Andris Kalnozols wrote: > -SNIP- <
Weird! I have been doing a LOT of Woody installs recently on less-exotic machines, but with similar fundamental problems... the necessary drivers are NOT available on the "official" Debian CDs. I have found that installing the "base" system and NOT doing the tasksel or dselect steps will give me a minimal working system that I can use to boot-strap up the other stuff. You might see if that works for you to at least get something you can get a working network connection up & running. From there you can run tasksel again and get all the additional stuff. It really doesn't need to be part of the initial install...it is just there for convenience, IMHO.My initial description was rather vague. I have burned the first three CDs and the Debian installer dutifully asks if I would like to read them and index the available packages. It does this and puts the appropriate entries for the CDs into /etc/apt/sources.list. The defect seems to be with tasksel itself. After going through the menu and choosing a minimal server configuration, I get prompted to mount CD #1 and hit return. Doing so does nothing but loop at the same prompt. There was an instance during one of my many install cycles where tasksel recognized that CD #1 was mounted, but I was not able to duplicate the situation. Trying to load Debian onto another identical server gave the same results.
I have done complete installs off the Internet with the help of a couple of boot-floppies, and more recently a patched "Potato" CD that has the drivers needed already installed as a starting point then "upgrading". That is where I found out that doing only the "base" install and then upgrading was WAY smoother than trying to do an upgrade on a "full" install! The situation here is trying to get a Debian Woody system running for a Blind friend located about 1200 miles away, and the kernel needs a special patch to divert the Console video to a speech synth. This has been a most interesting experiment!
Cheers & Good Luck!
-Don Spoon-
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