Re: Squeeze. Weekly Build CD installer 2010-11-08 is endlessly seeking a non-free firmware on fd0.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:00:04 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:31:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into native debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, help me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is possible to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot install using a netinstall image, because the installer does not support WPA and even if we will resolve firmware situation, the installation will not continue anyway. >>> >>> It should work. Or at least it is documented to do it so: >>> >>> 6.4. Loading Missing Firmware >>> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html >>> >>> Did you try by putting the firmware into USB stick (not floppy)? >> >> Yes, I did. It does not see the firmware on USB stick, looking on fd0 >> instead (or first, probably). Have tried tarball, firmware file itself, >> etc. > > How bad (and strange nobody noticed) ;-( > First, thanks for you time, Camaleón! Fortunately, I have installed Squeeze from weekly build 2010-11-15 DVD on my IBM TP R40. This time, after a pause and silent gray screen, d-i got the Intel firmware from USB stick and finally slept through. Thank god, I finally killed that Ubuntu bugware, which is endlessly warm up laptop hard drive. Squeeze installation log is attached, just in case. There is a lot of fd0 again, closer to the end. -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein syslog_install_d-i_2010-11-15_wb-dvd.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: Squeeze. Weekly Build CD installer 2010-11-08 is endlessly seeking a non-free firmware on fd0.
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:00:04 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:31:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >>> Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a >>> laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into >>> native debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: >>> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to >>> the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the >>> installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly >>> educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and >>> related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single >>> warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active >>> screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB >>> floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but >>> installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other >>> removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, >>> help me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is >>> possible to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot >>> install using a netinstall image, because the installer does not >>> support WPA and even if we will resolve firmware situation, the >>> installation will not continue anyway. >> >> It should work. Or at least it is documented to do it so: >> >> 6.4. Loading Missing Firmware >> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html >> >> Did you try by putting the firmware into USB stick (not floppy)? > > Yes, I did. It does not see the firmware on USB stick, looking on fd0 > instead (or first, probably). Have tried tarball, firmware file itself, > etc. How bad (and strange nobody noticed) ;-( Maybe you can use the pressed option (I've never tried before, just know it exists) or you can try with something like that: Netbooting and Firmware http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware Anyway... I just have noted that you wanted to use WPA and only WEP encryption is available at install time. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.15.11.51...@gmail.com
Re: Squeeze. Weekly Build CD installer 2010-11-08 is endlessly seeking a non-free firmware on fd0.
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:31:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a >> laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into native >> debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: >> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to >> the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the >> installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly >> educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and >> related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single >> warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active >> screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB >> floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but >> installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other >> removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, help >> me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is possible >> to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot install >> using a netinstall image, because the installer does not support WPA and >> even if we will resolve firmware situation, the installation will not >> continue anyway. > > It should work. Or at least it is documented to do it so: > > 6.4. Loading Missing Firmware > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html > > Did you try by putting the firmware into USB stick (not floppy)? Yes, I did. It does not see the firmware on USB stick, looking on fd0 instead (or first, probably). Have tried tarball, firmware file itself, etc. -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimt9wwoxxd9g46yb=m62l=jki3z7u+lqgqm6...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Squeeze. Weekly Build CD installer 2010-11-08 is endlessly seeking a non-free firmware on fd0.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:31:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a > laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into native > debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: > http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to > the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the > installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly > educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and > related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single > warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active > screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB > floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but > installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other > removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, help > me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is possible > to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot install > using a netinstall image, because the installer does not support WPA and > even if we will resolve firmware situation, the installation will not > continue anyway. It should work. Or at least it is documented to do it so: 6.4. Loading Missing Firmware http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch06s04.html Did you try by putting the firmware into USB stick (not floppy)? > A bit of offtopic, sorry. Dear Debian Team, would you, please, to pay > attention to the installer first? Let us find and pin up bugs, post wise > comments, suggest features, analyze patches, flood up the mailing lists > _after_ the system being installed. Isn't it an installer a thing that > has to be polished first? I've found some "issues" (let's say that way) in Debian installer for both, Lenny and Squeeze. For lenny it was impossible to get GRUB legacy installed and Squeeze was having some trouble with filesystem formatting options (already corrected, I guess). > In addition, it seems to be useful to inform a human side of the > installation process what currently is going on in any situation, not > success stories only. Jumping to tty console where messages are being logged is the common way for debugging problems, at least for an expert installation. You can also save the log for later review. Nevertheless, being a bit more verbose in ncurses GUI should not hurt :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.14.15.56...@gmail.com
Squeeze. Weekly Build CD installer 2010-11-08 is endlessly seeking a non-free firmware on fd0.
Hello, list! Have tried to install Debian Squeeze (weekly builds 2010-11-08) on a laptop with Intel 2100 Wifi card. Card's firmware is packed into native debianic non-free tarball. As explained here: http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200, it is enough to supply the tarball to the running installer on any removable media mentioned. But the installer first seek for fd0 floppy and seek forever, endlessly educating me about FAT16 file system, dangerous uppercase names and related troubles, as I have noticed at hidden F4 console. No single warning sign, progress bar or other useful info on a current active screen. As a countermeasure, I have searched my pockets, found USB floppy drive and wrote floppy diskette, plugged that into laptop but installer continue its tries for ghost fd0 and does not react on other removable media inserted in all sockets and holes. If you, please, help me to find a workaround to subdue that bad robot? Maybe it is possible to implant the firmware into installer ISO? And no, I cannot install using a netinstall image, because the installer does not support WPA and even if we will resolve firmware situation, the installation will not continue anyway. A bit of offtopic, sorry. Dear Debian Team, would you, please, to pay attention to the installer first? Let us find and pin up bugs, post wise comments, suggest features, analyze patches, flood up the mailing lists _after_ the system being installed. Isn't it an installer a thing that has to be polished first? In addition, it seems to be useful to inform a human side of the installation process what currently is going on in any situation, not success stories only. -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinvng+-u8cflupcad8m+4jti3fpdqg2qacxn...@mail.gmail.com
