I'm having trouble running d-i with netinst.img via usb stick. tried to boot hd-media-image with full sarge-i386-netinst.iso. things run untill loading d-i, then i only get dots, filling up some pages in more than an hour. this is faar too long to start d-i, isn't it? need some help here.
some more details:
booting bootfloppy: kernel, initrd..... ok
"plug in USB storage device"... is already inserted at bootime. now kernel messages show up about recognized USB device as sda, but: "Partition check: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/:<3>ldm_parse_privhead(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD structure. LDM database is corrupt. Aborting. ldm_validate_privheads(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD 1. unable to read partition table"
This might be(?), cause i wrote hd-media-image to the whole device, not a partition (dd of=/dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1). When mounting this manually, i also need to mount /dev/sda instead of sda1.
Now pressing "Enter" as requested reads data from usb (controll light flickers), saying: "System: debian-installer" Label: bootable drive Date: 20031226 Loading............"
That's all, this dots keep on filling up the screen, aprox. one per second. I had this run for more than an hour, and i don't belive this is correct. Even if it would unpack the iso in it and install whole base system....
Tried that with same results on 2 old systems (workstation with p450/192mb and laptop with cel400/192mb). A third system (xp2600) faild accessing usb (filed a bug report on that).
So, what is wrong here? how to go on?
Gerhard
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