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INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: 20040814
uname -a: Linux gleep 2.4.26-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 22 12:46:23 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: Sun Aug 15 18:47:13 CEST 2004
Method: cdrom install with netinst image downloaded today (points to 20040814 ) from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso

Machine: PC
Processor: Pentium2-400
Memory: 128MB
Root Device: 20GB IDE, 18GB SCSI

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [O]

Comments/Problems:

Config network failed to setup via DHCP, since my DHCP server was not configured for this machine. I tried manual setup, entered all information,
but the installer tried to use DHCP again, which failed again. So I came back to manual setup, entered all information, but the installer used DHCP...
After I setup my DHCP server to give out an IP for this host, the installer accepted my manual setup.

I have an IDE and a SCSI harddisk in my system. I wiped out the SCSI disk and installed Debian there. When the boot loader was installed, it wrote the
boot block on the IDE disk, not giving me any chance to write to the SCSI disk instead. Maybe this is the right thing, the machine boots, since it tried to boot from IDE first, but since Debian is installed on the SCSI disk, it would be nice to have the option to install grub on the SCSI disk, in case I remove the IDE disk or change the boot order. I have never used grub before, I do not see a config file, how do I tell grub now to write the MBR to sda?

I can not mount the CD-Rom. mount /cdrom can not find /cdrom. /media/cdrom
does not work either, /media/cdrom0 say the mount point does not exist. /media/cdrom is a link to cdrom0, but this does not exist, which is what
gnome tells me when I try to mount the CD-Rom from gnome.

Other than that, the install worked perfectly.

Christian


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Christian T. Steigies wrote:

I have an IDE and a SCSI harddisk in my system. I wiped out the SCSI disk and installed Debian there. When the boot loader was installed, it wrote the
boot block on the IDE disk, not giving me any chance to write to the SCSI disk
instead. Maybe this is the right thing, the machine boots, since it tried to boot from IDE first, but since Debian is installed on the SCSI disk, it would be nice to have the option to install grub on the SCSI disk, in case I remove the IDE disk or change the boot order.

When the installer says "it should be safe to install the GRUB boot
loader to the master boot record of your first hard drive." and asks
"Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?" it's referring
to the first hard drive found by the bios, which is the one that
generally boots. If you don't want to install to that drive, you answer
"No" to this question, and go on to specify the drive you do want.

I can not mount the CD-Rom. mount /cdrom can not find /cdrom. /media/cdrom does not work either, /media/cdrom0 say the mount point does not exist. /media/cdrom is a link to cdrom0, but this does not exist, which is what gnome tells me when I try to mount the CD-Rom from gnome.

I don't understand how this could happen, since the code that creates /media/cdrom0 is right after the code that creates the /media/cdrom
link.

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On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:47:19AM +0100, Joey Hess wrote:

Christian T. Steigies wrote:

I have an IDE and a SCSI harddisk in my system. I wiped out the SCSI disk and
installed Debian there. When the boot loader was installed, it wrote the boot block on the IDE disk, not giving me any chance to write to the SCSI disk
instead. Maybe this is the right thing, the machine boots, since it tried to
boot from IDE first, but since Debian is installed on the SCSI disk, it would
be nice to have the option to install grub on the SCSI disk, in case I remove
the IDE disk or change the boot order.

When the installer says "it should be safe to install the GRUB boot
loader to the master boot record of your first hard drive." and asks
"Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?" it's referring
to the first hard drive found by the bios, which is the one that
generally boots. If you don't want to install to that drive, you answer
"No" to this question, and go on to specify the drive you do want.

Oh, I seem to have missed that. By now I found out that grub is configured
in /boot/grub, I just haven't seen any way to tell grub to install the MBR
in /dev/sda, when I change the boot order in the BIOS, it obviously fails
LI...
But I guess this is not really a d-i problem anymore.

I can not mount the CD-Rom. mount /cdrom can not find /cdrom. /media/cdrom does not work either, /media/cdrom0 say the mount point does not exist. /media/cdrom is a link to cdrom0, but this does not exist, which is what gnome tells me when I try to mount the CD-Rom from gnome.

I don't understand how this could happen, since the code that creates /media/cdrom0 is right after the code that creates the /media/cdrom
link.

Sorry, no idea, thats how it looks on my box. Maybe d-i expected a SCSI
CD-Rom, while I currently only have an IDE CD-Rom?

I've been trying to setup SElinux with little luck on this box, so maybe
I'll have to use d-i again when it's screwed up completely. Anything I could test wrt the media/cdrom issue?

Christian


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