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Sep. 24th, 2003
Not going well...
Sep. 24th, 2003 03:39 pmDebian is still an unfriendly beast to install... it doesn't even appear to have automatic hardware detection, which Red Hat and SuSE have been doing for years.
This morning my attempts to install it have fallen to a fairly serious new problem (last night's half-dozen attempts were mostly victims of non-serious TMTOWTDI problems typical with a new distribution). This morning it keeps getting 9/10 of the way through the install, then b0rking out with a kernel panic when it loads the PCMCIA sub-system at boot... despite the fact that it does this successfully on the reboot before this one in the install process. It's done it three times now, I'm wondering if the CD got scratched when I put it away last night or something :(
Argh. Bloody technology.
Update:
Okay, this is a nice fuck-up. A security update for PCMCIA must have been released sometime overnight. Me being a good boy, I was saying 'yes' to 'use security updates', of course. When it goes and fetches the security update halfway through the install, it only tries to update the PCMCIA system without shutting it down first - no wonder it kernel panics.
The annoying bit is, it asks you earlier in the install whether PCMCIA updates should always shut down/never shut down/ask you first, and I said 'ask'... and it didn't.
I just reinstalled for a fifth time, said 'no' to security updates, and it successfully booted. I'll try putting the security lines into apt/sources later and see if it works any better with an up-and-running system rather than an installing one...
This morning my attempts to install it have fallen to a fairly serious new problem (last night's half-dozen attempts were mostly victims of non-serious TMTOWTDI problems typical with a new distribution). This morning it keeps getting 9/10 of the way through the install, then b0rking out with a kernel panic when it loads the PCMCIA sub-system at boot... despite the fact that it does this successfully on the reboot before this one in the install process. It's done it three times now, I'm wondering if the CD got scratched when I put it away last night or something :(
Argh. Bloody technology.
Update:
Okay, this is a nice fuck-up. A security update for PCMCIA must have been released sometime overnight. Me being a good boy, I was saying 'yes' to 'use security updates', of course. When it goes and fetches the security update halfway through the install, it only tries to update the PCMCIA system without shutting it down first - no wonder it kernel panics.
The annoying bit is, it asks you earlier in the install whether PCMCIA updates should always shut down/never shut down/ask you first, and I said 'ask'... and it didn't.
I just reinstalled for a fifth time, said 'no' to security updates, and it successfully booted. I'll try putting the security lines into apt/sources later and see if it works any better with an up-and-running system rather than an installing one...
Just one word...
Sep. 24th, 2003 05:46 pmSum up your opinion or impression of me in one word, leave it as a comment in this posting, and then post this sentence in your own journal.
