Via comment #35 of bug 681656, some users reported success using a daily image to work around an install bug in the latest stable release.
Downloaded the mini ISO from 2012-09-09 and burned to USB using program unetbootin.
- Formatted USB 8GB pen drive as FAT32 using Red Hat Disk Utility 3.0.2
- Format drive > Master Boot Record > Format
- Create partition > FAT > Create (then wait for USB light to stop)
- Mount volume
- Unetbootin with ISO file mini.iso to /dev/sdb1 > OK
- Reboot
- Fails to detect network hardware
- I edit /bin/check-missing-firmware, adding "exit 0" after #!/bin/sh
- This successfully gets me past this stage
- Installation continues
- The installer hangs again ... I forget where
Two other options:
- Use alpha release
- Edit /bin/mountmedia
I opt for #1, first, downloading the mini ISO from 2012-05-20 and burning to USB as above, then rebooting.
- Edited /bin/check-missing-firmware, as before
- Ran into missing kernel modules error after selecting squeeze or wheezy (no option for lenny) x_x ... going forward, it does not seem to detect the hard disk
- Noted Ctrl+Alt+F4 reports "Failed to load tigon /tg3_ts05.bin"
- Aborted
Researched and discovered this represents the Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver.
- Per the firmware pagipw2100e, I downloaded the squeeze current non-free tarball to the root of the reformatted squeeze 2012-09-09 Mini ISO.
- For good measure, also downloaded firmware.tar.gz from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/squeeze/current/ to the USB /firmware folder
- Rebooted.
- No problem with the Tigon3...network detection goes smoothly...but error detecting ipw2100-1.3.fw, the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver (?)
Honestly, at this point I do not remember what specifically happened; it froze again, I took down the following notes:
- Error, "Firmware ipw2100-1.3.fw not available or load failed"
- Edited /bin/check-missing-firmware, as before
- Process /sbin/reopen-console /sbin/debian-installer exited...
- Check hardware completes
- Menu item disk-detect selected
- "Detecting disks and all other hardware"
- I Ctrl-C a few times, go back and forth between Ctrl+F4 (system messages), Ctrl-F3 (started a shell), and Ctrl-F1 (install screen)...
- Next thing I know, the installer has started up the partitioner
- And then I hit the screen which asked where to install...I took a deep breath, selected my primary drive, and went with it. It installed OK. Whole process took ~40 minutes.
Soo....
I'm in!
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