Bug#196293: installation-reports: trying debian-installer (2003-06-04)

[Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:35:02PM +0200, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-05
> Severity: normal
> 
> INSTALL REPORT

[...]

I had another try.

> I need the rtl8139 kernel module

That's what the automatic detection says. But it looks like it's wrong.
I tried to select "8139too" from the list, but that failed with an
error message like "An error has occured". After some looking around
and trying to modprobe the module by hand, I found that it searches in
/kernel, not in /lib/modules/something.

Ok, now loading of the 8139too module worked. Setting up a static
network also seems to have worked without errors. In the absence of
ping I have no real way to check however.

Meanwhile I had installed a basic Debian system with the woody
installer on that system. 

So I tried to "Configure and mount partitions" again. That seemed to
work. At least there was no error. But "Install the base system"
printed "Failed getting release files" and told me to look at
/target/var/log/debootstrap.log and debootstrap.err.log. Both files
exist but are empty.

Bye,
  Henning