yeah, sorry, there are a number of ways to possibly screw this up. i've
tested the latest images (they are OK) and here are a few tips ...
On 11/09/10 08:57 PM, Glyn Webster wrote:
Okay, I've tried that, but this is now happening:
$ wgethttp://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz
$
wgethttp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
# su
at this point, first make sure nothing from sdb has been automounted
(use df to check). if it is, umount it.
# zcat boot.img.gz> /dev/sdb
# mkdir x
unplug, wait and replug the drive here (make sure it's still /dev/sdb
... if you don't wait long enough the OS won't reclaim sdb in time and
will assign sdc). you need to ensure the os is informed that any former
partitions on the drive are now gone. when you plug it back in again,
it may be automounted. in that case, you don't need the mount command
below (and probably don't need to even be root):
# mount /dev/sdb x
# cp debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso x/
cp: writing `x/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso': No space left on device
it's conceivable the netinst was accidentally made too large, but i'll
check that for you ...
And this does this look right?
yes, in fact, it does. there should be no partition table ...
Disk /dev/sdb: 3999 MB, 3999268864 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbb0eb409
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
right. it is *not* a partition table. the whole drive is now used as a
filesystem.
as for whether the netinst should fit? i just now nabbed the current
boot.img.gz and netinst image and verified they are both fine:
sy...@shade:~$ df -h /dev/sdb
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 239M 214M 26M 90% /media/Debian Inst
sy...@shade:~$ ls -lh downloads/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 synrg synrg 191M Sep 12 06:35
downloads/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
I copied the image to /media/Debian\ Inst/, umounted the drive,
rebooted, and the installer seemed to start just fine (both text &
graphical).
Ben
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