Bug#270339: No option to install via NFS or local filesystem
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:15:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: - During partitioning, the new /home partition got ID 7 although I freed ID 5 shortly before by deleting an old partition. This is IMHO good default behaviour, but in expert mode maybe some people would like to assign partition numbers by hand. A reasonable wishlist item.. I think we can not provide this unless partman relies on the particular implementation of the various disk labels in parted. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#270339: No option to install via NFS or local filesystem
Hello, [install methods NFS or from local drive] I doubt we're going to have time to support either of these install methods for the sarge release. Although somone is welcome to prove me wrong. I'll gladly spend a pizza on this :-) I think the best way to install in your situation is to boot from floppy or network, and let the installer download everything over the network from a Debian mirror. That is what I finally did. Fortunately, I have access to a LAN (but I bet there are other laptop users out there who have not... maybe they join in with spending pizzas...) I'm mildly interested in supporting installs _to_ nfs, but will not be working on it until after sarge is released. I don't really see any benefit in using nfs to download files; a web server is not hard to set up. Well... many (?) people have NFS, but no need for a private webserver... - The region selection option in the main menu is only available if install drivers from floppy has been selected and a driver floppy (either cdrom or net) has been loaded; this seems a bit strange. Yes, a known problem, but not a big enough deal to have been fixed. Mainly because so few people can do an install without the network drivers floppy. Anyway, what is the purpose of this option? Does this only affect the installer, or does it influence the installed files? Since the time zone configuration menu is still in place, I could not quite figure this out, and the installation itself seems to work well without region selection. - ping is not available on the console when setting up the network; this makes it a little hard to figure out whether the network has been configured properly if downloading packages fails. Use wget. Would it be reasonable to alias ping as wget --spider? Just as a little help to point unexperienced people like me in the right direction... - In the screen prior to Harddisk partitioning there is one word too much (..Linux won't know anything nothing about the modifications...) I don't know what screen you mean, and I cannot find Linux won't know anything nothing anywhere in our source tree. Can you tell me the title of the message and its complete content? Sorry; although I tried several times, I did not get to see this message again. Strange... If you search the source tree again, best search for anything nothing or Linux won, not more (I hope there were no typos in this message that prevent you from finding it). Unfortunately, I do not recall the full message; maybe it appeared due to the strange partitioning scheme I originally had on the harddisk. If I see the message again, I will notify you immediately. BTW, in my most recent installation, the first attempt to download the release file as well as the installer components from ftp.de.debian.org failed (as always) because of a timeout. The second attempt always works without problems. I really think this is not due to a network failure, but something that is wrong with the installer. If this is really the case, it would be nice to have a shorter download timeout. Greetings Best regards, Jan PS: with the installed system (kernel 2.4.27-686), I am having trouble getting DMA to work (hdparm says HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted). If you are interested, I will keep you informed on this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#270339: No option to install via NFS or local filesystem
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: rc1 (20040801 from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc1/images/floppy/) uname -a: Linux sheratan 2.4.26-1-386 #2 Sat May 1 16:31:24 EST 2004 i686 unknown Date: 6. Sept. 2004 Method: floppy Machine: IBM Thinkpad X22 with UltraBase-Floppy Processor: PentiumIII/800 Memory: 128MB Root Device: IDE (/dev/hda) Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2584 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 646 4883728+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 6471034 2933280 83 Linux (/) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part310351099 491400 82 Linux swap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part411002478 10425240f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part520182275 1950448+ 83 Linux (not mounted) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part622762478 1534648+ 83 Linux (not mounted) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part711001487 2933217 83 Linux (/home) Partition table entries are not in disk order Output of lspci and lspci -n: (lspci is not available; cat /proc/pci shows this:) PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 2). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd000 [0xdfff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 2). Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 29, function 0: USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x1800 [0x181f]. Bus 0, device 29, function 1: USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x1820 [0x183f]. Bus 0, device 29, function 2: USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x1840 [0x185f]. Bus 0, device 30, function 0: PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 65). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=4. Bus 0, device 31, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 1). Bus 0, device 31, function 1: IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x1860 [0x186f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x1000 [0x13ff]. Bus 0, device 31, function 3: SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x1880 [0x189f]. Bus 0, device 31, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0x1c00 [0x1cff]. I/O at 0x18c0 [0x18ff]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe7ff]. I/O at 0x2000 [0x20ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc010 [0xc010]. Bus 2, device 3, function 0: CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 128). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=168. Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=5. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x5000 [0x5fff]. Bus 2, device 3, function 1: CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (#2) (rev 128). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=168. Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=5. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x5010 [0x50100fff]. Bus 2, device 5, function 0: Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 1). IRQ 11. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=252.Max Lat=14. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0201000 [0xc02010ff]. I/O at 0x7440 [0x7447]. I/O at 0x7000 [0x70ff]. Bus 2, device 8, function 0: Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 65). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc020 [0xc0200fff]. I/O at 0x7400 [0x743f]. Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked:[0] Configure network HW: [0] Config network: [0] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [E/0] * Detect hard drives: [0] Partition hard drives: [0] Create file systems:[0] Mount partitions: [0] Install base system:[E/0] * Install boot loader:[0] Reboot: [0] Comments/Problems: Originally, I intended to boot this Laptop from floppy and access the install
Bug#270339: No option to install via NFS or local filesystem
Jan Harnisch wrote: Originally, I intended to boot this Laptop from floppy and access the install DVD inside my desktop PC via NFS (the Laptop does not have any drives installed; only a floppy drive in the UltraBase). Unfortunately, I had to see that there is apparently no way to access a NFS server (unless, maybe, via TFTP boot, but here I needed to rely on existing infrastructure). Alternatively, I would have had the possibility of copying the installation files into an unused partition, but there also seems to be no way of telling the installer where to find them. Please, pleeease teach the installer how to use NFS or local drives... Thankyouthankyouthankyou. I doubt we're going to have time to support either of these install methods for the sarge release. Although somone is welcome to prove me wrong. I think the best way to install in your situation is to boot from floppy or network, and let the installer download everything over the network from a Debian mirror. Alternatively, use the hd-media method to boot from an existing partition and load files from an iso image on it. I'm mildly interested in supporting installs _to_ nfs, but will not be working on it until after sarge is released. I don't really see any benefit in using nfs to download files; a web server is not hard to set up. - The region selection option in the main menu is only available if install drivers from floppy has been selected and a driver floppy (either cdrom or net) has been loaded; this seems a bit strange. Yes, a known problem, but not a big enough deal to have been fixed. Mainly because so few people can do an install without the network drivers floppy. - ping is not available on the console when setting up the network; this makes it a little hard to figure out whether the network has been configured properly if downloading packages fails. Use wget. - In the screen prior to Harddisk partitioning there is one word too much (..Linux won't know anything nothing about the modifications...) I don't know what screen you mean, and I cannot find Linux won't know anything nothing anywhere in our source tree. Can you tell me the title of the message and its complete content? - During partitioning, the new /home partition got ID 7 although I freed ID 5 shortly before by deleting an old partition. This is IMHO good default behaviour, but in expert mode maybe some people would like to assign partition numbers by hand. A reasonable wishlist item.. - When I did the install for the first time, I did not install a bootloader, but tried to boot again with the floppy by using the root=/dev/hda2 parameter. This option is ignored and the system boots straight into the installation again. If there is still room left on the floppies, maybe it would be nice to have a rescue mode or something. There is no room left on the floppies. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
