On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:52:57PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > Charles Blair wrote: > >> I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a > >> recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk > >> that the sarge installer doesn't recognize). > > > >> I downloaded the first CD image and booted the installer. > >> The partitioning and other steps seemed to be all right. During > >> the base install: > > > >> (1) I was asked to pick a kernel, and chose the default > >> linux-image-2.6-486 > > > >> (2) Various successful install messages were displayed > >> until it said there was a problem with initramfs-tools. > >> I was referred to console #4, which displayed in part: > > > >>> Errors were encountered while processing: > >>> console-tools > >>> console-common you know, this error doesn't correlate with the initramfs-tools errors. Did you find errors that mention initramsfs-tools? I think the console installs can probabnyl be worked aroudn pretty easily, but the other could be trickier, but we need better information. A
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