Still issues with Woody installer / Kernel 2.4.17

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hi

After trying kernel 2.4.17, I've encountered some things I didn't with kernel
2.4.9. (Using boot-floppies 3.0.19)


1.  First thing is, that it is not possible to execute the point "Initialize a
Linux Partition" with an already valid / partition (valid, not mounted!!) (means: I
once came as far as after the reboot with the 2.4.9 kernel, and from then I
have a valid / partition). After selecting this point in the menu, the screen goes
white, and the installer system restarts!

On console 3 I could read:

    Mar 3 ... (none) user.info init: Process '/sbin/udbootstrap' (pid 140)
exited. Scheduling it for restart

    Mar 3 ... (none) user.info init: Starting pid 146, console /dev/console:
'/sbin/udbootstrap'

Well, if it would work with a clean drive, only partitioned by hdtoolbox and
without any ext2 formatted partitions on it, I don't know. But I definitely
hope so, otherwise I would again be stuck in installing Debian :(

To come a bit furthter in the installation process I then fearlessly mounted the
old root partition. But before the download of the base system started, the
installer warned me not to do an installation on a partition which already
contains an installed system, and I should restart from the scratch. Well, how
could I, if am not able to reformat the / partition..

And oh, btw. it really seems to be a kernel 2.4.17 issue, as with kernel
2.4.9 I can initialize the partition problemfree!

Should I report a bug against the boot-floppies concerning this problem? y /
n:


2.  When the installer restarts, it starts in the current console the user is
in. For example, when I change to console 3 shortly after selecting this ominous
"Initialize a Linux Partition" menu point, it will start in console 3 (quite
practical to see the kernel output on console 1 [I am using -v ;) ]).
Otherwise, if I change to console 2 and the installer systems starts there,
this is quite a bad idea, because on console 2 no keyboard entry can be done
(console 2 is the one in which a shell could be started by pressing enter
during the installation). Well, now is this a bug or a feature?

Should I report a bug against the boot-floppies concerning this problem? y /
n:


3.  I've encountered a minor translation mistake in the german installation welcome
message (the requester "Version-Info"). I could hunt it down in
http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/messages/de/release_notes.
Obviously, there haven't been any changes to this docuement since 14 months,
and I don't think it's nice to already have an orthographic mistake right on
the first requester you see of an installation. So,

Should I report a bug against the boot-floppies concerning this problem? y /
n:


Well, that's it for this time! Concerning the dhcp config of the network: it
worked like a charm! Thanks again to Michel!! Although I then got (repeatedly)
stuck with a corrupt bsdmainutils during the download  of the base system.. :(

-- 
All the best,
Andi