Debian Bug report logs - #21709
Debian install hangs after loading base system from floppies

Package: boot-floppies; Maintainer for boot-floppies is (unknown);

Reported by: "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>

Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:03:00 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: unknown

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org:
Bug#21709; Package Debian 2 install. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>:
New bug report received and forwarded. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>
To: submit@Bugs.debian.org
Subject: Debian install hangs after loading base system from floppies
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:54:51 +0100 (BST)
Package: Debian 2 install
Version: 2.0

After installing the base system from floppies, install unpacks the base
system fine, and then hangs (blue screen with the debian 2.0 Installation
line at the top and a flashing cursor in the middle of the screen). When
the rescue disk is inserted, and the machine reset, the keyboard has to be
re-mapped (and infact, it still seems not to have installed the UK map),
the colour display option re-selected, and the swap and linux partitions
re-activated (i.e. not wiped). It then continues happily. This happened
both times I have installed. I suggest this is an important bug...

Matthew Vernon




Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org:
Bug#21709; Package Debian 2 install. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 21709@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>
To: "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cam.ac.uk>, 21709@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#21709: Debian install hangs after loading base system from floppies
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:58:36 +0100
On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 05:54:51PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Package: Debian 2 install
> Version: 2.0
> 
> After installing the base system from floppies, install unpacks the base
> system fine, and then hangs (blue screen with the debian 2.0 Installation
> line at the top and a flashing cursor in the middle of the screen). When
> the rescue disk is inserted, and the machine reset, the keyboard has to be
> re-mapped (and infact, it still seems not to have installed the UK map),
> the colour display option re-selected, and the swap and linux partitions
> re-activated (i.e. not wiped). It then continues happily. This happened
> both times I have installed. I suggest this is an important bug...

This bug was present in old boot-floppies versions, but was fixed in version
2.0.4 (1998-04-11), the one currently in our FTP archives. Which version
did you use?

--
Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es


Bug reassigned from package `Debian 2 install' to `boot-floppies'. Request was from jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


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