On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:56:18AM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:07:19PM -0400, John Kerr Anderson wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on an Ultra 5. After installing the base > >> packages, the machine says that Silo will be installed, but it keeps on > >> failing. This is what it says: > >> > >> "Silo wasn't able to install. You'll still be able to boot your system if > >> you create a boot floppy, but it won't be able to boot without a floppy." > >> > >> I can't get the machine to create a boot disk either. I know the drive > >> works OK. > >> > >> Can anyone tell me what's wrong? The kernel version is 2.4.18. > >> Any help would be appreciated! > > > > At http://bugs.debian.org/271477 is succesfull report of an installation > > with the installer that will be used in in Debian 3.1. > > > > My advice is that you use the new Debian Installer. > > And I'm curious if you will encounter http://bugs.debian.org/267428 > > which is also about a "conflict" of Ultra 5 and silo. > > > >> Thanks in advace. > > Feedback is always good. > > > Hi, > > Thanks for the pointers, but I still think something is wrong. I created > a cd image from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ the > installation went fine until once again, silo wouldn't install. It gave > me a silo error code of 1. I used the sarge debian installer image, > should I use one of the daily build images instead? Any help again would > be appreciated. :-) > Recently I saw a simular message. I adviced to follow the defaults of the Debian Installer [1] It was replied with "now it works". ((sorry)no details where included) > Any help again would be appreciated. :-) Feedback is allways welcome. > Cheers, > > John Cheers Geert Stappers [1] much of the research of d-i is in sane defaults P.S. Allow people that use the archive (Google is their friend) to read the text in the sequence as it was written. In otherwords: Please reply below the text
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