Another report of slink installation with 2.1.3 disks

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

This time problems with PCMCIA on non-PCMCIA desktop machine.

CONFIGURATION:
  machine:    Abit BH6 mother board, Celeron 300A overclocked to 450MHz
  memory:     128MB SDRAM
  disk:       IBM Deskstart 8GB
  partitions: hda1 3GB fat32
              hda2 2GB Linux root
              hda3 1GV Extented
              hda4 2GB Reserved for *BSD
              hda5 128MB Linux swap
              hda6 890MB Linux native
  scsi:       none
  sound:      none
  video card: Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB)
  cd-rom:     Mitsumi 32x (IDE/ATAPI)
  net card:   3Com 905b

TESTING TARGET:
  task:       Base system installation (slink)
  source:     boot-floppies 2.1.3 from upload@erlangen

PREPARATION:
  Used dd to create rescue and drivers floppies. Prepared NFS server on
  another machine to export directory containing base2_1.tgz and other
  boot related files (rescue, drivers, etc.). The machine running NFS
  server has also complete mirror of slink and hamm and was later used
  to install the rest of the packages with dselect/apt over HTTP.

PROCESS:
  Earlier this week I changed my disk to LBA in BIOS and all the
  partition weirdness I described last weekend is history now. 
 
  Had no problems until it was time to configured modules. When 
  selecting network drivers, modconf seems to freeze with message
  "Please wait while modules are detected".

  I took a look at the modconf script, and found mysterious
        read foo
  from line 313. Maybe replacing it with "sleep 2" would be better if a 
  pause is desired?

  After that there were no problems and it was the time to do the
  first boot.

  After boot I decided to remove PCMCIA since the target is a desktop 
  machine. Then I skipped the default profiles in "choose of default 
  selections" and chose the default dselect package set. After the 
  packages were retrieved with apt over HTTP, installation stopped 
  since:
    Error: the current /etc/conf.modules is not automatically generated.
    Use "update-modules force" to force (re)generation.
    dpkg: error processing pcmcia-cs (--remove):
     subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    pcmcia-cs

  I quit dselect and did what was asked ("update-modules force") and 
  then everything worked just find with dselect. Just as with the 
  laptop installation in my previous mail, everything installed
  cleanly.

  Just as with the laptop, fi-latin1 keymap was not installed and I had 
  to manually load it after booting.

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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