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----- Forwarded message from Mika S Marjamäki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Subject: Re: Bug#269737: debian-installer: Kernel modules not included in netboot images From: Mika S Marjamäki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Movial X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:02:07 +0300 pe, 2004-09-03 kello 12:27, Christian Perrier kirjoitti: > Quoting Mika S Marjamäki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: debian-installer > > Severity: important > > > > I'm trying to use netboot images for PXE-booting the Debian installer on > > i386 hardware. > > > > The netboot-images don't include any useful kernel modules for using > > e.g. hard disks -- I have to manually download kernel module udebs from > > my debian-mirror and install them manually to make the installer aware > > of them. > Which image did you use ? > > If this is a 20040901 build, partman seems to be unable to recognize > hard disks..:-) > > Try with the RC1 netboot image, or 20040830 (before partman went > broken). I think I used either 20040901 or 20040830 or 20040831. Many images anyway as I have had to try the installation quite many times... But the problem is not with partman anyway, it's with netboot-images not containing ANY modules for storage etc. -- only network drivers come with the installer and the installer is not able to fetch the rest of the modules from the network. Mika -- Mika S. Marjamäki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +358-44-5556966 Movial Oy <http://www.movial.fi/> ----- End forwarded message ----- --