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
- [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
- [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.
[22 Dec 05] Sparc64 netboot.img fails on "initramfs-tools: Depends klibc-utils (>= 1.0.14-1ubuntu2) but it is installable" ( bugreport #344482 )
- [20 Dec 05] sid d-i installs hang due to the new pkgsel component. Skip the "Select and install software" step in the menu to avoid this.
- [13 Dec 05] AMD64 images are broken because of wrong kernel udebs. A fix is being worked on.
- [09 Dec 05] Base system installations can fail silently because installation of packages is not done non-interactive. This may lead to a later failure, e.g. during bootloader installation.
- [30 Nov 05] The two issues below seem to be limited to CD images for Intel x86 due to problems in the build process:
- if the installer fails to start properly, try booting with 'install MENU=/usr/bin/main-menu'
- fails to load framebuffer modules resulting in ugly and partially broken display and limited language choices
[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].)