On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:52:07AM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > I burned a Dec 10 weekly Etch 1 of 15 CD to try the installer. > Seems to work fine until we try the auto-partitioner. > I had already prepared my 6 GB test drive with ext3 > on hda1 and swap on hda2. Autopartitioner blew that > away and replaced it with an LVM partition. > Then it reported failure. > > I booted knoppix and prepared the drive again. > This time I said no to autopartition and it failed, > explaining there is nothing mounted as /target. > So I got a shell and made /target and mounted > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 there. > > Next it did not know where to look for install media. > Since there was no helpful message about where > the CD is supposed to appear, I installed the base > system and GRUB over the network. At every step, > the install menu wants to run that broken > autopartitioner again. > > After rebooting, the base install works, except > the apt-configure needs to be told the CD is > /dev/hdc. I notice /etc/fstab is unconfigured here. > > During package selection, I have to repeatedly > mount the CD; apt is not doing it automatically. > Tasksel hangs and I give up on it. Apparently it > doesn't know what to do when the things behind it > fail. Apparently it traps signals so I have to kill > it from the shell. Will use apt-get as usual. > Don't give this release to a newbie, they'll be > frustrated and go back to Windoze. > > This is about as generic a PC as you can find today. > P4, APIC, SiS chip set, ATA drives, one per cable. > Looks like hardware detection is hosed in the Dec 10 > Etch snapshot, resulting in no /etc/fstab. > If I knew which package that was I'd file a bug. > > Otherwise, the new base-config is a little nicer. > Thanks, folks! > > > Cameron > You might want to send this report to debian-boot@lists.debian.org (I think) so they can fix the problems mentioned above
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