Re: bugs with debian small install
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:03:18 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 02:46 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:28:44 -0400, Scott Reagan wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to install the small verion of debian, the 32 bit version and
>>> it wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install. please
>>> help. I really want this os system and have heard great things about
>>> it.
>>
>> You can try to install from an USB device.
>>
> For purposes of the discussion.
>
> This week I tried using AMD64 and i386 businesscard installations from
> USB flash drives to install Debian testing on two different systems. I
> used builds from both 08/15 and 08/17 -- all of them verified with
> SHA512. These builds all failed to install -- giving me verification
> errors with several different mirrors, including the main US one. (All
> of the d-i steps up until the step immediately after choosing the mirror
> worked perfectly.)
>
> Those same images burned to CD-R gave me perfect installations on both
> machines.
>
> This has me wondering if there was something wrong with the hybrid
> images so that they wouldn't work with the standard method of
> preparation, namely
>
> # dd if=<name-of-hybrid-image>.iso of=/dev/sdX
>
> wouldn't work. I'm worried that an attempt at using a usb device may
> fail, too.
Installer manual puts another one-liner:
4.3.1. Copying the files — the easy wa
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html#usb-copy-easy
Anyway, if you experienced an error when installing from whatever source,
you can jump to console logging to check what's happening.
> Since Scott said "dvd-rom" I'm wondering why the small image was written
> to that type of disc. I can't imagine why, but maybe the image just
> needs to be written to a standard CD+R or CD-R disc in order to work.
I think that's irrelevant for the installer. You waste a DVD but that's
all :-)
> I'd also be curious to know exactly what Scott meant by the words
> "wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install". The word
> "finish" implies that there was at least no initial problem reading the
> disc. Does Scott mean that the install process failed at the "Detect
> CD-ROM" point, or something else? I'm wondering if he could have got the
> mirror authentication error that I kept getting when trying to install
> from a usb device.
The first time I installed lenny the installer gave me "media reading
errors" and "media not found" messages, randomly... not sure why. I had
to insist (retry) in some steps in order to get the system installed.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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