What error does the installer give you?
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pinkertime,
i dont understand.
the installer is a different program than what initiated the installation.
thi s exactly why you need step 7.
I can go up to point (9) included successfully. That is the installer after hard drive scan says
"Successfully mounted edgy installer ISO image."
In fact, if I come back to terminal I can browse the mounted iso in /cdrom. In the next step the installer tries to load installer components from the installer ISO, but here it fails and the error is
"There was a problem reading data from the CD-ROM. Please make sure it is in the drive. If retrying does not work, you should check the integrity of your CD-Rom.
Failed to copy from CD-ROM."
But the CD-ROM is mounted and is not corrupted because I have checked it with md5. It seems to be a problem of reading permissions.
I think to have understood why the procedure does not work for me. The installer, that is a debian installer, supports only installation from a /boot directory with an ext2 or ext3 file system (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/piper...il/000289.html)
But my /boot file system is reiserfs. Could you confirm my hypothesis?
Hi pinkertime,
The below lines are from the ./var/lib/dpkg/info/iso-scan.postinst file contained within the initrd.gz file:
# Load up every filesystem known to man. The drive could have anything.
FS="ext2 ext3 reiserfs fat vfat xfs iso9660 hfsplus hfs ntfs"
as far as I know it should support reiserfs.
Does your machine have a physical cd-rom drive with another CD in the tray?
anyone else got a clue?
Just to give you more information I add my syslog (after the iso mounting):
Dec 22 11:13:50 iso-scan: Found ISO boot/ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso on /dev/hda6
Dec 22 11:13:50 kernel: [ 129.171974] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
Dec 22 11:13:50 kernel: [ 129.195663] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Dec 22 11:13:50 iso-scan: Detected ISO with 'edgy' (edgy) distribution
Dec 22 11:13:52 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later installation
Dec 22 11:13:52 iso-scan: Base system not installable from CD image, requesting choose-mirror
Dec 22 11:13:52 anna-install: Queueing udeb choose-mirror for later installation
Dec 22 11:13:52 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'medium' to 'high'
Dec 22 11:13:52 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to high
Dec 22 11:13:52 main-menu[2757]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Dec 22 11:13:52 main-menu[2757]: DEBUG: resolver (libnewt0.52): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Dec 22 11:13:52 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for console-setup-udeb
Dec 22 11:13:52 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for console-setup-udeb
Dec 22 11:13:52 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' selected
Dec 22 11:13:52 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages in /cdrom/dists/edgy/Release.
Dec 22 11:13:52 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz in /cdrom/dists/edgy/Release.
Dec 22 11:13:52 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find restricted/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages in /cdrom/dists/edgy/Release.
Dec 22 11:13:52 cdrom-retriever: warning: Unable to find restricted/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz in /cdrom/dists/edgy/Release.
Dec 22 11:14:02 anna[10626]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
Dec 22 11:14:02 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
Dec 22 11:14:02 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium'
Dec 22 11:14:02 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Dec 22 11:14:02 main-menu[2757]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Dec 22 11:14:02 main-menu[2757]: DEBUG: resolver (libnewt0.52): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Dec 22 11:14:02 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for console-setup-udeb
Dec 22 11:20:01 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for console-setup-udeb
Dec 22 11:20:01 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Restoring default debconf priority 'high'
Dec 22 11:20:01 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to high
Dec 22 11:20:01 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' selected
Dec 22 11:20:01 anna[10714]: grep:
Dec 22 11:20:01 anna[10714]: /cdrom/dists/edgy/Release
Dec 22 11:20:01 anna[10714]: : No such file or directory
Dec 22 11:20:01 cdrom-retriever: error: No components listed in /cdrom/dists/edgy/Release.
Dec 22 11:20:06 anna[10714]: WARNING **: bad d-i Packages file
Dec 22 11:20:06 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Priority changed externally, setting main-menu default to 'high' (high)
Dec 22 11:20:06 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Menu item 'load-iso' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.
Dec 22 11:20:06 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'high' to 'medium'
Dec 22 11:20:06 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Dec 22 11:20:06 main-menu[2757]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Dec 22 11:20:06 main-menu[2757]: DEBUG: resolver (libnewt0.52): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Dec 22 11:20:06 main-menu[2757]: INFO: Falling back to the package description for console-setup-udeb
Dec 22 11:23:28 kernel: [ 707.127671] ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
Dec 22 11:23:28 kernel: [ 707.688587] ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
Dec 22 11:23:28 kernel: [ 707.702360] ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
Dec 22 11:23:28 kernel: [ 707.708107] ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
Dec 22 11:23:28 kernel: [ 707.763246] ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
Anyway, thank you for your help! :)
I'm having the same problem -- the loopback fix doesn't work for me.
My syslog says, when it tried to load my hda1 and hda2, that it "Mounted /dev/hda# for first pass" then "Failed mounting /dev/hda#".
I frankly think it's ridiculous to release a distribution where your *installer doesn't work*
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Very Cool, Ive been wanting to do this for awhile now. I will try it next time i need to do this type of install
I wish I could get to step 9 to fail. I can't even get it to load with GRUB. Whenever I try I get an error 15 cannot mount. I double checked that its the right partition and I even formatted the partition as ext3 just in case that was the problem, but nothing has worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.