Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-09 Thread Michiel Faber
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

Re: unable to finish debian-installer [solved]

2014-12-09 Thread Michiel Faber
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

unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Michiel Faber
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

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread 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). Also can you confirm the specs of the laptop. (i read something like a PII with 64MB of ram?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Michiel Faber
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

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread 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

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Michiel Faber
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

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Anthony F McInerney
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

Re: unable to finish debian-installer

2014-12-08 Thread Geert Stappers
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