Debian Bug report logs - #22472
problems with install w/ 4/26 boot floppies

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

From: Mike Coleman <mkc@sky.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: problems with install w/ 4/26 boot floppies

Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 23:49:07 -0500 (CDT)

Package: boot-floppies
Version: unknown

Hi, I tried a fresh install onto a never-used new disk on a laptop (Compaq
Aero) and saw these problems.

- I got a screen listing /dev/hda as a possible disk to partition, but hitting
  enter just took me back to the selection menu without actually invoking
  'cfdisk', apparently.  (Perhaps it got invoked and quickly crashed or
  exited.)  I was able to proceed by doing 'cfdisk' in another vt.

- At one point, the "background" screen got put into 'raw' mode (which is
  ugly, and which requires typing ^J instead of enter).  I'm not sure how this
  happened; perhaps it's related to the above.

- There's a problem with the sequencing; it never did offer by default to
  install or configure the base packages.  I had to choose this as an
  alternate.  (The first time through, I got all the way to creating a boot
  disk without this, and of course lilo was not found, etc.)

- During the modules setup, I saw some error message flash by regarding misc.o
  or sc.o or something like that.  I thought it was some kind of mismatch
  message, but I'm not sure.

I was using the boot floppies in "frozen" (the tecra versions), in the 4-26
directory.  The actual files seem to have been last touched on 5-11.

--Mike

Message #10 received at 22472@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>

To: Mike Coleman <mkc@sky.net>, 22472@bugs.debian.org, 22473@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: bugs 22472 and 22473, installation on a laptop

Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 09:01:46 +0100

On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 11:49:07PM -0500, Mike Coleman wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: unknown
> 
> Hi, I tried a fresh install onto a never-used new disk on a laptop (Compaq
> Aero) and saw these problems.
> 
> - I got a screen listing /dev/hda as a possible disk to partition, but hitting
>   enter just took me back to the selection menu without actually invoking
>   'cfdisk', apparently.  (Perhaps it got invoked and quickly crashed or
>   exited.)  I was able to proceed by doing 'cfdisk' in another vt.
> 
> - At one point, the "background" screen got put into 'raw' mode (which is
>   ugly, and which requires typing ^J instead of enter).  I'm not sure how this
>   happened; perhaps it's related to the above.
> 
> - There's a problem with the sequencing; it never did offer by default to
>   install or configure the base packages.  I had to choose this as an
>   alternate.  (The first time through, I got all the way to creating a boot
>   disk without this, and of course lilo was not found, etc.)
> 
> - During the modules setup, I saw some error message flash by regarding misc.o
>   or sc.o or something like that.  I thought it was some kind of mismatch
>   message, but I'm not sure.
> 
> I was using the boot floppies in "frozen" (the tecra versions), in the 4-26
> directory.  The actual files seem to have been last touched on 5-11.
> 
> --Mike

On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 11:52:39PM -0500, Mike Coleman wrote:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: unknown
> 
> More on that fresh install on a laptop:
> 
> - The PCMCIA alternative is kind of confusing.  For example, my laptop has
>   only one slot, which is occupied by the floppy during installation, so it's
>   not clear whether it's safe to configure it or not.  (It turned out that the
>   answer to this is 'yes').
> 
> - I think I chose not to configure the network part, and
>   /etc/pcmcia/network.opts ended up as an empty file.  It would be extremely
>   useful if the distribution template were included there (commented out
>   maybe), rather than just an empty file.
> 
> I was using the boot floppies in "frozen" (the tecra versions), in the 4-26
> directory.  The actual files seem to have been last touched on 5-11.
> 
> --Mike

Some of these bugs may have been fixed in boot-floppies version 2.0.6,
currently in the incoming queue of our master FTP archive. You may
download them from ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/incoming . Would you try
them, and report which bugs you find, please?

	Thanks,
--
Enrique Zanardi						   ezanardi@ull.es

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