[Debian] installer script

Matthew Lane malane at purdue.edu
Wed Oct 22 16:19:47 CEST 2008


I did partition the card myself after I ran the installer and it failed, 
then I tried to do everything step by step (skipping the partition 
step).  This proceeded to the part where it actually downloads debian 
packages and attempts to install them, and about 15 minutes through that 
it failed.  I'll run the script again and post a log later today.  
Thanks for the help.

Andrew Bennett wrote:
> Try removing both partitions from your SD card (fdisk then 'd' both 
> partitions) and then running the installer again.  When I ran the 
> installer script for the first time (this was a while ago: a day or 
> two after the installer script was published), with an SD card that 
> was already partitioned with Debian (pre-install script version) on 
> it, the partition step failed.  I manually set up the partitions and 
> ran the rest of the install steps individually.  For later install 
> attempts, I always deleted all the partitions from the SD card before 
> running the installer.
>
> You could also try looking closer at the output of the script, to see 
> what errors occurred.  (I ran the installer from an ssh session, so I 
> could use my terminal window's scrollback buffer, copy and paste, etc.)
>
> Also, you could try partitioning the card yourself (find the 
> instructions in the wiki) and then continue on from there.
>
>
> ---
> Andrew Bennett
> drewbenn at gmail.com <mailto:drewbenn at gmail.com>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Matthew Lane <malane at purdue.edu 
> <mailto:malane at purdue.edu>> wrote:
>
>     No, I have not tried the 512mb card (it's at home and I'm at college).
>     I'm not sure how to do what you're talking about arne, but you're
>     suggesting that I can install a base system and put Debian on
>     that?  Can
>     you point me in the correct direction?
>
>     Also, my 8gb uSDHC card works:
>
>     root at om-gta02:~# fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0
>
>     Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8168 MB, 8168931328 bytes
>     4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 249296 cylinders
>     Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
>
>            Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
>     /dev/mmcblk0p1               1         245        7832   4 FAT16 <32M
>     /dev/mmcblk0p2             246      249296     7969632  83 Linux
>
>     Shawn "prjktdtnt" Thompson wrote:
>     > <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Matthew
>     > Lane wrote:
>     >> Hey all,
>     >>
>     >> I'm trying to install Debian on the freerunner using the install.sh
>     >> script.
>     >>
>     >> I keep getting stuck at Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
>     >> and then my script exits.  I've tried individually installing, but
>     >> after the "install" step the script fails to install.
>     >>
>     >> I've added a u-boot environment boot option to lower the clock to
>     >> 10,000,000 as instructed on the bug report here:
>     >> https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1743
>     >>
>     >> After booting with this option, without going into suspend, and
>     after
>     >> killing qpe:
>     >>
>     >> DASH_BINSH=false SD_PART1_FS=vfat ./install.sh all
>     >>
>     >> The script terminates after the partition stage.  I'm using a
>     SanDisk
>     >> 8GB uSDHC card.
>     >>
>     >> I'm using the latest GTA02v5_and_up NAND u-boot.
>     >>
>     >> I think I remember seeing some more instructions, but I can't
>     seem to
>     >> find them anywhere.  Anyone have an idea of how to proceed from
>     here?
>     >>
>     >> _______________________________________________
>     >> Openmoko community mailing list
>     >> community at lists.openmoko.org <mailto:community at lists.openmoko.org>
>     >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
>     >>
>     > Have you tried on the 512MB that the majority of FreeRunner's
>     ship with?
>     >
>     >
>     > </div>
>     >
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