Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:43:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is that the case in d-i ? No, it's not. If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:53:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:43:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is that the case in d-i ? No,

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Alex Owen
In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is that the case in d-i ? I seem to remember d-i asking me which kernel to install so I suspect this means that the d-i kernel is not installed on the target system. If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target system

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is that the case in d-i ? I seem to remember d-i asking me which kernel to install so I suspect this means that the d-i kernel is not installed on the target

Re: Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-09-08 13:00:26, schrieb Alex Owen: In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is that the case in d-i ? Right I seem to remember d-i asking me which kernel to install so I suspect this means that the d-i kernel is not installed on the target system.

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote: In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is that the case in d-i ? No, it's not. If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target system then I think that the d-i boot floppy cannot have the rescue

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread siward
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:43, Colin Watson wrote: The standard procedure is to run the installer up to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to tty2, mount your root filesystem on /target, and chroot.

Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

2004-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:00:17PM +0200, siward wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:43, Colin Watson wrote: The standard procedure is to run the installer up to the point where it starts the partitioner (by which point it still hasn't written anything to the disks), then switch to