Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie
Lisi Reisz wrote:
>On Tuesday 29 March 2016 23:55:33 Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> >No help - but "Join the club". Been there, done that, got the tee shirt.
>> >Mine was a new computer and, after over a day of tearing my hair out,
>> > trying again, trying differently,and re-downloading etc. etc., I
>> > installed Ubuntu MATE (how are the mighty fallen!!), just to make sure
>> > that something would install. It did. I am about to try a few more
>> > methods of getting Jessie on. But I want a night's sleep first! (This is
>> > a companion saga to the one I have already reported, not the same one).
>> > It is not helped by the fact that check sums are not available for the
>> > 8.02 or 8.03 firmware net-install isos. And 8.0.0 (for which I have got
>> > the check sums) has not got the necessary drivers.
>>
>> We've never made 8.02 or 8.03 firmware netinstall images. If you mean
>> 8.2.0 or 8.3.0,
>
>Yes, I'm sorry. I do mean 8.2.0 and 8.3.0.
OK, cool. :-)
>> look in the directories on cdimage.debian.org for the
>> signed checksums alongside the images:
>
>I'm very grateful for everything the dds do, honestly. But please, now that
>you help the blind a little, could you not start to remember the partially
>sighted?
>
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware
>>/archive/8.2.0/amd64/iso-cd/ (8.2.0 in the archive)
>>
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware
>>/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/ (8.3.0, the current stable release)
>
>This information is not available on the website. It is gold-dust. The
>website has a hyperlink that says "AMD64"
>https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/
>
><rant>
>Yes, it says that the check-sums are available. It says that they are in the
>same directories. It doesn't say where and what those directories are. It
>just has flipping hyperlinks that don't go to the directories, which would be
>fine, they just go straight into downloading.
>
>So to find the directory one has to go into the raw HTML. But I have great
>difficulty reading raw HTML. I have great difficulty finding the place on
>the page. Letters dance and lines merge. I haven't been able to read even
>large print books for ten or fifteen years.
Sorry to hear that. :-(
>And the lines I want are not even at the beginning or the end. So this time I
>googled it, in the hope of being taken straight to the directory. And found
>an email from you, presumably in fact out-dated, saying that the check sums
>for the firmware isos had not yet been put up. So I gave up.
>
>I just don't understand why the dds have decided to make it so difficult to
>get the check-sums, when check-sums are so important. There are so many ways
>that they could be made available.
></rant>
Agreed.
>You have just made them available to me. That is just fantastic! I can now
>at least be sure that my iso is not corrupted.
>
>So thank you very, very much Steve. But could you perhaps persuade your
>colleagues to make them readily available via the website?
Argh, yes. I've just filed a bug (http://bugs.debian.org/819664) to
try and get some of this mess cleared up. We have far too many web
pages with different details on them for things like downloads, and
it's a confusing mess. :-(
>> >I had not got the motherboard manual and did not know what the motherboard
>> >was, so couldn't download the manual. I have now asked the shop what it
>> > is, and downloaded the manual.
>>
>> Are you trying to dual-boot with Windows, or replace the Windows
>> setup?
>
>No. It has no Windows on it. And now I have the manual, I see that if the
>BIOS is at its defaults, the BIOS is fine, but from what the tech support
>chap said, I suspect that settings have been changed by Novatech, so that is
>what I shall look at next. I did look before, but without the manual I was a
>bit at sea.
Yup, of course! I can see that based on your information "Giga-Byte
GA-H110M-S2H" Henrique has provided more help and it may be
bleeding-ege hardware issues. Let's see how that goes when you get
back from your trip, I guess. :-)
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out
whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast."
Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
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