Steven Augart wrote:
Debian-installer-version: Sarge 100 MB installer, titled "Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" -- Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 CD". Downloaded on April 8, 2004.
From what URL?
Unless the page http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ has changed in the past week, the URL I used was: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
The exact time of download was: apr 7 15:07 (US Eastern Time, 4 hours before GMT).
Here is the timestamp on the file and its md5 sum:
@bilbo: ~/Debian/Sarge-Beta3 $ dir sarge-i386-netinst.iso 111796 -rw-rw-r-- 1 augart augart 114360320 mar 15 16:04 sarge-i386-netinst.iso @bilbo: ~/Debian/Sarge-Beta3 $ md5sum !$ @bilbo: ~/Debian/Sarge-Beta3 $ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso 28d99f557e72a50bcc6e4c277851294e sarge-i386-netinst.iso @bilbo: ~/Debian/Sarge-Beta3 $
The installation worked OK, until reboot time. Since I already had
GRUB installed on my system, I had thought I would just skip
installing the boot loader. However, this did not work. When I booted
into the newly installed system using what I thought was the rational
way, the new kernel immediately went into a panic.
Probably you needed to tell it an initrd to load.
Yes. You're right. That was the difference between the (later) generated GRUB menu.lst entry and the one that I'd hand-crafted.
In any case, it would be great to have the installer detect that the user has GRUB already installed[...]
In fact this is implemented in the latest d-i daily builds. [...]
That's great to hear. I will download a daily-build installer and try it on the first machine I tried installing Debian on, the one that failed even worse.
Upon rebooting, it is my desire to just get through the installer and leave. I am now being repeatedly prompted:
Media Change: Please insert the disc labelled 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Netinst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (200040315)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter.
I have to keep pressing Enter. That is exactly the disk that is in
the CDROM.
It sounds like you're using beta 3 of the installer, which sets up a broken /etc/fstab that cannot mount the cdrom properly. See the errata. This is fixed in the daily builds.
Short of re-installing Debian using a new installer, I am not sure how to correct this. I added this entry to /etc/fstab:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom0 udf,iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
and tested it. Looked fine; I could automatically mount and unmount /cdrom0 and navigate around the file system on it.
But when I restarted "aptitude" and typed "g" to get the packages that remained to be installed, I kept getting the repeated-prompting problem.
I then added the line: /dev/cdrom /cdrom udf,iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
since "aptitude" kept talking about the drive '/cdrom/'. This also failed to do anything useful. Aptitude did automatically unmount /cdrom when I restarted it with /cdrom mounted, so presumably I got the mount point right this time, but something is still broken.
If you can tell me what to do on the command-line to fix this I would appreciate it. I would really like to be able to install more Debian packages. A workaround would be if I could somehow tell the package system to stop worrying about the Sarge-installer CDROM, and just use the network. I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I haven't found it yet. I will post an update to this bug report if I manage to get around that problem.
-- Steven Augart
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