Your message dated Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:20:22 +0100
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and subject line #552787 [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55] unable to install
lenny from daily
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Package: installation-reports
Version: [i386][squeeze][20091026-21:55]
Severity: normal
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-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: network
Image version:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/
20091026-21:55
Date: 2009-10-27 +1100
Machine: dell poweredge 2950
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O] *
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
PXE boot of the i386 netinst.
I was able to boot the installer and progress through an install of 'squeeze'.
I had to add the bnx2 firmware to the initrd, as per
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware
but otherwise the installer was working ok.
However what I want to do is install 'lenny', using some features in the
'squeeze' installer. I thought this was supposed to be possible.
What happens, though, is the installer stops dead in its tracks with:
Oct 27 15:27:10 anna[4985]: WARNING **: no packages for kernel in archive
I preseeded the installation, with "suite=lenny" in the boot line.
The installer reads all the preseeding files and detects the desired
suite and codename correctly.
But then it appears to try to load kernel modules from the 'lenny' part
of the repository rather than 'squeeze'.
I've attached the full syslog, gzipped. Happy to test changes as I would
like to get this working.
Cheers
Vince
lenny-via-squeeze.syslog.gz
Description: Binary data
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> Found the problem, which is documented but it's somewhat difficult
> to parse. This change in my preseed file fixed the issue:
> - d-i mirror/udeb/suite string lenny
> + d-i mirror/udeb/suite string testing
This is not a bug. If you had not set this at all, then the installer would
just have done the correct thing. By setting it to a value (and thus
overriding the correct default set at build time) that does not match
which suite the installer was built from, you broke things yourself.
Closing your report.
Cheers,
FJP
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