On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:52:09AM -0800, Owner wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Version: N/A; reported 2003-11-28 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > Target: > Dell Workstation 400 > Dual 9.1 GiB SCSI Hard Drives and Plexor CDR attached to a PCI 2940UW SCSI card > 128MiB Ram > Single PII @300 MHz > Matrox Mill II > *The bios does not recognize the scsi as a boot device* > This system has only two methods of booting: Floppy or Netboot. > 3C905C with PXE > > > Report: > Wow, this is a very nice change. I required the 3COM drivers to boot a kernel. > With the new installer it was simply a quick job of mounting the initrd, chrooting > and doing a udpkg -i net-extras.udeb. Very nice.
This sounds like a process that should be documented. Are there other udebs that should or could be handled this way? > After things got burning, I found another issue. In my situation, I need to move > the initrd as well as the vmlinux to the netboot server. So I tried the default > of scp (DOH.. This is an installer), ftp and finally nfs. Shock and amazement, > nothing worked. I was saved by doing a chroot to the target and apt-getting > ftp. It was very ugly, but it worked. wget is in the installer. It would be nice if, when the user types ftp, the response could be 'Try wget'. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
