On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:05:19PM -0500, Steven Leach said > After yet another failed attempt to install Sarge from the latest > unofficial ISO onto my spare/testing partition, I am currently > reinstalling Woody. > > I am curious what kind of luck others have had with the Sarge > installer. The only x86 system that I have available to test on is an > epia m10000 board with an EIDE CD and hard drive. Woody installation > is flawless whereas the current Sarge installer and the debian > installer public beta 2 have both been entirely unusable (Failure to > detect CD drive [after booting from it successfully] and even the hard > drive under net install for instance) Please write to the debian-boot list and describe the problems you've had, they love install reports :-) > I am surprised that the latest installer seems to be a complete rewrite > rather than an update to the fully functional system found under Woody. The installer used for woody was rather a mess, code-wise, or so I've heard. It was supposed to be retired after potato, but the new installer wasn't ready in time. d-i (debian-installer, which sarge uses) is designed to be extendable and based on existing Debian infrastructure (all the bits are in "micro"-debs, and the questions are asked via debconf), hopefully avoiding the cruftiness of bf (boot-floppies, woody's installer). > I am hoping that the problems that I've seen are unique to my system. FWIW, I installed with an image from december a while back, and it worked great except for defaulting to a very odd keymap (but at least the arrow keys worked so I could change it to qwerty ;). -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: cracking Europol Kennedy import David John Oates tempest
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