On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:42:34PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hi all, > > Yesterday, I have tried to install a fresh Debian system on my hppa > 712/60 using the new debian-installer. Attached are my notes about this > process. In short: most of the stuff is working, and you can using d-i > on hppa. (debconf priority high) > > 1. kbd-chooser is in the mainmenu between (!) dhcp and static network > configuration > 2. kbd-chooser segfaults everytime (manually edited the status file) > imho. if something does wrong tree time, it should never displayed to > the user. > 3. anna display cdrom-checker/cdrom-detect/network-ppp during a network > installation. Hmmm. > 4. anna, only display udebs with a menuitem. So I can't install any > fdisk program (this makes partitioner unusable)
There is a bug filed on that; problem is fdisk-udeb is priority extra. Don't know what the answer is. > 5. the hardware detection always told me, I need more modules > (floppy, ide, isofs, ...) But everything is alread in the kernel > 6. palo-installer doesn't make the disc-bootable. Has worked for me, although it seems to report the standard verbose palo output as 'error ouput'. Richard > Hardware: PA-RISC/HPPA 712/60, 32MB RAM, 60MHz :) > > Notes: I have created an new lif image (which contains both 32 and 64 > bit kernels). Boot method was netboot (dhcp/tftp). > > > Bye > Thorsten > > > -- > Thorsten Sauter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

