Re: Installation from a usb drive

[Giuseppe Marinelli <giuseppe.marinelli@alice.it>]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 19:15:37 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:17:03 +0200, Giuseppe Marinelli wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > Yesterday I tried to install Debian from a usb stick carefully following
> > the instructions reported in the official guide:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en
> > and using an Etch and LennyBeta2 iso's.
> >
> > The usb drive boots correctly and starts the installation but when the
> > installer has to locate the iso image it says that the kernel is of a
> > different version from the installer itself and hangs up. The exact
> > message is:
> >
> > No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between
> > the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel available
> > in the archive
>
> To prepare the USB stick for booting, you have to make sure that you
> download the version of boot.img.gz that matches the iso that you want
> to use for installing the system.
>
> For Debian 4.0r4 Etch:
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/imag
>es/hd-media/boot.img.gz
>
> For Lenny beta 2:
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/i
>mages/hd-media/boot.img.gz
>
> --
> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>           Florian   |

Florian,
thank you for the links. Evidently the boot.img.gz I had downloaded was not 
the correct one. The installation went smoothly.
Thanks again,

Giuseppe