The main topic of this bug resoved to be a broken mirror. The weird
error message has not appeared for quite a while. Hence closing.
Subject:
D-I RC2 image powerpc - qualified success
From:
Clive Menzies cl
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst.iso CD (from external USB DVD drive)
Image version: lennyBeta2-i386-netinst.iso (downloaded 5 September 08)
Date: 7 Nov 08 circa 5pm
Machine: Tablet
product: ThinkPad X61
vendor: LENOVO
version: Tablet
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2
On (12/03/07 21:34), Joey Hess wrote:
Your initial tasksel failures were due to a broken mirror:
Mar 12 17:37:39 in-target: Err http://download.mirror.ac.uk etch/main
xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.1.0-12
Mar 12 17:37:39 in-target: 404 Not Found
This also resulted in tasksel installing a
On (13/03/07 13:36), Joey Hess wrote:
Tasksel should have shown the list of tasks and not gotten near the code
in question unless you removed a task or added a new task. I suspect it
might be outputting other stuff as well, even if it's not visible once
the UI is closed.
script
tasksel
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: Netinstall
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2007-03-12 16:00
Machine: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi
Processor: AMD64 3400+
Memory: 512Mb
Partitions:
Disk
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: Netinstall
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
Date: 2007-03-12 18:00
Machine: PowerMac G4
Processor: 800MHz
Memory: 768Mb
Partitions:
/dev/hda
#
On (12/03/07 21:10), Clive Menzies wrote:
~$ cat tasksel
u desktop Desktop environment
u web-serverWeb server
i print-server Print server
u dns-serverDNS server
u file-server File server
u mail-server Mail server
u database-server SQL database
u laptop
On (17/02/07 07:40), Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 17 February 2007 03:07, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:46:22AM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
I may be talking nonsense but would it make sense to advise people to
install sarge and then upgrade to etch until RC2
On (16/02/07 21:56), Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 16 February 2007 21:07, Frans Pop wrote:
As testing is currently unusable anyway, I've decided to start the
migration of udebs to testing, as a slow preparation for RC2.
I may be talking nonsense but would it make sense to advise people to
On (08/01/07 19:29), Clive Menzies wrote:
On (08/01/07 19:22), Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 18:04, Clive Menzies wrote:
However, if I pull the power supply and plug it back in, the machine
recovers fine except that eth0 doesn't come up; if I reboot the machine
eth0 comes
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst.iso CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Sat 13 Jan 07 c. 3pm GMT
Machine: Acer Aspire 2003 WLMI
Processor:Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
Memory:512Mb
On (12/01/07 18:21), Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:13, Clive Menzies wrote:
Comments/Problems:
Apart from having to disable autodetect of the Cdrom to get the media
to boot,
Hmm. Can you elaborate on that a bit? This could possibly help other as
well.
Was this a BIOS
This is probably not in the domain of the installer but I'm not sure
where to report this.
Following the installation, I assigned a static IP address on the LAN to set
the box up as a server. All works fine.
However, if I pull the power supply and plug it back in, the machine
recovers fine
On (08/01/07 19:22), Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 18:04, Clive Menzies wrote:
However, if I pull the power supply and plug it back in, the machine
recovers fine except that eth0 doesn't come up; if I reboot the machine
eth0 comes up fine and ifconfig shows everything as normal
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst.iso CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 7 Jan 2007 circa 7pm
Machine: Desktop Computer
product: MS-6309
vendor: Fujitsu Siemens
Processor:Pentium III
Oops!
Forgot to attach output of lspci -vnn
Regards
Clive
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Hi Frans
On (01/11/06 06:32), Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 01:16, Clive Menzies wrote:
Comments/Problems:
VFS Cannot open root device hda13 or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct root= boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VVVFS Unable to mount root fs
), Clive Menzies wrote:
On (01/11/06 06:32), Frans Pop wrote:
In general that means that the initrd fails to load the drivers needed to
access the hard disk, OR, if there are multiple disk controllers in the
system, that device names are assigned differently during the boot than
during
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/amd64/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 23:15 (GMT) 31 0ct 06
Machine: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi
Processor: amd athlon 64 / 3400+
Memory:512Mb
Partitions:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB,
On (27/10/06 06:21), Bonnie Fassett wrote:
hey, i figured out my burning error now dealing wi t h trying to start my
graphical environment. i only downloaded the base system so im not even
sure if its on there. perhaps you know the command to installing the x
environment? thanks
You can
On (22/08/06 14:23), Guy R Cuffey wrote:
Your e-mail address came up when I tried to get info about a replacement
battery for an laptop made in Taiwan model A9001. I'm trying to find a
replacement battery for it.
This is probably not the place but someone sent the following to debian
-laptop:
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: debian-testing-amd64-netinst(3).iso
Image version: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
downloaded 31/7/06
Install Date: 31 July 06 c.12noon
Machine: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Memory: 512MB
Partitions:
Hi
Having completed a successful base installation, I thought I'd add X
etc. Everytime I install stuff it asks for the disk. Commenting out
the cdrom in the sources.list makes it OK. However, a newcomer to
Debian may take a while to work it out. I guess only installing the
base system missed
On (31/07/06 20:58), Geert Stappers wrote:
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:47:36PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
Having completed a successful base installation, I thought I'd add X
etc. Everytime I install stuff it asks for the disk. Commenting out
the cdrom in the sources.list makes
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: debian-testing-amd64-netinst(3).iso
Image version: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
downloaded 31/7/06
Date: 31 July 06 20:30
Machine: Acer Aspire 1524WLMi
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Memory: 512Mb
Partitions:
Disk
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:24:42PM +0200, Jonathan Matthews-Levine wrote:
Evening, all
[Please do forgive me if this is the wrong forum to ask this question.]
I'm attempting to install etch beta 2 and my initial, do it all as
completely as possible disk partitioning scheme resulted in
On (23/12/04 16:51), Lechevalier Olivier wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i
386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux nagios 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date:
On (22/12/04 22:49), Lukas Matasovsky wrote:
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Hi,
tried to setup a new system with a two harddisks (hda, hdc) raid1 array.
Configuring raid volumes and raid device using the installer seemed to
be fine but installation of grub fails.
Tried to
On (22/12/04 17:03), Robert Goley wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Sarge installer netinst RC2 ftp.debian.org
uname -a:
Date: 11-30-04
Method: Netinstall booted from cdrom. DHCP network http://ftp.debian.org
repository
Machine: DELL PowerEdge SC420
FWIW
2.4.27-1-686-smp works
2.6.7-1-686-smp doesn't work
2.6.8-1-686-smp doesn't work
snip
Comments/Problems:
The other problem that arose was when installing the
2.6.8-1-686-smp kernel - I got a kernel panic.
I uninstalled it and tried the 2.6.7-1-686-smp kernel with the same
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 21Nov04 sarge-i386-netinst.iso rc2
uname -a: Linux Mars 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 15Dec04 19.00
Method: Netinst http://mirror.ox.ac.uk
Machine: ProServe MLS
Processor: 3.2GHz 3.2GHz Intel P4 Prescott
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 21Nov04 sarge-i386-netinst.iso rc2
uname -a: Linux Mars 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 15Dec04 19.00
Method: Netinst http://mirror.ox.ac.uk
Machine: ProServe MLS
Processor: 3.2GHz 3.2GHz Intel P4 Prescott
Ooops typo below in kernel version:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 21Nov04 sarge-i386-netinst.iso rc2
uname -a: Linux Mars 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 15Dec04 19.00
Method: Netinst http://mirror.ox.ac.uk
Machine: ProServe MLS
On (02/12/04 17:26), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed Sarge/NetInst i386. On bootup I get error 18 when Grub tries
to start. What is error 18 and how do I fix
it?
Googling for grub error 18 debian provided this:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18
Regards
Clive
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On (26/11/04 18:04), Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
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Hi,
cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set.
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm the
On (26/11/04 22:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
reassign #283142 debian-installer
thanks
Ce jour Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Clive Menzies a dit:
Package: quik
Version unknown - from sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso rc2
Apologies for the lack of the exact message but during the install, when
On (25/11/04 12:13), Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:33:23PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc
The doesn't seem to be a driver
On (25/11/04 13:16), Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:02:54PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (25/11/04 12:13), Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:33:23PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 21Nov04 sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso rc2
uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.8-powerpc-smp #1 SMP Sun Oct 3 13:24:44 CEST
2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 24Nov04 16.45
Method: Netinst ftp.debian.org (uk site)
Machine: Apple G4 AGP Graphics
Processor: dual
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 21Nov04 sarge-i386-netinst.iso rc2
uname -a: Linux Monty 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: 24Nov04 19.05
Method: Netinst ftp.debian.org (uk site)
Machine: Dell Dimension XPS T500
Processor: 500Mhz
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 1 Oct 04
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/pre-rc2/
uname -a: Linux Monty 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Method: Net install Boot off CD http://ftp.uk.debian.org
Proxied=no
Machine:
On (05/10/04 10:25), Jason Pirok wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to the list so I'll say Hi to everyone before I get started.
First off I have a ppc 6360 that once upon a time, I installed netbsd
on. I removed macos completely and I''v got myself into a bit of a
pickle.
It seems that I set the
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 1 Oct 04
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/pre-rc2/
uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2Oct04 13:50 BST (UK)
Method: Net install Boot using BootX - RAM disk
On (02/10/04 02:26), Clive Menzies wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 1 Oct 04
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/pre-rc2/
uname -a:
Linux Apollo 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2Oct04 00:50 BST
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:47:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Bug#274476: d-i rc2 powerpc install on G4
On (02/10/04 02:26), Clive Menzies wrote:
Package: installation
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 1 Oct 04
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/pre-rc2/
uname -a:
Linux Apollo 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 14 00:15:52 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2Oct04 00:50 BST (UK)
Method: Net install Boot off CD
On (12/08/04 17:27), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I'm sorry to be asking this, but unintentionally I got
somehow subscribed to this list and I don't know how
to unsubscribe.
Could somebody help? Thanks a lot
Manuel
Hi Manuel
Follow these instructions below:
To UNSUBSCRIBE,
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso rc1 Aug2004
uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.6.7-powerpc #1 Sat Jul 10 03:47:45 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 11 August 2004 circa 7pm BST
Method: Burnt iso image and booted from CD
Proxied=No
Machine: PowerMac G4
On (22/07/04 10:55), Clive Menzies wrote:
To: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to see any quik-installer messages in /var/log/syslog (tty4,
but they may have scrolled off), if I could, please.
Written below:
snip
Jul21 23:15:02 anna [3338]:DEBUG:resolver(quik-installer):mark
snip
On (22/07/04 01:46), Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:53:42AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
I repeated the install and didn't experience the display problems that
occurred first time around although the Partition Free space option
was still missing. This time I manually
On (22/07/04 07:11), Stephen R Marenka wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:31:13AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (20/07/04 10:31), Stephen R Marenka wrote:
nc -l -p 2080 -e /bin/sh
on tty2 or whatever suits.
Thanks Stephen
I used the above on tty2, which from the man page I
I repeated the install and didn't experience the display problems that
occurred first time around although the Partition Free space option
was still missing. This time I manually configured the partition table
to leave the MacOS install intact.
The quik installation loop manifested itself once
On (20/07/04 10:31), Stephen R Marenka wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:56:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:44:18PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
again tomorrow. Meanwhile, assuming I can get a network connection
what's the best way to issue the above commands
On (20/07/04 01:03), Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:03:00PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
I also tried to boot the installer (from the RamDisk option) using the
2.6 initrd.gz and vmlinux files and got the following (again I don't
know how to get this serial log and so I copied
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso 18-Jul-2004 22:56 206M
from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current/
uname -a: 2.6.7 kernel
Date: 20 July 2004 circa 10am BST
Method: Installed BootX 1.2.2 from
On (20/07/04 13:12), Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:44:51PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Configure network HW: [E] didn't auto detect the ethernet card
and couldn't see an appropriate driver on the list provided
[...]
It's great that BootX will now boot the 2.6.7
On (20/07/04 13:12), Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:44:51PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Configure network HW: [E] didn't auto detect the ethernet card
and couldn't see an appropriate driver on the list provided
[...]
It's great that BootX will now boot the 2.6.7
using 2.6 kernel) -Quik Install
Reply-To:
The installer won't install quik and displays the message:
Failed to resolve kernel symlink
/vmlinux or /boot/vmlinux in the installed system appears not to be a
symlink to a kernel image. This is probably a bug.
This is also happened using 2.4.25
On (20/07/04 15:34), Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:13:04PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
The installer won't install quik and displays the message:
Failed to resolve kernel symlink
/vmlinux or /boot/vmlinux in the installed system appears not to be a
symlink to a kernel
On (20/07/04 15:14), Colin Watson wrote:
[Please keep the discussion CCed to the bug report; that way we don't
lose things.]
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:16:54PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (20/07/04 13:12), Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:44:51PM +0100, Clive Menzies
On (19/07/04 17:39), Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge powerpc tcl.1 9 June 2004
uname -a: Linux Homer 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Could
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge powerpc tcl.1 9 June 2004
uname -a: Linux Homer 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 18 July 2004 circa 5pm BST
Method: Installed BootX 1.2.2 from http://penguinppc.org/projects/bootx/
copied initrd.gz
On (16/07/04 15:11), Kenshi Muto wrote:
To: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:11:35 +0900
Subject: Re: ssh
At 16 Jul 04 05:00:22 GMT,
John Summerfield wrote:
Is there any good reason ssh is _not_
On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote:
Hi All,
I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a
problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up
with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there
is no space left.
What is the
On (19/05/04 23:58), Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:32:38PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Apologies for asking a really dumb question but I'm trying to make a
contribution to Debian by submitting an installation report. I've
successfully installed on a G4 using the beta 4
On (20/05/04 00:59), Frans Pop wrote:
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On Thursday 20 May 2004 00:32, Clive Menzies wrote:
Apologies for asking a really dumb question but I'm trying to make a
No problem.
contribution to Debian by submitting an installation report
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/beta4/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
14 May 2004
uname -a: Linux Apollo 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 14 May 2004 c. 23.00
Method: Netinst. from
On (20/05/04 13:13), Colin Watson wrote:
clone 250007 -1
reassign -1 yaboot-installer
retitle -1 increase boot delay
severity -1 minor
thanks
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:42:05PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
[not sure about all your issues, I'll reply to a few bits I know about
Hi All
Apologies for asking a really dumb question but I'm trying to make a
contribution to Debian by submitting an installation report. I've
successfully installed on a G4 using the beta 4 installer. I've looked
at other reports and searched the debian site to see how to submit a
report but
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http://www.unixgeeks.org/
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