Bug#1015172: marked as done (wiki.debian.org: Sid installation fails - No kernel modules found - Wiki issue)
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 at 05:11, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
[snip]
> there seem
> to be some weird things going on, mixing and matching bits from bullseye
> and unstable?
I tried to install Sid with the mini.iso that the wiki ([1]) told me
to use ([2], UK mirror). I got the error message I reported. I then
dropped down to the Busybox shell. I ran 'uname -a' and it told me I
was running the debian-sid kernel 5.10.0-8, built on 2021-07-28.
In other words, the wiki is telling me use in the installation a
mini.iso that is indeed built for Sid, not Bullseye, however what is
strange is that Sid being a fast moving rolling release I am being
told to use a file that is just 11 days short of one year old! The
mirror web page says the upload date is 31-Jul-2021 04:20. The above
is in the UK mirror. I looked at the German mirror to see if it was a
problem just with the UK mirror, but it is is the same date, also
nearly one year old.
The Bullseye file that I used to successfully install Sid [3] is
timestamped 05-Jul-2022 15:57, which is only 12 days old. If you
compare the two links below in [2] and [3], the difference is that [2]
is in unstable (one year old file) and [3] is in bullseye (12 days
old). The bullseye file is recent whereas the Sid file is ancient.
This is counter-intuitive.
Cyril said "there seem to be some weird things going on, mixing and
matching bits from bullseye and unstable?". Yes, it seems so, or at
least something along those lines.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable
[2] http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
(FAILURE)
[3] http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
(SUCCESS)
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