Dear Joey, soon after I submitted the bug report which had been troubling me for a day or so, I found out what caused the problem. There were directory names containing underscores and umlauts (created by WinXP). After deleting or renaming these directories the installation proceeded very nicely. I already emailed this information as a follow-up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopefully this problem can be solved so that other users don't find themself in the same kind of trouble.
Cheers, Jan On Fri, 14 May 2004, Joey Hess wrote: > Jan Gl�scher wrote: > > installer started fine from usb-stick and installation proceeded until > > "Searching drinves for an installer ISO image. All modules were > > loaded just fine but then the installer says "Scanning > > /dev/discs/disc0/part3 (in My eBooks/) .." and stop at 30% scanning. > > It remains there for about 5-10 min and then starts the scanning again > > until the 30% stage. > > Ok, first you need to understand that the reason it's probing your hard > drive is because this image is also intended for installs with the iso > on a hard drive. Also, it's hard to tell what is a memory stick and what > isn't. > > On the first pass through a partition, it only looks for the iso in > top-level directory of the partiton, and the first level of > subdirectories. So it's strange that it takes a noticable time here. Is > it possible that the read from disk is hanging? Is there noticible disk > activity at all during this 10 minute delay? > > When it seems to be hung, can you switch to the second virtual console > for a shell, and run a command like "echo /hd-media /hd-media/*"? Does > this also hang? > > -- Jan Gl�scher NeuroImage Nord Department of Neurology, Bldg S10 University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistr. 52 D-20246 Hamburg Germany Phone: +49-40-42803-7890 Fax: +49-40-42803-9955 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
