On 2010-07-09 18:41+0200 Daniel Baumann wrote:
On 07/09/2010 06:29 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:I then went back and burned a daily install (the netinst daily variant linked from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ which has no unsolved errata), and tried the exact same installation method, That install disk detected my drives automatically, and I went on to install Debian testing successfully (from where I am posting this).can you reproduce it when you use --debian-installer-distribution daily ? if yes, then it's a live-helper bug, if not, then not. :)
Not necessarily. live-helper may interact badly with --debian-installer-distribution squeeze (whatever installer that corresponds to), but be happy with the daily version. Or might be unhappy with both. Has anybody else tried to install squeeze with a DVD generated by your latest released version of live-helper? Furthermore as I said, I am in no position anymore to test installation in any way since I am already completely satisfied with the results of the alternative daily snapshot version of the squeeze installer that I used for this production system, and I don't want to "mess with success". So my message simply is a heads-up to this list that there is a severe problem for expert text installs (at least for the stated live-helper configuration I was using and my bog-standard amd64 system with SATA disk drive). If you have some evidence that squeeze installs are actually working for some configurations with your latest release, then I appreciate you will want to wait to investigate this until and if someone else has trouble with squeeze installs. But considering the installation success I had with the daily snapshot of the squeeze installar, I thought I had better let you know that the installer did not work for me for the live-helper version for the conditions stated. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________