On Wednesday 21 December 2005 20:58, Bob Tracy wrote: > First reboot following base system install failed because SRM attempted > to boot from previous boot device by default (the CD-ROM drive). Was > able to interrupt SRM boot (cntl-C) and perform default boot from first > hard disk, after which everything went smoothly.
This apparently is a known issue for Alpha. I am told it is very hard to get the mapping Linux device names to SRM device names right. > Partitioning process was OK, but cumbersome. Although the needed > information is probably in the release notes and/or installation > manual, it would have been useful to have the partitioning application > provide minimum and suggested partition sizes based on configured mount > points. Hmm, didn't you use the "guided partitioning feature". This should set sane default sizes for different partitioning schemes [1] > Since this was my first Debian installation, I assumed Debian > couldn't possibly be any more bloated than RedHat/Fedora and/or > Mandriva, and everything worked out fine :-). With the benefit of Sane assumption :-) > hindsight, I would have made my "/" partition slightly bigger so as to > support additional kernel module directories and such in "/lib". The guided partitioning could have resulted in the same problem. I think we have improved this for Etch versions of the installer. Thanks for your installation report. Cheers, FJP [1] Only if you can format a full disk or have continuous free space available though. It is however possible to first free up space and then use guided partitioning to set it up.
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