Only passing along what Joey Hess was able to work out when I wrote to the list a few days ago :) I'll be filing a bug report before I go to bed tonight -- I was a bit preoccupied with trying to get X working decently on an Epia MII-12000 :)
Three cheers for the new Debian Installer --it's rather slick when it works! Take care, -Dan C On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you were blonde, female, and weighed less than 400 lbs I'd kiss you :) > > Yes, you're 100% right... that's exactly the problem. If you're > installing to a hard disk of 100gig or greater, the Beta 4 installer and > the Testing Candidate 1 installer will fail, giving you no real error > messages, etc. > > I was able to verify this, and with a little disk-juggling, got this > working. > > I didn't see this in the BTS.... have you filed a bug report on it? I'd > say this was a pretty major problem that while easy to fix, really needs > to be corrected in TC1. > > Once again, Dan, thanks so much for your help! > > Moe > > Dan Callahan wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and > >>Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always > >>die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting > >>the installer use the entire disk). > > > > > > How large is your disk? I was running into similar issues, and it turns > > out base-installer at some point runs `df /target/` to determine the > > target disk. If your disk is large enough, the "1k-blocks" column runs > > into the "Filesystem" column, adding all manner of digits to the end of > > the filesystem address. > > > > My email on the issue is under the subject "Installer fails on > > initrd-tools" > > > > -Dan C > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
