On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:46:26 +0100 Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are these machines really exactly the same? Maybe different CPU > revisions? If you really want to track this down and your friend lives > nearby you can probably switch CPUs and RAM with him and repeat the > experiment? Another thing would be to install via serial console, so > you can more easily cut and paste error messages (maybe also try the > 'official' boot-floppies from ftp.debian.org). Well, some feedback after almost 11 hours of struggling with Debian and my Indigo2. I followed Len Sorensen's advice and tried removing some RAM. I tried a couple of combinations since I have 12 bars of RAM (384 Mo). None of the things I tried worked, I still got downloads errors and debootstrap would always crash. I also tried official kernel images, but it failed at the "Configure Modules" section, leaving me no choice but give up the installation. Then I tried installing Debian from the console in Alt-F2 instead of the GUI, when I got to "Install Base System". I launched "/usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch mips woody /target http://ftp.debian.org:80/debian"; since it was the server that gave me the fewer errors. Everything was downloaded and extracted, but debootstrap failed on installing, reporting a bus error. So I said to myself I should remove the last 2 difficult-to-access bars of RAM, and put on some other bars. I restarted the installation process, and everything worked fine using the command line to execute debootstrap. It gave some errors about unconfigured packages, but since I didn't know how to fix this, I rebooted anyway and booted on the kernel. I finally got the Debian login, but the filesystem was mounted read-only. A simple "mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 /" took care of it. I did a couple "dpkg -i", "dpkg --configure -a" and "dpkg-reconfigure", and now I've got a Debian system running just fine. After all, all my problems came from hardware, but now I know much more about the Debian installation process :) Weird though I had so much download issues, as my network's working OK. Thanks anyway to anyone who answered me. > "I say don't drink and drive, you might spill your drink" -- NOFX > Regards, Guido, I can see you have some great tastes about music :) -- Lucas Moulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I wish I had a shilling for every senseless killing, I'd buy a government" -- NOFX
