Hm, in the partitioning stage the installer tells me I should use "the
old ext2 (revision 0) filesystem" (maybe same problem as Laurent
Guerby). I go back and do that.
Then it says my boot partition should be the first primairy partition on
the disk. I liked to keep what was on there, so I just continued. At the
end it tries to get a file from the mirror server, but fails, so I
choose "Ignore".
A bit later it says it failed to install 'colo' in /target/. Continuing.
Then it fails to execute preconfigured command ("echo do_symlinks = no >
/target/etc/kernel-img.conf ; apt-install
linux-image-2.6.27-libre-medan"). Next. Finished. Reboot.
PMON2000 still confuses me. I booted with wd0b and /dev/hda5. The latter
makes sense because I created a logical partition, but how does that
match with wd0b? Oh wait, I installed that Chinese Debian distro on
/dev/hda3 and that has vmlinux-2.6.27.1-yeeloong. I'd still say b!=3. My
new install on /dev/hda5 on the other hand has no kernels. /boot
contains default.colo and delo.2nd.
Anyway, it boots into a console and I can log in. Yay! What I can't do
is "sudo" and I was never asked to set a password for root.
And that concludes the story of my experiences with Robert's netboot. I
hope it will prove useful. Join us next time for more exciting gNewSense
hacking. (Seriously, join us!) Goodnight.