Bug#304834: Debian Install Reports

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Liford
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20050403
I'm considering using Linux to perform our software development.
Currently, we use Solaris 8 on Sun workstations because our customer
does the same. We are going to purchase new workstations and may go with
PC/Linux rather then Sun/Solaris. I tried Gentoo, but had trouble with
some of their packages. I am trying Debian because of your reputation
for stability and package management.
This morning I installed Sarge on both an Ultra-5 and a Dell Pentium III
PC. I am very pleased that the install went so well. The package
management system downloaded the 700+ packages of the desktop option and
installed them without a problem. That's what we need so we can develop
our software rather then fight with bugs and dependency problems.
I played around with Woody yesterday and the Sarge installation is a big
improvement over Woody. By the way, I could not get the Sparc rescue.bin
floppy to boot. Error was something about a bad magic number. I wrote
the disk first using Sun Solaris and again with a Windows PC and got the
same error both times. The i386 rescue.bin floppy worked just fine.
Attached are the install reports and logs in two files, one for the
Sparc and one for the i386.
Mike Liford
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Bug#304834: Debian Install Reports

2005-04-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:30:06PM -0400, Mike Liford wrote:
[...]
 I played around with Woody yesterday and the Sarge installation is a big
 improvement over Woody. By the way, I could not get the Sparc rescue.bin
 floppy to boot. Error was something about a bad magic number.

To debug this, it would be nice if you could send us the exact error
message; it may be meaningless to you, but it contains valuable
information which may be required to fix the issue with the floppy
install flavour.

[...]
 Attached are the install reports and logs in two files, one for the
 Sparc and one for the i386.

I didn't see any attachments. Sure you didn't forget them?

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Bug#304834: Debian Install Reports

2005-04-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mike Liford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-15 15:30]:
 Attached are the install reports and logs in two files, one for the
 Sparc and one for the i386.

I think you forgot to attach them.
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