Thank you for quick and helpful response. On Sunday 10 October 2004 20:47, Joey Hess wrote: > Peder Chr. Nørgaard wrote: > > P1) D-i asks for "Start PC Card services?" three times during the > > process - one would be more reasonable. The three times are during > > "Detect and mount CD-ROM", "Detect Network Hardware" and "Detect > > Hardware", respectively. > > This is a known problem, we've run out of time to fix it, although a fix > is known. > OK > > P2) The four LAN cards have a different naming scheme > > than under my old (very much updated, but currently > > 2.6.8 based) debian. Old scheme was > > eth0 - Realtek PCI card A > > eth1 - Realtek PCI card B > > eth2 - Cisco Aironet (mounted on PCI board) > > eth3 - the on-board connection > > New scheme is > > eth0 - the on-board connection > > eth1 - Realtek PCI card A > > eth2 - Realtek PCI card B > > eth3 - Cisco Aironet (mounted on PCI board) > > - the new naming scheme is *also* there when I > > boot the installed disk! > > > > Of course I had to tell d-i to choose "eth1" as "primary > > network interface" - that's where the cable to the world > > sits. > > This is probably due to the hardware detection that is added to the boot > process loading modules in a different order than on your old system. As > long as d-i and the installed system match, we're satisfied.
Ah, I understand now. I was wondering why my two installations - the old and new one - differed on this point. But that is probably because of the /etc/modules file in the old installation - it started life in an early kernel 2.4 and is now pretty heavily populated - that must the reason that hardware detection gets result in different order on the old and new system. The hardware detection result in the new system - where the kernel itself decides the load module sequence based on hardware detection - is more natural, so the change is allright with me. > > P3) The partitioning of the disk goes just fine under debian-installer > > - but "parted" (running under the installed system) is not satisfied: > > > > "Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that > > another > > partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it > > didn't have > > the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause > > (fixable) problems with some boot loaders." > > > > How is it that d-i produces a partition table that parted thinks is > > incorrect? > > The 2.6 kernel reports disk geometry in a way that confused parted. This > should have been fixed in parted version 1.6.11-6. We use that version > in the installer, it's possible you installed an older version though. I do use parted 1.6.11-6. The message I cited is from parted 1.6.11-6. The BTS has a report (rated "minor") 250528 that describes this problem. There is no indication in that bug report that the bug is fixed. best regards -- Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefionsvej 19 spejder-e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-8230 Åbyhøj tel: +45 87 44 11 99 Denmark mob: +45 30 91 84 31
