Debian-installer-version: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/20040102/images/hd-media-image.img.gz sarge-i386-netinst-iso from a mirror of the November 11th version
uname -a: n/a Date: 4 Jan 2004 Method: I mounted the 811 MB large thinkpad IBM Deskstar into a never TP (with the help of a disk frame) as the second drive and allocated at the end a 128 MB large vfat partition. Put the hd-media-image there and then copied the netinst-iso into (BTW this method is not directly documented, only as a way to install with an USB stick. OK, it is not a big deal to figure out, how to do this with disk partititons, but for newbies not trivial. It would be better to have a chapter about doing the install with the help of an other, already installed Linux system). Installed grub to /dev/hdc, and data mined the kernel parameters from the files of the unpacked hd-media-image files (it would be better if they would be documented :). Machine: old IBM Thinkpad 560 Processor: Pentium 90 Memory: 24MB Root Device: IDE Root Size/partition table: 680 MB (to be extended later with the vfat install partition) Output of lspci: n/a yet Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [0] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: After the hardware detection, the install loads the frame buffer module (even there was a vga=normal parameter specified on the kernel line), which fails (the hardware is so old, there is no frame buffer support). This causes a loop There is no USB, and I tried to specify a nousb on the kernel line, but the hardware detection tried it... I tried also video=off - without any effect. I suggest to handle the specified kernel parameters properly, or to document it better how to use them. Regards, -- Sándor Bárány If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. -- Don Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]