Re: unable to finish debian-installer
Op 08-12-14 om 22:46 schreef Geert Stappers: Okay. This is from the original posting: I went into chroot /target and installed aptitude, the kernel and grup-pc, but grub-install failed, because of no devices present. My guess is that in the chroot the mount command will *not* show sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=62683,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) My advices is to exit the chroot, mount at least /dev in /target/dev and re-enter the /target chroot. Unfortunately, i removed /target/* so i had a clean startpoint. But now the partitioner fails to end (or fails to show a dialog) so i can't get anything on target again. I have to kill the process, because on terminal 1 no dialog is shown. See the last lines of the log of partman: /bin/partman: *** /lib/partman/init.d/25md-devices: *** /lib/partman/init.d/30parted: *** /lib/partman/init.d/35dump: *** /lib/partman/init.d/49md: *** /lib/partman/init.d/50biosgrub: *** /lib/partman/init.d/50lvm: *** /lib/partman/init.d/50lvm: *** /lib/partman/init.d/52crypto: *** /lib/partman/init.d/70update_partitions: *** /lib/partman/init.d/80autouse_swap: *** /lib/partman/display.d/10initial_auto: *** /lib/partman/display.d/50initial_auto_raid: *** /lib/partman/display.d/55initial_auto_raid_fs: *** /lib/partman/display.d/80manual_partitioning: *** /lib/partman/choose_partition/20auto/choices: *** /lib/partman/choose_partition/25md/choices: *** /lib/partman/choose_partition/30lvm/choices: *** /lib/partman/choose_partition/35crypto/choices: *** /lib/partman/choose_partition/60partition_tree/choices: *** /lib/partman/undo.d/30parted: *** How can i get a minimal working target again (with apt-get installed)? FYI, I have access to usb and wget to get extra files if needed. Regards, Michiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5486bc80.6030...@gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer [solved]
Thank you, Geert and Anthony for your time. I solved it by following these instructions: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apds03.html /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch i386 wheezy http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/debian/ mount -o bind /dev/ /target/dev LANG=C chroot /target /bin/bash editor /etc/fstab mount /proc dpkg-reconfigure tzdata aptitude install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales aptitude install console-data dpkg-reconfigure console-data aptitude install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae aptitude install grub-pc passwd useradd jan passwd jan aptitude wget apt vim gzip bzip2 aptitude usbutils sudo aptitude acpi-support cpufrequtils acpi powertop acpid apmd pcmciautils pm-utils anacron avahi-autoipd and more packages, mostly from ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-standard. Crossed my fingers and rebooted. I have a console login with root and with user jan. I havea minimal system with wget and apt-get working. Thank you, Michiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5486de11.5060...@gmail.com
unable to finish debian-installer
Dear list, I'm trying to install debian on an old laptop (compaq armada 1750). It was running Windows 2000. I have no option of booting from an other media except the harddrive. So i used the win32-loader.exe to start the install. The install process went fine up to installing extra software. When installing extra software the progress bar remained at 1%. The log showed an error regarding no aptitude found. Probably the installer went wrong earlier. I saw several entries of 'apt-install or in-install' already running. I re-downloaded the installer-components, detect network again, did partition again but no luck. I went into chroot /target and installed aptitude, the kernel and grup-pc, but grub-install failed, because of no devices present. After that i did a lot more, basically just screwing the installer up i think. Problem: Can't finish the installer with a working minimal environment (kernel and grub installed). And i have no way of booting another media, because windows has been erased. But i'm still in the debian-installer (text) environment. Are there any options, to get to a minimal install? I think it should be possible, but how... Hopefully i can provide additional extra info if needed. With kind regards, Michiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5485b86c.4060...@gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer
Which version of Debian are you attempting to install. And with which version of the installer did you use (direct link to the URL/file you used/downloaded). Also can you confirm the specs of the laptop. (i read something like a PII with 64MB of ram?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALoKiCpd5=57tq1htxdkkqpjtft1dnugv-ddw1olwd1d+oq...@mail.gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer
Op 08-12-14 om 15:50 schreef Anthony F McInerney: Which version of Debian are you attempting to install. And with which version of the installer did you use (direct link to the URL/file you used/downloaded). http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/tools/win32-loader/stable/win32-loader.exe I used the text installer. I tried to install wheezy, put somewhere a long the line it changed to jessie Also can you confirm the specs of the laptop. (i read something like a PII with 64MB of ram?) Pentium II 333 mhz with 192 MB of ram Ati 3d Rage LT pro videocard 6 gb HDD Regards, Michiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5485bc9a.8090...@gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer
I'm not familiar with how this installer works. However if no one else responds with some useful commands to type, i can run a vm and check how it works out. I'd be curious how you went from wheezy to jessie within the installer. I'd also wonder what happens at the moment if you go back through the menu from the beginning now and checked the console (alt+f4) assuming you can do that in this installer, what the error message you are currently facing, ie can you not just reformat the drive and go again from within the menu? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALoKiCpKiHwoghL_0E68M+P0mRWjnn7c9zFqYB7ATZoUEG10=q...@mail.gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer
Op 08-12-14 om 16:05 schreef Anthony F McInerney: I'm not familiar with how this installer works. However if no one else responds with some useful commands to type, i can run a vm and check how it works out. I'd be curious how you went from wheezy to jessie within the installer. I'd also wonder what happens at the moment if you go back through the menu from the beginning now and checked the console (alt+f4) assuming you can do that in this installer, what the error message you are currently facing, ie can you not just reformat the drive and go again from within the menu? ## choose language no problems (lang = en, location = nl ## configure the keyboard three lines on console: (us keyboard) INFO: meu item 'console-setup-udeb' selected /etc/console-setup is not writable. no files will be saved there gzip is not accesible, will not sace cached keyboard map ## select keyboard layout 10 lines, no errors, i used kernel keymap ## detect network hardware INFO: meu item 'ethdetected' selected ## configure the network i get an ip from my router (192.168.1.44) ping google.nl - 0% packet loss ## choosing mirrors: When choosing a mirror (and debian-release wheezy) i get a whole list of releases followed by | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):' And then: Anna-install: Installing jessie support main-menu[...] (proces:.) unknown udeb jessie-support ## Downlaod installer components INFO: meu item 'download-installer' selected anna[26004] : sed : can't open 'dev/fd/4': no such sile or directory anna[26004] : sed : can't open 'dev/fd/4': no such sile or directory net retriever: gpgv: net retriever: signature made sat oct 18 10:37:18 2014 UTC using RSA key id 65 [truncated] net retriever: gpgv: net retriever: Good signature from wheezy stable release key: net retriever: anna[26004] : sed : can't open 'dev/fd/4': no such sile or directory anna[26004] : sed : can't open 'dev/fd/4': no such sile or directory anna[26004] : sed : can't open 'dev/fd/4': no such sile or directory For mirrors i switched several times to wheezy or jessie, but log is the same. previously, i had installed the 'install from ssh' option, but that one is now missing. now i installed the detect cd-rom to see if it used wheezy or jessie, but i cant see that from this option. ## user setup: no problems, old values were filled in. ## free memory: no problems ## setup clock no problems using ntp. clock adjust with 0.33 seconds - confirms i have an internet connection This is it for now. I have to make dinner. Will continue tomorrow. Where can i solve the release/mirror conflict? Regards, Michiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5485c8e8.3010...@gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer
Ok just for those following this, i've downloaded the winloader from the location given, popped a virtualboxVM up with windows 2000 sp4. 196MB ram, 6gb hdd, and installed debian Wheezy in normal mode just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CALoKiCrScKkkq+yAiA=OG53PDOG1B7JGhhcDrFRR=09a3xs...@mail.gmail.com
Re: unable to finish debian-installer
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 05:19:36PM +, Anthony F McInerney wrote: Ok just for those following this, i've downloaded the winloader from the location given, popped a virtualboxVM up with windows 2000 sp4. 196MB ram, 6gb hdd, and installed debian Wheezy in normal mode just fine. Okay. This is from the original posting: I went into chroot /target and installed aptitude, the kernel and grup-pc, but grub-install failed, because of no devices present. My guess is that in the chroot the mount command will *not* show sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=62683,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) My advices is to exit the chroot, mount at least /dev in /target/dev and re-enter the /target chroot. My websearch on 'mount -t /dev/ /target/dev' did bring me to https://www.reox.at/apu1c/ where you read mount -o bind /dev/ /target/dev in context. Feel free to rapport your milage. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141208214623.gz3...@gpm.stappers.nl
