Re: installation from jigdo image
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:10:32PM -0700, curtis wrote:
> About a month ago I created a CD image for a 2.4.x installation,
[snip]
> I think it was, ?install modules and drivers,? it asked me for
> access to a file. Unfortunately, I don?t remember the name of the
> file or the default location it was trying to locate it in, but my
> question is: why? Do I need to also burn some files and directories
> to the installation CD? And, how could that be possible, if the CD
> is burned as an image? Or, am I completely missing something.
I seem to remember someone saying that those additional questions are
no longer asked by the latest 3.0-pre CD releases, because as you
mention there is no point in their being asked. The files are already
on the CD, and the installation system can just load them
- the question is asked because the system is designed to work
for bootable floppies too, and the question makes sense in that case.
> I then have the option of choosing from a list of directories or
> typing in the appropriate directory. I permit the installation
> program to search for the directory itself. It looks for the
> following: "images-1.44/rescue.bin "
>
> And then comes back that it can't find "rescue.bin, drivers.tgz"
I recollect having a similar problem long ago when I installed 2.2r0:
I had to specify the directory manually, because the automatic
scanning didn't work. On my old 2.2r0 CD the following is present:
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/compact/drivers.tgz
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/drivers.tgz
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/idepci/drivers.tgz
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/compact/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/safe/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44/udma66/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/compact/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/idepci/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-2.88/udma66/rescue.bin
dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/udma66/drivers.tgz
> So, I go to the CD FAQ. And what do I find:
...information about CDs. Your question is outside the scope of that
FAQ! :-)
> "The packages on the CDs are sorted by popularity: CD 1 contains the
> installation system and the most popular packages. CD 2 contains
> slightly less popular ones, CD 3 even less popular ones, etc.[snip]"
>
> So, I used Jigdo and I got 3 files. Are you saying each is for a
> separate CD?
Yes - and just a single CD is already sufficient for installation.
> I see nothing on the FAQ about what I'm supposed to do with these
> images and how to install.
Well, you write each image to CD-R and boot from CD. Everything after
that should theoretically be described in the installation manual
<http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual>, which is linked
to from the CD pages.
HTH,
Richard
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