On Saturday 29 April 2006 22:07, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Can you give me a clue on how to do that? I assume I need to
> add entries for unstable to my /etc/apt/sources.list, but
> somehow avoid inadvertently mixing testing and unstable packages
> in the rest of my system..
No. For single packages it
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:30:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 29 April 2006 01:05, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > 1. Mysterious '/etc/modules' content
>
> These are all wrong and should be either deleted or at least the ".load"
> should be removed. The best thing is probably to delete them co
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:21:17PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 29 April 2006 19:34, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
> Both this:
> > hda: hda1 hda4 < hda5<4>ata1: PIO error
> > ata1: dev 1 cfg 49: 82: 83: 84: 85: 86: 87:
> > 88:
>
> and this:
> > ata1: no dma
>
On Saturday 29 April 2006 01:05, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> 1. Mysterious '/etc/modules' content
>
> The installation left the following content in the /etc/modules file:
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file contains the names of kernel modules that
On Saturday 29 April 2006 19:34, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Both this:
> hda: hda1 hda4 < hda5<4>ata1: PIO error
> ata1: dev 1 cfg 49: 82: 83: 84: 85: 86: 87:
> 88:
and this:
> ata1: no dma
does not look good.
You may be better of trying the 2.6.16 kernel from unstabl
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:26:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> Right, made a bit of a mess with that.
> Better do:
># echo options libata atapi_enabled=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/libata
> and delete whatever file that was created because of my earlier completely
> broken suggestion.
I have finally
Further to my original report, I believe I have identified some
other configuration errors which were left by the installer
which were ralatively benign so did not notice them initially.
I'm not sure if this should be a new report or an addendum, but
as it refers to the same install it would seem
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:23:42PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > and the X server was not working - failing with
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not optn default font 'fixed';
>
> X in unstable is going through a major migration ATM and there are some
> known issues. Any issues are outsid
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 02:20, Frans Pop wrote:
> Hmm. Actually, I think I've read that modprobe.conf overrules anything
> that is in /etc/modprobe.d...
> Could you check if that is the case if you use the second method? Is
> there a file (maybe empty) /etc/modprobe.conf that could overrule what
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:20:06AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:42, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > But the modprobe.d method doesn't work on my system for installation or
> > post installation, and I think there is a good chance the two issues
> > are be related.
>
[snip]
> In o
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 01:42, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> But the modprobe.d method doesn't work on my system for installation or
> post installation, and I think there is a good chance the two issues
> are be related.
This is the code that parses the option you pass as a kernel option:
if [ -n "$PA
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:47:36AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 00:12, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > Actually I should have mentioned that I had tried correcting
> > the syntax in modprobe.d. I had changed /etc/modprobe.d/libata to
> > "options libata atapi_enabled=1"
> > which no
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:17:36PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:49, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > I suppose 'change your hardware to something better supported' is
> > always going to be a possible solution to an installation problem,
> > but won't be much help to the next person
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 00:12, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Actually I should have mentioned that I had tried correcting
> the syntax in modprobe.d. I had changed /etc/modprobe.d/libata to
> "options libata atapi_enabled=1"
> which no longer produces a syntax warning, but I still get
> "ata1(0): WARNI
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:26:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 20:04, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > # echo "libata.atapi_enabled=1" >/etc/modutils.d/local
> > >
> > > This file was supposed to be created by the installer, but there was
> > > an error in the code.
> >
> > Still no lu
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 20:04, Frans Pop wrote:
> > # echo "libata.atapi_enabled=1" >/etc/modutils.d/local
> >
> > This file was supposed to be created by the installer, but there was
> > an error in the code.
>
> Still no luck - are you sure about the directory? I had no
> /etc/modutils.d exitin
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:04:43PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> Many of the old 10Mbit hubs didn't handle speed and/or duplex
> negotiation as well as modern specs require.
>
> Is it possible that the installer's driver software (or the associated
> configuration files) are less sophisticated
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 21:49, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> I suppose 'change your hardware to something better supported' is
> always going to be a possible solution to an installation problem,
> but won't be much help to the next person who tries the same
> combination.
Well, if you can find out why d
On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
The Realtek device is a 10/100 UTP interface, which was connected to
a 10Mb hub, which failed to work also.
It was not till I connected to a 10/100Mb hub that the network
started to work for the Debian install, so I suspect it was not
supporting
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Subject: Re: Bug#363331: installation-reports
Date: Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:38
From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Frans,
Thanks for acknowledging my report...
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:23:42PM +020
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 16:12, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Initial attempt to install using Etch Beta 2 Install image failed to
> detect the SATA DVD-RAM drive, even following the workaround
> instructions at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto
Strange.
> Switchi
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: Boot from netinst install CD
Image version: Debian etch installation CD-ROM, built 20060409
Date: Mon Apr 17 08:55:00 GMT/BST 2006
Machine: Fujitsu LifeBook P7120 Notebook
Processor: Intel Pentium M Processor ULV 753 (1.2 GHz, 2M L2 Cache)
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