Sam Geeraerts schreef:
Hm, in the partitioning stage the installer tells me I should use "the
old ext2 (revision 0) filesystem" (maybe same problem as Laurent
Guerby). I go back and do that.
Then it says my boot partition should be the first primairy partition on
the disk. I liked to keep what was on there, so I just continued. At the
end it tries to get a file from the mirror server, but fails, so I
choose "Ignore".
A bit later it says it failed to install 'colo' in /target/. Continuing.
Then it fails to execute preconfigured command ("echo do_symlinks = no >
/target/etc/kernel-img.conf ; apt-install
linux-image-2.6.27-libre-medan"). Next. Finished. Reboot.
PMON2000 still confuses me. I booted with wd0b and /dev/hda5. The latter
makes sense because I created a logical partition, but how does that
match with wd0b? Oh wait, I installed that Chinese Debian distro on
/dev/hda3 and that has vmlinux-2.6.27.1-yeeloong. I'd still say b!=3. My
new install on /dev/hda5 on the other hand has no kernels. /boot
contains default.colo and delo.2nd.
Anyway, it boots into a console and I can log in. Yay! What I can't do
is "sudo" and I was never asked to set a password for root.
And that concludes the story of my experiences with Robert's netboot. I
hope it will prove useful. Join us next time for more exciting gNewSense
hacking. (Seriously, join us!) Goodnight.
I just finished another install. It went fine now (ignoring that one
retry I had to do). I have a kernel in /boot and sudo works. I chose to
install the desktop system software collection (previously my only
option there was mail server) and ended up with just the console, but
that's not too bad. I could install stuff (with "untrusted packages"
warning). So the installer seems to work for me after all.
What's not so great is my bootloader. PMON only sees the first two data
partitions. I'm getting by with loading a kernel from one of those
partitions and setting root=/dev/hda5. Going to take a closer look at this.
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