Re: installer serious oversight or on purpose?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:36:21PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm forwarding this to to appropriate list.
> 
> This problem must be particular to powerpc, accessing the cd certianly
> works on i386, since it uses the same kernel after install as it used to
> install from cd. Is something weird going on with the ppc kernel?

CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y

>From the kernel we install onto the CD... I can't imagine that it's
getting a different one from somewhere...

> corey wrote:
> > I just picked up a cd distro of Debian Linux PPC while at LWE.  I found a 
> > serious issue that keeps me from getting the thing installed, and I'd like 
> > like to know if there's a reason this exists in this state
> > 
> > Step 1.  I boot from the cd (which of course, has iso9660 built into the 
> > kernel).  Go through the whole process of setting up system, etc.  Choose 
> > my modules, and such.  I reboot, using kernel placed on hdd during initial 
> > install.

Do you mean during this particular install?  What version of kernel is
this?  Does dmesg show anything interesting?

It -should- be 2.2.18pre21, and it should be the same as what you get
from the kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-pmac package.


My guess: How are you booting?  From a previous linux install attempt,
perhaps?  You must not be getting the kernel that the CD gave you. 
Make sure to run mkofboot or ybin before rebooting (see the
installation instructions, this is underdocumented).


Dan

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Re: installer serious oversight or on purpose?

[Joey Hess]

I'm forwarding this to to appropriate list.

This problem must be particular to powerpc, accessing the cd certianly
works on i386, since it uses the same kernel after install as it used to
install from cd. Is something weird going on with the ppc kernel?

corey wrote:
> I just picked up a cd distro of Debian Linux PPC while at LWE.  I found a 
> serious issue that keeps me from getting the thing installed, and I'd like 
> like to know if there's a reason this exists in this state
> 
> Step 1.  I boot from the cd (which of course, has iso9660 built into the 
> kernel).  Go through the whole process of setting up system, etc.  Choose 
> my modules, and such.  I reboot, using kernel placed on hdd during initial 
> install.
> 
> Step 2.  I boot up fine.  Installer continues, to set up Apt.  It asks me 
> what source I want to pull my packages from (cdrom, ftp, http, etc).  I 
> select 'cdrom'.  Doesn't work.  flashing across the bottom of the screen 
> is something to the effect of "mount:  filesystem type iso9660 not 
> supported by kernel"
> 
> Uh.  Ok.  Well, maybe I fucked up my fs mod selections.
> 
> Step 3.  Restart the whole process, go back to the module selection 
> screen, check carefully within the filesystem modules to look for 
> iso9660... umsdos there, NFS, vfat, codepage things, coda...
> 
> /No/ iso9660.  :-/
> 
> That's right.  So, the base kernel installed onto HDD initially has no 
> iso9660 support, and there's no way to select iso9660 fs type from the 
> installer.  So, basically I can't install a thing, short of taking it to 
> work and installing over http/ftp
> 
> Tell me there is some valid reason why this happens?
> 
> 
> Disgruntled,
> Corey.
> 
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