On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:03:38PM -0800, Fabrice Gautier wrote: > --- Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip/> > > Just for the record I'm not using floppies on this > laptop (Did I mentionned it was a laptop ?). > > Also when using beta2 it works better. The first > hardware detection fails to load the eepro100 module, > but after I mount the CD and load the installer > module, there is another hardware detection that loads > the eepro100 module. > > So I'm not totally clear how this should work, but as > far as I understand, when I mount the CD and load the > installer modules, it should load this > nic-extra-module that you are talking about and find > the eepro100 module afterward. And if I'm correct the > user is not given the option to choose this particular > module. > > So either something change since beta2 that doesnt > load this module this nic-extra-module ot I'm doing > something differently that make it not load... > This was on #debian-boot: 01:12 < pryan> The beta2 iso is apparently missing megaraid and eepro100. 01:17 < joeyh> both are inncluded. How are you booting the installer? 01:25 < joeyh> could you please go learn how to use irc elsewhere? thanks 01:27 < pryan> joeyh: really, both are there? I booted the netinst ISO, selected "expert" and when it got to the hw autodetect it barfed up an error message about these two missing modules. 01:27 < joeyh> just continue on, let it find your cd, load the modules from it, and re-do the hardware detection 01:27 < pryan> ok, thanks 01:27 < joeyh> it's complaining because you are in expert mode, and presumably want to know about minor problems 01:27 * pryan heads back to the server room. 01:37 < pryan> joeyh: Schweet, it is working. I must say, besides the preemptive error message this installer is looking pretty cool.
I will close this bugreport in a next message. > > BTW, you can run lspci on a installed computer. > > I cant run it on the failed installation. Maybe that > should be another bug. > > > I belief in education of users, telling them > > they are flooding the people that they are asking > > for help or a fix. > > Well, I'm not asking for help. > I see it the other way: Debian people are asking > install report to help debug. I could have taken any > stable CD image to install debian, but instead I > choose to try to help out, in my very small way, by > trying out a daily build. Sorry if this was more harm > than help. > > And I dont think I'm flooding. I think its a good > practice to report logs with bug reports. I guess > there is a matter of how much is too much, but the > threshold is a matter of opinion or policy, and my > personnal opinion is that 100K is OK. I'll redo the > same anytime unless there is a policy that says who > much is too much. > But of course I probably wont anytime soon since I > finally installed Debian from a beta2 snapshot. Fine, do the thing that you are think that are right, I'm not gonna argue with you about "where was the request to send the (unfiltered) logfiles?" > > -- Thanks Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
