Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: beta3 netinst, with special pcmcia boot disc from joeyh uname -a: Linux blackbird 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Mar 30 21:46:18 PST 2004 Method: boot from netinst CD
Machine: Sony Vaio SR-17 Processor: PIII 700MHz Memory: 192M Root Device: /dev/hda2 (20Mb internal IDE) Root Size/partition table: 5.1G root, 90M /boot Output of lspci: (available upon request, need to install another system to capture it) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [E] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: This laptop has one pcmcia slot: which means I can have the cdrom plugged in, or the network card, but not both at once. I found in a couple of tries that I had to select "other" for networking, and skip the two networking steps, in order to install the base system. (I tried telling it what module to use, and I tried unplugging the cdrom and plugging in the network card; both confused or froze the installer.) The base system installed, I rebooted with CD unplugged and network card plugged in, and now no network was configured. base-config doesn't ask any networking questions, just says the system does not seem to be connected to the internet. I can't install packages from the CD, because it wants the wrong CD name (apparently that's a known bug in beta3), but I can't install from the network, or add security.debian.org to the sources list, because it's convinced I have no network. Could something be added to the installer stage after the first reboot to ask again about a network? (Or perhaps use hotplug on a system that has pcmcia, but that may be a lot to ask from a minimal base system.) Failing that, could the initial base system install have a category for "pcmcia network/configure later"? Even if I had to choose the network driver[s] manually, that would help as long as it didn't complain if that hardware wasn't currently there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
