Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors
Only passing along what Joey Hess was able to work out when I wrote to
the list a few days ago :) I'll be filing a bug report before I go to
bed tonight -- I was a bit preoccupied with trying to get X working
decently on an Epia MII-12000 :)
Three cheers for the new Debian Installer --it's rather slick when it
works!
Take care,
-Dan C
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:11 -0400, shrevie@ntnation.com wrote:
> If you were blonde, female, and weighed less than 400 lbs I'd kiss you :)
>
> Yes, you're 100% right... that's exactly the problem. If you're
> installing to a hard disk of 100gig or greater, the Beta 4 installer and
> the Testing Candidate 1 installer will fail, giving you no real error
> messages, etc.
>
> I was able to verify this, and with a little disk-juggling, got this
> working.
>
> I didn't see this in the BTS.... have you filed a bug report on it? I'd
> say this was a pretty major problem that while easy to fix, really needs
> to be corrected in TC1.
>
> Once again, Dan, thanks so much for your help!
>
> Moe
>
> Dan Callahan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:34 -0400, shrevie@ntnation.com wrote:
> >
> >>I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and
> >>Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always
> >>die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting
> >>the installer use the entire disk).
> >
> >
> > How large is your disk? I was running into similar issues, and it turns
> > out base-installer at some point runs `df /target/` to determine the
> > target disk. If your disk is large enough, the "1k-blocks" column runs
> > into the "Filesystem" column, adding all manner of digits to the end of
> > the filesystem address.
> >
> > My email on the issue is under the subject "Installer fails on
> > initrd-tools"
> >
> > -Dan C
> >
> >
>
>
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