Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Harald Dunkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm despreately waiting for a new netinst image. So do I. All my efforts for building something I could test myself were unfortunately unsuccessful. I only managed to break build/Makefile for a few hours, indeed, because I stupidely commited changes I

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-24 Thread Harald Dunkel
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Harald Dunkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm despreately waiting for a new netinst image. So do I. All my efforts for building something I could test myself were unfortunately unsuccessful. Its there. http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/. Hooray. Happy

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-22 18:10]: Found it. But I could not pass the DHCP entry in the main menu, even though I manually called udhcpc, and ifconfig showed me that I've I think if you configure a static IP address, the DHCP menu will stop complaining. At least that's what I

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 09:10: * Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-22 18:10]: Found it. But I could not pass the DHCP entry in the main menu, even though I manually called udhcpc, and ifconfig showed me that I've Manually running udhcpc does not work, because

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-23 Thread Harald Dunkel
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I think if you configure a static IP address, the DHCP menu will stop complaining. At least that's what I did when pump failed and then I could continue. Alternatively, remove /sbin/pump before DHCP is called, and it will use the other DHCP client and just work. I haven't

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: - after booting the CD in my SCSI drive I have to reinsert it in an USB drive, cause the aic7xxx driver has been dropped from initrd due to size constraints. Joey told me that this is work in progress. This should be fixed in tomorrow or the next day's images. -

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-23 Thread Harald Dunkel
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Am Die, den 23.12.2003 schrieb Martin Michlmayr um 09:10: I think if you configure a static IP address, the DHCP menu will stop complaining. At least that's what I did when pump failed and then I could continue. Alternatively, remove /sbin/pump before DHCP is called, and

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: I can't remember being asked for a driver floppy. All I saw was a huge menu to chose some of the strange special CDROM drives. Yeah, you have to get past that and to the main menu, and then when you try to load parts of the installer it will have floppy as an option.

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: PS: I found the netinst images of Dec17th. But it fails to get an IP address via DHCP and gets stuck again. Running pump on the command line I got pump: libopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The dhclient program is the one the

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Harald Dunkel wrote: Any chance to get new netinst images for i386 before the holidays? PS: I found the netinst images of Dec17th. But it fails to get an IP address via DHCP and gets stuck again. Running pump on the command line I got pump: libopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Joey Hess wrote: The dhclient program is the one the installer currently uses. We need to get pump off of the CD all together (and especially out of udeb_include). I switched to the console to find dhclient or dhcpcd anywhere in the mounted filesystems: No luck. Regards Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-22 10:24]: I switched to the console to find dhclient or dhcpcd anywhere in the mounted filesystems: No luck. /sbin/udhcpc worked for me. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-22 10:24]: I switched to the console to find dhclient or dhcpcd anywhere in the mounted filesystems: No luck. /sbin/udhcpc worked for me. It worked for me, too. But I still could not step forward in the main menu. I got a red

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: I switched to the console to find dhclient or dhcpcd anywhere in the mounted filesystems: No luck. It's there on the Dec 17th CD anyway. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-22 10:24]: I switched to the console to find dhclient or dhcpcd anywhere in the mounted filesystems: No luck. /sbin/udhcpc worked for me. This seems to be because the netinst CDs have netcfg-dhcp on them. That version was

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Harald Dunkel wrote: [snip] /sbin/udhcpc worked for me. It worked for me, too. But I still could not step forward in the main menu. I got a red screen about some network dhcp failure, even though ifconfig on the console showed me that the NIC was correctly configured. At least on mips I

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Joey Hess wrote: Harald Dunkel wrote: I switched to the console to find dhclient or dhcpcd anywhere in the mounted filesystems: No luck. It's there on the Dec 17th CD anyway. Found it. But I could not pass the DHCP entry in the main menu, even though I manually called udhcpc, and ifconfig

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-21 Thread Joey Hess
Harald Dunkel wrote: My PC has only SCSI and USB CD-drives. Using the Woody netinst CD I could successfully install Debian on my PC. But for Sarge netinst (Nov 22nd) it doesn't work. AFAIR I got some message that the CD could not be found, even though the kernel has already been loaded from

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
Joey Hess wrote: Harald Dunkel wrote: My PC has only SCSI and USB CD-drives. Using the Woody netinst CD I could successfully install Debian on my PC. But for Sarge netinst (Nov 22nd) it doesn't work. AFAIR I got some message that the CD could not be found, even though the kernel has already been

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:10:36AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: By contrast, USB CDROM should work, but has probably not gotten enough testing. Sorry, I would be glad to do some testing here, but my PC can't boot from USB. But you could move the CD from the SCSI CD drive to the USB CD drive

Re: Booting netinst from SCSI CDROM fails

2003-12-21 Thread Harald Dunkel
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:10:36AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: By contrast, USB CDROM should work, but has probably not gotten enough testing. Sorry, I would be glad to do some testing here, but my PC can't boot from USB. But you could move the CD from the SCSI CD drive