Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
Dan C wrote: > Only passing along what Joey Hess was able to work out when I wrote to > the list a few days ago :) I'll be filing a bug report before I go to > bed tonight -- I was a bit preoccupied with trying to get X working > decently on an Epia MII-12000 :) It's already been fixed in the ar

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Dan C
Only passing along what Joey Hess was able to work out when I wrote to the list a few days ago :) I'll be filing a bug report before I go to bed tonight -- I was a bit preoccupied with trying to get X working decently on an Epia MII-12000 :) Three cheers for the new Debian Installer --it's rathe

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you were blonde, female, and weighed less than 400 lbs I'd kiss you :) Yes, you're 100% right... that's exactly the problem. If you're installing to a hard disk of 100gig or greater, the Beta 4 installer and the Testing Candidate 1 installer will fail, giving you no real error messages, etc.

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
... On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:54:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame > and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE. > > Two guys were talking about their cars with a mechanic. > > First guy: When I try to start my car in the morning,

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Dan Callahan
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 12:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and > Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always > die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting > the installer use

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Your a far better person than I, therefore I should leave all questions on the list to be answered by you. Sorry for my arrogance... Ralph Joey Hess wrote: I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE. Two guys were talking about th

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE. Two guys were talking about their cars with a mechanic. First guy: When I try to start my car in the morning, my radio plays an advertisment for cheerios, and then the engine

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I had simalar issues on one machine. It looks like the installer can't > read from the disk at some point. Anyway try a different/newer CDROM > drive. It worked for me. Actually, since [EMAIL PROTECTED] did not include any real error messages in his report, there is no w

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
I had simalar issues on one machine. It looks like the installer can't read from the disk at some point. Anyway try a different/newer CDROM drive. It worked for me. Ralph Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and

Re: Help! Debian-Installer Dies with various umount errors

2004-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried the Beta 4 Sarge installer, Beta 4 Net Installer, and > Testing Candidate 1 Net Install (all for i386) and my installs always > die at Installing the Base System. (I always do a clean install, letting > the installer use the entire disk). > > Looking in t