reassign 412166 lilo-installer retitle 412166 Suggests to use MBR on a strange disk thanks
On Saturday 24 February 2007 05:56, asdf wrote: > Comments/Problems: > The install mostly went OK except for a few things: > > (1) I initially selected ftp.us.debian.org as the closest debian > package mirror to use for the installation. However, when I chose > ftp.us.debian.org, the installer was unable to download the Release or > Releases file - I don't remember what the exact error message was but > it might have been that the Release file was invalid or corrupt. I > decided to change the mirror to ftp.debian.org and everything was hunky > dory from that point on. That can happen, especially with ftp.us.debian.org as that is a rotating mirror and strange things can happen if one of the mirrors is out of sync. Selecting a different mirror is the correct solution. > (2) In the final step of the installation when the LILO boot loader was > being installed, the choices for the LILO installation target were: > > 1. /dev/hdf (MBR) > 2. /dev/hde2 (new Debian partition) > 3. other choice (Advanced) > > I thought that was strange as my root partition was /dev/hde2 and I > just assumed that /dev/hde would be the first choice for installing > LILO to - and the whole hde disk was devoted to Linux as it is. > Anyways, I went ahead and overrode the choice myself and decided to > install LILO to /dev/hde2. Reassigning to lilo-installer for this. Not sure if this is really an issue or not. It will probably not receive very high priority I'm afraid as grub is the default boot loader. > (3) The installer for some strange reason decided that my system was an > SMP system (when it is NOT) and installed an SMP kernel. No biggie as I > always compile a custom kernel myself but I thought this was a bug. The 686 kernel is not a pure SMP kernel, but supports SMP-alternatives. This means that it will automatically detect if your system supports SMP or not and do the right thing. > And FWIW, a sincere thanks to all the D-I developers: D-I rocks! I've > recently installed Etch on 3 different machines but only now have I > taken the time to file an installation report. Thank you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
