Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI, part 2

2004-02-08 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:51:09 +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: saying: modprobe -k ini9100u . /lib/modules of the initrd does not contain any file with this name, but there is initio.o, and also all other moules loaded in

Bug#218774: main-menu retreiver selection still broken (Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI)

2004-02-05 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:34:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Funny, I'd run into this same problem 94 days ago, and I filed a bug then, but forgot about it. This is bug #218774 (main-menu). I'm tempted to fix this bug by putting load-cdrom and load-floppy[1] on the CDROM, dropping

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI, part 2

2004-02-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Booting Knoppix and having a look at the hard disk does not reveal anything suspicious (to me), maybe with one exception: when I mount the /boot/initrd.img-xxx from the hard disk, it contains a file 'loadmodules' with, among

Re: main-menu retreiver selection still broken (Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI)

2004-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
Here is what's going on. cdrom-detect fails to configure as it cannot find the drive. The user selects anna from the main menu. Anna depends on retriever, a virtual package provided by floppy-retriever, and cdrom-retriever. main-menu needs to configure at least one of these to continue, and it

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Herbert Kaminski wrote: Hi, trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ on a pure SCSI drives me crazy :-] First, the CD does not boot with standard settings, where KNOPPIX boots easily. What is the error

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:11:39 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Herbert Kaminski wrote: trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ on a pure SCSI drives me crazy :-] What scsi controller please? d-i's CD knows about several

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Kaminski wrote: Well, not only the docs, the floppy images I downloaded from links on the D-I homepage two days ago contain modules for version 2.4.22, whereas 2.4.24 is needed. The prominant links on the d-i home page are prominantly marked as being for for beta2 of the debian

install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI, part 2

2004-02-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi, still trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ on a pure SCSI system. Hardware: PIII/500, 256 MB RAM, Initio 9100UW SCSI controller, SCSI Disk 1GB, Yamaha SCSI CD writer Loading module 'initio' by hand from the

Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-04 Thread Herbert Kaminski
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:51:08 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sorry, there is no little menu after hardware detection. I immediately get the screen titled [!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules that says Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted.This probably... ...Try again to mount

main-menu retreiver selection still broken (Re: install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI)

2004-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Herbert Kaminski wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:51:08 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sorry, there is no little menu after hardware detection. I immediately get the screen titled [!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules that says Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted.This

install report: sid on i386, pure SCSI

2004-02-03 Thread Herbert Kaminski
Hi, trying to install sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/i386/20040131/ on a pure SCSI drives me crazy :-] First, the CD does not boot with standard settings, where KNOPPIX boots easily. Fiddling around with controller and BIOS settings finally