Re: sarge installer: unsure what images needed
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On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:40 am, Alexis Huxley wrote:
> Hi, I'm attempting to install 'testing' on a very
> old PC which will not boot from CDROM, and does not
> have a "common" NIC (it's an SMC something). I have referred to
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/cu
>rrent/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO and have tried to install, but got errors
> about possibly corrupt CDs and Debian mirrors.
>
> I don't believe anything is corrupt, so I went back to the
> above-mentioned URL and re-read it. And now I'm confused
> about what I need in order to make the installation.
>
> What I would *like* to do is to boot from floppies and then install
> everything from local CDROMs, but from the above document it seems
> that *only* network installation is supported; at least that is
> what I interpreted from "These images are intended to boot from CD
> and install additional packages over a network" in the "2. CDROM"
> section.
>
> Here is what I believe I did :-), if anybody could comment or
> suggest what I should have done instead then it would be appreciated!
>
> 1) burn "netinst" ISO image to CDROM.
>
> 2) dd to floppy images bootfloppy-image.img, floppy-image.img and
> the net_drivers and cd_driver images.
>
> 3) boot the 'bootfloppy-image.img' floppy
>
> 4) when prompted insert exchange it for the 'floppy-image.img'
> floppy (which is really a "root" fs image, right?)
>
> 5) DHCP config fails, manual NIC config also fails (presumably
> because my NIC is not "common")
>
> 6) insert cd_drivers floppy and insert netinst CDROM
>
> 7) load drivers from cd_drivers
>
> 8) Running "df" on ALT-F2 VT now shows CDROM is mounted
>
> 9) installer reports that CDROM or Mirror is corrupt
>
> 10) somehow make it switch to behaving as if it had booted directly
> from the CDROM ???
>
> 11) then do an installation from network using either Germany
> mirror or local mirror of 'testing'.
>
> If anyone can offer any advice, it'd be appreciated! Many thanks!
>
> Also, can anybody confirm: at the moment it is not possible to
> install with the new installer using CDROMs as the source?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alexis Huxley
> ahuxley@gmx.net
Instead of the netinstall cd use the regular cd, esp if you want to do a
cd install. The new installer works fine for cd/dvd installs.
- --
Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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