Squeeze netinstall iso's broken??

stratotak · 03-04-2009, 10:29 AM

anyone tried installing Squeeze with netinstall??I downloaded iso yesterday and tried to install..but it said it couldnt find my hard drive. It gave me option list to choose driver..i tried choosing various ide and sccsi drivers..but none worked..I have tried 3 different pc's and all with same results..says cant detect hard drive..

pljvaldez · 03-04-2009, 11:25 AM

You can always try a lenny install and then dist-upgrade to squeeze. They should be pretty close right now since it's only been a couple of weeks. You might even be able to change to a terminal during install and just change the sources.list to squeeze...

farslayer · 03-04-2009, 01:31 PM

I know you used to be able to select 'expert' mode during install and you could choose what to install.. Lenny, sid, etc..

in which case a lenny netinstall using expert mode might do the trick, without the need to dist-upgrade afterwards..

Haven't tried this in a while, but it used to be an option. .

justaguynpc · 03-04-2009, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer

I know you used to be able to select 'expert' mode during install and you could choose what to install.. Lenny, sid, etc..

in which case a lenny netinstall using expert mode might do the trick, without the need to dist-upgrade afterwards..

Haven't tried this in a while, but it used to be an option. .

I know this remains an option while installing using the business card cd.

stratotak · 03-04-2009, 08:13 PM

I just downloaded lenny netinstall and unchecked desktop..and installed base..then used nano to change "lenny" entries to "squeeze"..then did aptitude dist-upgrade...but I havent read anywhere others having same problem..I could belive it was just my bad luck if it were just 1 pc..but all 3 of my pc's?Netinstall cd boots fine and all but gets to part to detect hard drives to be partitioned..but fails to find driver for it..I started with obvious choices like ide_generic and anything withe ide,,then tried scsi..expert or just regular install will just do the same..fails at detecting hard drives angive you option to select a hard drive driver..and If I remember correctly the option to choose what to install..stable,testing,unstable comes after the partitioning..and since it never makes it to that part..its not a option to do that..

farslayer · 03-05-2009, 07:47 AM

so are all of these systems new ? are they all the same motherboard ? Have you installed other versions of Linux on them in the past ?
if this still isn't working with lenny then the common denominator has to be something with the hardware..

could you grab a live CD, boot from it and run lspci and post the output here ?

stratotak · 03-08-2009, 05:58 AM

There all different hardware..Ones a desktop with a epox motherboard with via kt880 chipset...
http://www.epox.com/USA/product.asp?id=EP-8KRAIPRO
Other is a Dell Inspiron 8200 and other is a older Dell Dimension with a P4 1.4..So were talking about pc's at least 4-5 years old..and installing Debian on each has never been a problem..Wheather its was a bad daily build I dont know..I downloaded daily build on March 3 and again on the 4th..and had same issue..Haven't tried a newer Daily build...just for example here is my lspci for the laptop Im running Squeeze on ..Like I said..Its the debian squeeze iso's..I ll download the latest squueze netinstall and see if they have fixed issue..but I have had no problems in past installing any debian or any other distros on these pc's..JUst checked debian installer page and see it still a issue..as of March 7th..
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Today

Code:

strat@debian:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
strat@debian:~$

pentode · 03-08-2009, 03:10 PM

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but it said it couldnt find my hard drive.

FWIW, I did see this in the Known Issues for daily build of the testing installer on the Debian webpage. I was getting ready to download a netinstall CD image, but after I saw this, I grabbed the Lenny 5.0 version instead.