AMD64 Debian Installer netinst

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

After starting this thread on debian-boot, I was gently pushed to
this list.

I recently tried to get Debian Installer going on a single Opteron
custom-built machine using the daily build of the netinst CD image
from here:

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

but I got an ISOLINUX error:

Could not find kernel image: linux
boot:

I found this thread:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/10/msg00358.html

but the resolution sidestepped the issue of the Debian Installer
ISOLINUX error.

I'd like to solve this problem and help improve Debian Installer as
well as the AMD64 architecture support in Debian, so please let me
know if I can provide any more useful information.

I had pretty good luck with the Sarge installer for amd64, so now I'm
just wondering if there is a way to help improve Debian Installer for
amd64.

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Thomas F. O'Connell
Database Architecture and Programming
Co-Founder
Sitening, LLC

http://www.sitening.com/
110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6
Nashville, TN 37203-6320
615-469-5150
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[Luke Schierer]

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
After starting this thread on debian-boot, I was gently pushed to
this list.
I recently tried to get Debian Installer going on a single Opteron
custom-built machine using the daily build of the netinst CD image
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Could not find kernel image: linux

I hit this and reported it in #debian-boot a few days ago. The
problem is that for some unknown reason, the amd64 installer is being
built without the isolinux.cfg file. They pointed me to an alternate
set of cd images, that worked. I do not recall where though, sorry.

luke

[Kurt Roeckx]

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
After starting this thread on debian-boot, I was gently pushed to
this list.
I recently tried to get Debian Installer going on a single Opteron
custom-built machine using the daily build of the netinst CD image
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Could you please provide an url to the actual location what image
you downloaed? And on what date did you download those? The
"current" is a symlink that changes every day. Some of the
problems might have been fixed already.



Kurt

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

Post by Kurt Roeckx

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
After starting this thread on debian-boot, I was gently pushed to
this list.
I recently tried to get Debian Installer going on a single Opteron
custom-built machine using the daily build of the netinst CD image
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Could you please provide an url to the actual location what image
you downloaed? And on what date did you download those? The
"current" is a symlink that changes every day. Some of the
problems might have been fixed already.
Kurt

I grabbed today's daily (2005-11-04) at around 10:00 CST:

http://amd64.debian.net/debian-installer/daily/

--
Thomas F. O'Connell
Database Architecture and Programming
Co-Founder
Sitening, LLC

http://www.sitening.com/
110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6
Nashville, TN 37203-6320
615-469-5150
615-469-5151 (fax)

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
http://amd64.debian.net/debian-installer/daily/

Which is something completly different from what you said before.
You said that you got the netinst image (100 MB). On that url
are dirrerent things available like that netboot (5 MB).
There is alot of difference for the daily builds between those
two.

Sorry, careless copy/paste. I grabbed this one:

http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/amd64/current/
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

--
Thomas F. O'Connell
Database Architecture and Programming
Co-Founder
Sitening, LLC

http://www.sitening.com/
110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6
Nashville, TN 37203-6320
615-469-5150
615-469-5151 (fax)

[Kurt Roeckx]

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/amd64/current/
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

So it seems that those image are broken, and waiting for some
other things to get fixed first. I hope it should be fixed in a
few days.

Have you tried some other images already? Like the netboot, or
the ones that came with sarge?


Kurt

[Thomas F. O'Connell]

Post by Kurt Roeckx

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/amd64/current/
debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

So it seems that those image are broken, and waiting for some
other things to get fixed first. I hope it should be fixed in a
few days.
Have you tried some other images already? Like the netboot, or
the ones that came with sarge?

I'm having pretty good luck with the sarge netinst image for amd64,
but I'm trying to set up LVM on software RAID1, and it seems to
causing problems for LILO at the point of installing the boot loader.
I can't tell whether this is a lack of knowledge on my part (and the
installer's, it would seem) in terms of how I need to specify LILO
installation, but even when I try Advanced mode to set an
installation target, I don't seem to be having any luck.

I've seen a couple of posts that imply people have successfully
configured this before, so I don't know whether this is an amd64/LILO/
LVM issue, or what.

--
Thomas F. O'Connell
Database Architecture and Programming
Co-Founder
Sitening, LLC

http://www.sitening.com/
110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6
Nashville, TN 37203-6320
615-469-5150
615-469-5151 (fax)

[Kurt Roeckx]

Post by Thomas F. O'Connell
http://amd64.debian.net/debian-installer/daily/

Which is something completly different from what you said before.

You said that you got the netinst image (100 MB). On that url
are dirrerent things available like that netboot (5 MB).

There is alot of difference for the daily builds between those
two.


Kurt