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 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 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