the fix for our grub-installer issue wasn't accepted in time.

> [...] the installer that the world in general sees [...]
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/netboot-9/

That's not really where installer images are distributed from.  Instead:

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

On that page, if you scroll past the beta1 section, you'll find links to
weekly snapshots which carry the fixed version of grub-installer.

If you want to use 'netboot'. you'll also find a mini.iso here built daily:

http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/daily/netboot-9/

Although I think it might be better to use the slightly larger 'netinst'
image, and fetch it via jigdo (so your caching proxy can cache the
individual deb/udeb files it builds the ISO from) :

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/kfreebsd-amd64/jigdo-cd/


> ... even if you manage to work around that - it won't start X after boot!  

Yes it sounds like you are now seeing another known issue:

http://bugs.debian.org/683833

This is a wild guess, but you may be able to fix it by creating an
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file just containing something like:

    Section "InputClass"
        Identifier     "mouse catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
    EndSection


Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org