On 6/10/19 3:14 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Maybe you need to use a different initrd? There are several on the ISO. > > I see these: > ./cdrom/initrd.gz > ./hd-media/initrd.gz > ./nativehd/initrd.gz > > I used ./cdrom/initrd.gz.
Which is the correct initrd for CD-ROM installations. The other ones are completely untested, FWIW. I haven't looked, but I think there is also a netboot initrd in the debian-installer-image tarball. >> If the installation completed normally, the log would be found in the >> target filesystem... please see >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en > > ok, thanks. I don't see "/var/log/installer", so apparently it wasn't > written. Not surprising when the installation couldn't finish. >> Did you run "apt-get update" after editting sources.list? > > No, I hadn't done that, thanks. Unfortunately, it starts updating but > then appears to hang while running; I'll have to try it again later. apt can't find any packages without running "apt update". Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
