On Friday 12 March 2004 23:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > steef wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I have reported this also in the bugreports, but I get the impression > >> that that is a bottomless pit somehow. > >> > >> Using the 03/10/2004 iso image of the installer I tried to use it. > >> > >> If you just press enter on boot he cycles himself through the steps. > >> > >> Problems started in "Partition disks". They are already partitioned > >> and I don't want more partitioning. But that option he doesn't seem to > >> like. > >> > >> Then you have to select the next step manually. Went to "Configure and > >> Mount Partitions" and selected one as root. > >> > >> He then installed the base system and kernel but the latter failed > >> because mkinitrd could not determine the root device. > >> > >> Anybody have any ideas on how to get it to run? > >> > >> Hugo. > > > > recognize your first mentioned problem. indeed: the installer does not > > like too much self-initiative. a pity. > > > > on my machine i got the sarge-installer running after manually selecting > > a root partition __and___ defining the file-type manually. (this after > > ' partitioning' of course) did you do so too? i could not make that up > > out of your message. > > > > steef > > Steef: > > No, I did not partition. The reason is I want to install on an existing > partition: there is no reason to partition. I thought maybe that should > be an option there? (Kind of like Mondo: he asks too whether you want to > partition and "no" is a valid answer). > yep: i guess you are right. one or two clear steps more in the form of questions could be illuminating for an ' innocent' user. indeed one step a question if one wants to install (or not) on (one) extisting partition(s); the other to make more clear the choices one can make for filesystems: i.c. ext 2, ext 3, reiserfs.
> I can't tell whether that refusal to partition is a problem, it stops > the autoadvance of the menu but I will try defining the file type in > config and mount partitions, like you said and see what that does. allright: on my side i'll do exactly as you did on my 'exercise' hd. see what happens. > > I have reported it as problem 224758 but I am uncertain whether those > are looked at because there are so many problems reported and there is > such a big difference between beta2 and this version of 3/10/04. that is correct as far as i can judge from out here. seems to be crowded with bugs: is still in full development > > I also subscribed to the debian-boot list and reported it there as Colin > sugested but that discussion is way above my head. > that is a fine suggestion of colin, allthough that kind of remarks in me causes some (proverbial dutch/friesian) stubbornness to go on with it. > Thanks for the response. > > Hugo you are welcome, and if you wish so I' ll let you know. steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
