This page tracks problems with the DebianInstaller daily developmental builds on a daily basis. If you are using a daily build and it breaks, check here before filing a bug report.
This is not intended as a replacement for the BTS, just a quick list of the most pressing issues of the day. This page is maintained by the d-i developers. We only list issues here that affect many users. If you feel an issue should be added, please ask on #debian-boot on irc.debian.org or send an e-mail to debian-boot@lists.debian.org.
Note
The issues listed below do not affect official releases; see the errata for the relevant release instead:
[http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/ Official Sarge installation images (3.1r0)] - [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/index#errata errata]
[http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ D-I Etch Beta1] - [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata errata]
Also, daily builds sometimes fail. Check this page to see if a daily build is current or failing: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/build-logs.html
Current issues
- [11 Nov 05] The netinst iso is too large to fit on a 128 mb USB stick. It will work as a regular CD image or on larger USB sticks for a USB install.
- [13 Oct 05] Low memory (~32 mb) installs are currently known to be broken. 48 mb installs work.
- [27 Sep 05] S/390: starting from version 1.6.23-1, libparted and thus partconf no longer recognizes existing partitions on a dasd volume
- [1 Aug 05] sparc: netboot image needs to be passed ramdisk_size=16000 to boot the 2.4 kernel properly
Past issues
[1 Mar 05] If you have multiple harddisk controllers, you may have to create additional device nodes before you reboot. Debian currently supports only /dev/hd[a-h][1-20] and /dev/sd[a-h][1-15] by default. This is not a problem during the installation itself because the installer uses a dynamic /dev, but may lead to failures during the reboot after the installation. (Fixed with debootstrap 0.3.3 which provides /dev/hd[a-p][1-24] and /dev/sd[a-p][1-15].)
- [4 Nov 05] amd64 etch_d-i CDs are missing an installer, pending a finished build of the installer on amd64. This does not affect sid_d-i CDs; to get sid_d-i CDs, replace "daily" with "sid_d-i" in the url for (netinst and businesscard) CDs.
- [30 Oct 05] amd64: apt does not know about the amd64 archive's gpg key, which breaks all amd64 installs except from netinst or full CD images; a new version of apt containing the key has been uploaded but has to reach testing.
- [11 Oct 05] etch_d-i CD images are not yet ready for public consumption; please use the daily (or sid_d-i) images instead
[29 Oct 05] New component Set up users and passwords is broken but can be skipped safely
- [29 Oct 2005] amd64: Recent AMD64 netinst CD images are missing some essential packages; installation will fail during the base installation phase; other installation methods for AMD64 are failing too, probably because of related reasons
[19 Oct 05] secure apt [http://bugs.debian.org/334656 won't work] with any debian CDs as it cannot validate them; this breaks all CD images except businesscard and netboot mini ISOs. Symptom: failed to install initrd-tools
- [26 Oct 05] new debootstrap breaks all installations; a fix has been uploaded so hopefully tomorrow's daily images are OK again
- [18 Oct 05] current installer images cannot automatically load modules for PCMCIA cards when running the 2.6 kernel; a workaround is to switch to VT2 and manually 'modprobe pcmcia' before configuring the network (fixed in unstable, should reach testing soon)
- [18 Oct 05] debootstrap has stopped being able to install testing
[19 Oct 05] installations from unstable fail to create a user in the second stage due to an [http://bugs.debian.org/332815 adduser bug]
- [27 Sep 05] we have been informed that vfat partitions may be destroyed when resized using the current version of libparted (1.6.24) used by the installer; a normal installation should present no problems
- [1 Jun 05] the weekly testing CD image builds are down
- [06 Oct 05] mips: cobalt netboot image needs to be passed ramdisk_size=16000 to boot properly.