Re: Live installer fails to install
On 04/09/11 02:20 PM, Rafael Belmonte wrote:
> Hello I have tried to install Debian with images
> debian-live-6.0.2-i386-kde-desktop.iso and
> debian-live-6.0.2-amd64-kde-desktop.iso with the md5sum checked.
> I run the installer from the launcher on the desktop (with KDE running),
> and it fails at adding the internet mirror while there is a working
> connection, and later it fails to install grub.
This is probably a matter of ifupdown (inside the installer) and
NetworkManager (in the KDE system) arguing over who has control over
setting up the network. Since Debian-Installer wants to bring up the
network with ifupdown, it will disturb any connection that NM sets up
outside. I am not quite sure how to work around this. Probably the best
way would be to boot the live media without a network and then let the
installer do its thing. Try booting with ip=frommedia which will tell
live-boot to skip network configuration and assume it is present on the
live media, perhaps?
> Therefore the system cannot be installed by this way.
I have successfully installed using the desktop launcher with the
network running on the live system. However, I have had to somehow skip
the network configuration. If booting the live system with the wireless
network configured, for instance, I specified 'eth0' (not plugged in at
the time) as my network interface to Debian Installer, let it fail, and
then continued the install without a network.
As for GRUB step failing, it sounds like you did not continue after the
network configuration failure as you should have. That would have
finished the final stages, including GRUB setup.
Ben
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