* W. Borgert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-26 17:58]: > - installation with either beta4 or current of 2004-05-24 works, > GRUB and/or LILO can be installed on the MBR of /dev/sda, as > my collegue did not want to overwrite his /dev/hda-MBR > - kernel 2.4 and 2.6 start booting, but are panicking during boot > (I can ask, at which point exactly, if this helps)
So the debian-installer kernel boots but then the system doesn't boot? That's strange since both use the Debian kernel from the archive. Did you pass special parameters to d-i? (like "noapic" or so). > 1. If the installation failed at some point, one cannot do the > "install base system" step again - it fails. Instead one has > not only to redo the partition step again, but one has to > remove(!) the partition and recreate them. Otherwise cruft Hmm, when you mark the partition as format and enter the partitioner again, is it not formated? > 2. It would be nice, if the installer gives a friendly warning, > if one forgets to create a swap partition :-) Maybe, although I'm not sure. Many modern machines have enough RAM that they don't really need swap. Maybe partman could warn if the machine has less than a gig of ram or so. > 3. There are still display problems with kernel 2.6 (not only > in beta4!) when switching consoles sometimes. > > 4. New users do not know what "Debconf priority" means. This > is Debian newspeak :-) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]