As explained below for installation of amd64 debian testing with Tyan K8WE with two dual 265 amd opteron starting from installer downloaded a couple of days ago from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I am halted at "booted from the ram disk" With LeftAlt-F1 I get ash provided with nano and, if i know how, i could redirect the installer to, I suppose, the installer CD-ROM
I just tried ~#dhclient and, if i understand, the one of the three ports (eth1 nvidia) is OK, as shown, inter alia, by: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:e0:81:57:d1:ba Sending on LPF/eth1/00:e0:81:57:d1:ba DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255,255.255.2555 port 67 DHCPAK from 192.168.1.34 -- renewal in 129600 seconds. francesco ANYWAY THE WPROKSTATION IS LEFT RUNNING TO RUN ANY USEFUL SUGGESTION francesco I am using the above TESTING installer with the above hardware (having chosen, at the installer request, ftp.de.debian.org as mirror; internet is ok on this pc bound to the same rooter). I must say that everything run smoothly, raid1 MD (I choose separate /, /usr, /var, swap, /tmp), root pass, user pass, but base system installation failed, althoug the installer CD-ROM had not been removed. Apparently the system expected SARGE: Debootstrap error: failed getting release file:///cdrom/dists/sarge/release I insisted and the window "preparing to install the base system appeared for a long while but exited with the same above error, reporting errors at virtual console 4. LeftAlt-F4 is very long, the two last lines: ---Running /usr/lib/base-installer.d/40netcf ---exiting on error base-installer/debootstrap-failed On Enter, further lines report about kernel ---md: using max available idle IO bandwidth (but no more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. ---md: using 128k window, ober a total of 2931712 blocks. ---raid1 conf printout: ---wd:2 ed:2 ---disk 0, wo:0, 0:1, dev:sda9. ---disk1, wo:0, 0:1. dev:sdb9. ---md: md2: sync done. ---as abore repeated for sda6 and asb6 Hope to get suggestions as either letting the testin CD-ROM being recognized or something else. Nothing against installing Sarge at this point,, only to know how. THE WORKSATTION IS LEFT RUNNING IN THE HOPE OF A RECOVERING SUGGESTION Thank you francesco pietra > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com > 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 > Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 > > > The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of > getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into > small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. > --Mark Twain > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
