I tried debian-installer on a laptop today which doesn't have an internal CD or floppy drive. It has a CD-ROM drive connected via USB, though. I used the cdrom-image.img from http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/2003-09-08
Some things I noticed: - The screen on F4 doesn't show /var/log/syslog. Instead, it shows: tail: /var/log/syslog: No such file or directory tail: no files This is perhaps because /var/log/syslog doesn't exist in the image (/var/log/messages exists.) - I got an error about loading the floppy, namely: |An error occured while running 'modprobe -v floppy' | Something must have gone wrong. F3 shows: modprobe: failed to load module floppy And typing "insmod floppy" on F2 shows: "insmod: init_module: floppy: No such device" Well, doh, I don't have a floppy. - It said: "A CDROM reader has been found with the following CD inserted: CDNAME You can continue the install." It literally said "CDNAME" instead of using the name of the CD. I think this is because of: | db_subst cdrom-detect/success cdname "CDNAME"� Shouldn't this be "$CDNAME" ? - Also, looking through the template files, I see that sometimes a space is put before a question mark, and sometimes no space is there (ie. "foo ?" vs "foo?"). This should be unified. - Ok, the most important part... the USB CD-ROM is not recognized... It needs the usb-storage module. I worked around this problem by manually putting the usb-storage module in the image and rerunning depmod. When I boot, I can then manually insert the module on F2 and d-i will then find the CDROM. So 2 things are needed for d-i to support USB CD-ROMs: 1. the usb-modules udeb needs the usb-storage module. I will file a bug about this. 2. You need to load the usb-storage module. I did it manually, but this should really be done automatically. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
