# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2007-01-07 20:02+0000\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: application/x-xml2pot; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:4 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting the Installation System" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:9 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting the Installer on &arch-title;" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:15 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For information on how to boot the graphical installer, see ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:27 #, no-c-format msgid "Alpha Console Firmware" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:28 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Console firmware is stored in a flash ROM and started when an Alpha system " "is powered up or reset. There are two different console specifications used " "on Alpha systems, and hence two classes of console firmware available:" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:38 #, no-c-format msgid "" "SRM console, based on the Alpha Console Subsystem " "specification, which provides an operating environment for OpenVMS, Tru64 " "UNIX, and Linux operating systems." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:45 #, no-c-format msgid "" "ARC, AlphaBIOS, or ARCSBIOS console, based on the " "Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) specification, which provides an operating " "environment for Windows NT." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:54 #, no-c-format msgid "" "From the user's perspective, the most important difference between SRM and " "ARC is that the choice of console constrains the possible disk-partitioning " "scheme for the hard disk which you wish to boot off of." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:61 #, no-c-format msgid "" "ARC requires that you use an MS-DOS partition table (as created by " "cfdisk) for the boot disk. Therefore MS-DOS partition " "tables are the native partition format when booting from ARC. " "In fact, since AlphaBIOS contains a disk partitioning utility, you may " "prefer to partition your disks from the firmware menus before installing " "Linux." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:70 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Conversely, SRM is incompatible " "Specifically, the bootsector format required by the Console Subsystem " "Specification conflicts with the placement of the DOS partition table. with MS-DOS partition tables. Since Tru64 Unix uses the " "BSD disklabel format, this is the native partition format for " "SRM installations." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:83 #, no-c-format msgid "" "GNU/Linux is the only operating system on Alpha that can be booted from both " "console types, but &debian; &release; only supports booting on SRM-based " "systems. If you have an Alpha for which no version of SRM is available, if " "you will be dual-booting the system with Windows NT, or if your boot device " "requires ARC console support for BIOS initialization, you will not be able " "to use the &debian; &release; installer. You can still run &debian; " "&release; on such systems by using other install media; for instance, you " "can install Debian woody with MILO and upgrade." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:94 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Because MILO is not available for any of the Alpha " "systems currently in production (as of February 2000), and because it is no " "longer necessary to buy an OpenVMS or Tru64 Unix license to have SRM " "firmware on your older Alpha, it is recommended that you use SRM when " "possible." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:102 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The following table summarizes available and supported system type/console " "combinations (see for the system type names). " "The word ARC below denotes any of the ARC-compliant consoles." msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:114 #, no-c-format msgid "System Type" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:115 #, no-c-format msgid "Console Type Supported" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:121 #, no-c-format msgid "alcor" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:122 boot-installer.xml:125 boot-installer.xml:131 #: boot-installer.xml:137 boot-installer.xml:140 boot-installer.xml:143 #: boot-installer.xml:146 boot-installer.xml:152 boot-installer.xml:155 #: boot-installer.xml:158 boot-installer.xml:167 boot-installer.xml:176 #: boot-installer.xml:191 boot-installer.xml:194 #, no-c-format msgid "ARC or SRM" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:124 #, no-c-format msgid "avanti" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:127 #, no-c-format msgid "book1" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:128 boot-installer.xml:134 boot-installer.xml:149 #: boot-installer.xml:161 boot-installer.xml:170 boot-installer.xml:173 #: boot-installer.xml:179 boot-installer.xml:185 boot-installer.xml:188 #, no-c-format msgid "SRM only" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:130 #, no-c-format msgid "cabriolet" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:133 #, no-c-format msgid "dp264" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:136 #, no-c-format msgid "eb164" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:139 #, no-c-format msgid "eb64p" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:142 #, no-c-format msgid "eb66" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:145 #, no-c-format msgid "eb66p" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:148 #, no-c-format msgid "jensen" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:151 #, no-c-format msgid "lx164" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:154 #, no-c-format msgid "miata" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:157 #, no-c-format msgid "mikasa" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:160 #, no-c-format msgid "mikasa-p" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:163 #, no-c-format msgid "nautilus" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:164 #, no-c-format msgid "ARC (see motherboard manual) or SRM" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:166 #, no-c-format msgid "noname" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:169 #, no-c-format msgid "noritake" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:172 #, no-c-format msgid "noritake-p" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:175 #, no-c-format msgid "pc164" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:178 #, no-c-format msgid "rawhide" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:181 #, no-c-format msgid "ruffian" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:182 boot-installer.xml:197 boot-installer.xml:200 #, no-c-format msgid "ARC only" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:184 #, no-c-format msgid "sable" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:187 #, no-c-format msgid "sable-g" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:190 #, no-c-format msgid "sx164" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:193 #, no-c-format msgid "takara" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:196 #, no-c-format msgid "xl" msgstr "" #. Tag: entry #: boot-installer.xml:199 #, no-c-format msgid "xlt" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:207 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Generally, none of these consoles can boot Linux directly, so the assistance " "of an intermediary bootloader is required. For the SRM console, " "aboot, a small, platform-independent bootloader, is used. " "See the (unfortunately outdated) SRM HOWTO for more information on aboot." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:216 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The following paragraphs are from the woody install manual, and are included " "here for reference; they may be useful to someone at a later date when " "Debian supports MILO-based installs again." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:222 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Generally, none of these consoles can boot Linux directly, so the assistance " "of an intermediary bootloader is required. There are two mainstream Linux " "loaders: MILO and aboot." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:228 #, no-c-format msgid "" "MILO is itself a console, which replaces ARC or SRM in " "memory. MILO can be booted from both ARC and SRM and is " "the only way to bootstrap Linux from the ARC console. MILO is platform-specific (a different MILO is needed " "for each system type) and exist only for those systems, for which ARC " "support is shown in the table above. See also the (unfortunately outdated) " "MILO HOWTO." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:238 #, no-c-format msgid "" "aboot is a small, platform-independent bootloader, which " "runs from SRM only. See the (also unfortunately outdated) SRM HOWTO for more information on aboot." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:245 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Thus, three scenarios are generally possible, depending on the system's " "console firmware and whether or not MILO is available: " "\n" "SRM -> aboot\n" "SRM -> MILO\n" "ARC -> MILO\n" " Because MILO is not available " "for any of the Alpha systems currently in production (as of February 2000), " "and because it is no longer necessary to buy an OpenVMS or Tru64 Unix " "license to have SRM firmware on your older Alpha, it is recommended that you " "use SRM and aboot on new installations of GNU/Linux, " "unless you wish to dual-boot with Windows NT." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:260 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The majority of AlphaServers and all current server and workstation products " "contain both SRM and AlphaBIOS in their firmware. For half-flash machines such as the various evaluation boards, it is possible to " "switch from one version to another by reflashing the firmware. Also, once " "SRM is installed, it is possible to run ARC/AlphaBIOS from a floppy disk " "(using the arc command). For the reasons mentioned above, " "we recommend switching to SRM before installing &debian;." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:271 #, no-c-format msgid "" "As on other architectures, you should install the newest available revision " "of the firmware Except on Jensen, where Linux is not " "supported on firmware versions newer than 1.7 — see for more information. before " "installing &debian;. For Alpha, firmware updates can be obtained from Alpha Firmware Updates." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:290 boot-installer.xml:1015 boot-installer.xml:1506 #: boot-installer.xml:2001 boot-installer.xml:2083 boot-installer.xml:2172 #: boot-installer.xml:2522 boot-installer.xml:2621 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting with TFTP" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:291 #, no-c-format msgid "" "In SRM, Ethernet interfaces are named with the ewa " "prefix, and will be listed in the output of the show dev command, like this (edited slightly): \n" ">>> show dev\n" "ewa0.0.0.9.0 EWA0 08-00-2B-86-98-65\n" "ewb0.0.0.11.0 EWB0 08-00-2B-86-98-54\n" "ewc0.0.0.2002.0 EWC0 00-06-2B-01-32-B0\n" " You first need to set the boot protocol: " "\n" ">>> set ewa0_protocols bootp\n" " Then check the medium type is correct: " "\n" ">>> set ewa0_mode mode\n" " You can get a listing of valid modes with " ">>>set ewa0_mode." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:309 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Then, to boot from the first Ethernet interface, you would type: " "\n" ">>> boot ewa0 -flags \"\"\n" " This will boot using the default kernel " "parameters as included in the netboot image." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:318 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you wish to use a serial console, you must pass the " "console= parameter to the kernel. This can be done " "using the -flags argument to the SRM boot command. The serial ports are named the same as their " "corresponding files in /dev. Also, when specifying " "additional kernel parameters, you must repeat certain default options that " "are needed by the &d-i; images. For example, to boot from ewa0 and use a console on the first serial port, you would type:" msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:330 #, no-c-format msgid "" ">>> boot ewa0 -flags "root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 " "console=ttyS0"" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:335 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from CD-ROM with the SRM Console" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:336 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The &debian; install CDs include several preconfigured boot options for VGA " "and serial consoles. Type \n" ">>> boot xxxx -flags 0\n" " to boot using VGA console, where " "xxxx is your CD-ROM drive in SRM notation. To use " "serial console on the first serial device, type \n" ">>> boot xxxx -flags 1\n" " and for console on the second serial port, type" msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:351 #, no-c-format msgid ">>> boot xxxx -flags 2" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:357 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from CD-ROM with the ARC or AlphaBIOS Console" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:358 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot a CD-ROM from the ARC console, find your sub-architecture code name " "(see ), then enter \\milo\\linload." "exe as the boot loader and \\milo" "\\subarch (where subarch is the proper subarchitecture name) as the OS Path in the `OS " "Selection Setup' menu. Ruffians make an exception: You need to use " "\\milo\\ldmilo.exe as boot loader." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:374 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Floppies with the SRM Console" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:375 #, no-c-format msgid "" "At the SRM prompt (>>>), issue the following " "command: \n" ">>> boot dva0 -flags 0\n" " possibly replacing dva0 " "with the actual device name. Usually, dva0 is the " "floppy; type \n" ">>> show dev\n" " to see the list of devices (e.g., if you want to " "boot from a CD). Note that if you are booting via MILO, -flags argument is ignored, so you can just type boot dva0. If everything works OK, you will eventually see the Linux kernel " "boot." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:392 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you want to specify kernel parameters when booting via aboot, use the following command: \n" ">>> boot dva0 -file linux.bin.gz -flags \"root=/dev/fd0 " "load_ramdisk=1 arguments\"\n" " (typed on one line), substituting, if necessary, " "the actual SRM boot device name for dva0, the Linux " "boot device name for fd0, and the desired kernel " "parameters for arguments." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:404 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you want to specify kernel parameters when booting via MILO, you will have to interrupt bootstrap once you get into MILO. See " "." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:414 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Floppies with the ARC or AlphaBIOS Console" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:416 #, no-c-format msgid "" "In the OS Selection menu, set linload.exe as the boot " "loader, and milo as the OS Path. Bootstrap using the " "newly created entry." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:425 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting with MILO" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:426 #, no-c-format msgid "" "MILO contained on the bootstrap media is configured to proceed straight to " "Linux automatically. Should you wish to intervene, all you need is to press " "space during MILO countdown." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:432 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you want to specify all the bits explicitly (for example, to supply " "additional parameters), you can use a command like this: " "\n" "MILO> boot fd0:linux.bin.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 \n" " If you are booting from something other than a " "floppy, substitute fd0 in the above example with the " "appropriate device name in Linux notation. The help " "command would give you a brief MILO command reference." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:451 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from TFTP" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:457 boot-installer.xml:1021 boot-installer.xml:1524 #: boot-installer.xml:2007 boot-installer.xml:2528 boot-installer.xml:2627 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Booting from the network requires that you have a network connection and a " "TFTP network boot server (DHCP, RARP, or BOOTP)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:462 boot-installer.xml:1026 boot-installer.xml:1529 #: boot-installer.xml:2012 boot-installer.xml:2533 boot-installer.xml:2632 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Older systems such as the 715 might require the use of an RBOOT server " "instead of a BOOTP server." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:467 boot-installer.xml:1031 boot-installer.xml:1534 #: boot-installer.xml:2017 boot-installer.xml:2538 boot-installer.xml:2637 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The installation method to support network booting is described in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:475 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from TFTP on Netwinder" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:476 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Netwinders have two network interfaces: A 10Mbps NE2000-compatible card " "(which is generally referred to as eth0) and a 100Mbps " "Tulip card. There may be problems loading the image via TFTP using the " "100Mbps card so it is recommended that you use the 10Mbps interface (the one " "labeled with 10 Base-T)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:485 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You need NeTTrom 2.2.1 or later to boot the installation system, and version " "2.3.3 is recommended. Unfortunately, firmware files are currently not " "available for download because of license issues. If this situation changes, " "you may find new images at ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:493 #, no-c-format msgid "" "When you boot your Netwinder you have to interrupt the boot process during " "the countdown. This allows you to set a number of firmware settings needed " "in order to boot the installer. First of all, start by loading the default " "settings: \n" " NeTTrom command-> load-defaults\n" " Furthermore, you must configure the network, " "either with a static address: \n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv netconfig_eth0 flash\n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv eth0_ip 192.168.0.10/24\n" " where 24 is the number of set bits in the " "netmask, or a dynamic address: \n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv netconfig_eth0 dhcp\n" " You may also need to configure the " "route1 settings if the TFTP server is not on the " "local subnet. Following these settings, you have to specify the TFTP server " "and the location of the image. You can then store your settings to flash. " "\n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv kerntftpserver 192.168.0.1\n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv kerntftpfile boot.img\n" " NeTTrom command-> save-all\n" " Now you have to tell the firmware that the TFTP " "image should be booted: \n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv kernconfig tftp\n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv rootdev /dev/ram\n" " If you use a serial console to install your " "Netwinder, you need to add the following setting: \n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv cmdappend root=/dev/ram " "console=ttyS0,115200\n" " Alternatively, for installations using a " "keyboard and monitor you have to set: \n" " NeTTrom command-> setenv cmdappend root=/dev/ram\n" " You can use the printenv " "command to review your environment settings. After you have verified that " "the settings are correct, you can load the image: \n" " NeTTrom command-> boot\n" " In case you run into any problems, a detailed HOWTO is available." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:545 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from TFTP on CATS" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:546 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On CATS machines, use boot de0: or similar at the Cyclone " "prompt." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:556 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from CD-ROM" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:562 boot-installer.xml:732 boot-installer.xml:1143 #: boot-installer.xml:1964 boot-installer.xml:2310 boot-installer.xml:2665 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The easiest route for most people will be to use a set of Debian CDs. If you " "have a CD set, and if your machine supports booting directly off the CD, " "great! Simply configure your system for booting off a " "CD as described in , insert " "your CD, reboot, and proceed to the next chapter." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:573 boot-installer.xml:743 boot-installer.xml:1154 #: boot-installer.xml:1975 boot-installer.xml:2321 boot-installer.xml:2676 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that certain CD drives may require special drivers, and thus be " "inaccessible in the early installation stages. If it turns out the standard " "way of booting off a CD doesn't work for your hardware, revisit this chapter " "and read about alternate kernels and installation methods which may work for " "you." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:581 boot-installer.xml:751 boot-installer.xml:1162 #: boot-installer.xml:1983 boot-installer.xml:2329 boot-installer.xml:2684 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Even if you cannot boot from CD-ROM, you can probably install the Debian " "system components and any packages you want from CD-ROM. Simply boot using a " "different media, such as floppies. When it's time to install the operating " "system, base system, and any additional packages, point the installation " "system at the CD-ROM drive." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:589 boot-installer.xml:759 boot-installer.xml:1170 #: boot-installer.xml:1991 boot-installer.xml:2337 boot-installer.xml:2692 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you have problems booting, see ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:596 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot a CD-ROM from the Cyclone console prompt, use the command " "boot cd0:cats.bin" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:605 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Firmware" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:611 #, no-c-format msgid "" "There is an increasing number of consumer devices that directly boot from a " "flash chip on the device. The installer can be written to flash so it will " "automatically start when you reboot your machines." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:617 #, no-c-format msgid "" "In many cases, changing the firmware of an embedded device voids your " "warranty. Sometimes you are also not able to recover your device if there " "are problems during the flashing process. Therefore, please take care and " "follow the steps precisely." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:628 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting the NSLU2" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:629 #, no-c-format msgid "There are three ways how to put the installer firmware into flash:" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:635 #, no-c-format msgid "Using the NSLU2 web interface" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:636 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Go to the administration section and choose the menu item Upgrade. You can then browse your disk for the installer image you have " "previously downloaded. Then press the Start Upgrade " "button, confirm, wait for a few minutes and confirm again. The system will " "then boot straight into the installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:647 #, no-c-format msgid "Via the network using Linux/Unix" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:648 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You can use upslug2 from any Linux or Unix machine to " "upgrade the machine via the network. This software is packaged for Debian. " "First, you have to put your NSLU2 in upgrade mode: " " Disconnect any disks and/or devices from the USB ports. Power off the NSLU2 " " Press and hold the reset button (accessible through the " "small hole on the back just above the power input). " " Press and release the power button to power on the NSLU2. Wait for 10 seconds watching the ready/" "status LED. After 10 seconds it will change from amber to red. Immediately " "release the reset button. The NSLU2 " "ready/status LED will flash alternately red/green (there is a 1 second delay " "before the first green). The NSLU2 is now in upgrade mode. See the NSLU2-Linux pages if you have " "problems with this. Once your NSLU2 is in upgrade mode, you can flash the " "new image: \n" "sudo upslug2 -i di-nslu2.bin\n" " Note that the tool also shows the MAC address of " "your NSLU2, which may come in handy to configure your DHCP server. After the " "whole image has been written and verified, the system will automatically " "reboot. Make sure you connect your USB disk again now, otherwise the " "installer won't be able to find it." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:709 #, no-c-format msgid "Via the network using Windows" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:710 #, no-c-format msgid "" "There is a tool for Windows to upgrade the firmware " "via the network." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:726 boot-installer.xml:1137 boot-installer.xml:1952 #: boot-installer.xml:2304 boot-installer.xml:2659 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from a CD-ROM" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:864 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Booting from Linux Using LILO or GRUB" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:867 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot the installer from hard disk, you must first download and place the " "needed files as described in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:872 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you intend to use the hard drive only for booting and then download " "everything over the network, you should download the netboot/" "debian-installer/&architecture;/initrd.gz file and its " "corresponding kernel netboot/debian-installer/&architecture;/" "linux. This will allow you to repartition the hard disk from " "which you boot the installer, although you should do so with care." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:882 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Alternatively, if you intend to keep an existing partition on the hard drive " "unchanged during the install, you can download the hd-media/initrd." "gz file and its kernel, as well as copy a CD iso to the drive " "(make sure the file is named ending in .iso). The " "installer can then boot from the drive and install from the CD image, " "without needing the network." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:891 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For LILO, you will need to configure two essential things " "in /etc/lilo.conf: to " "load the initrd.gz installer at boot time; have the vmlinuz kernel use " "a RAM disk as its root partition. Here is " "a /etc/lilo.conf example:" msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:912 #, no-c-format msgid "" "image=/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz\n" " label=newinstall\n" " initrd=/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:912 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For more details, refer to the initrd 4 and " "lilo.conf 5 man pages. Now run lilo and " "reboot." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:921 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The procedure for GRUB is quite similar. Locate your " "menu.lst in the /boot/grub/ " "directory (sometimes in the /boot/boot/grub/), add the " "following lines: \n" "title New Install\n" "kernel (hd0,0)/boot/newinstall/vmlinuz\n" "initrd (hd0,0)/boot/newinstall/initrd.gz\n" " and reboot." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:932 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that the value of the ramdisk_size may need to " "be adjusted for the size of the initrd image. From here on, there should be " "no difference between GRUB or LILO." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:943 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from USB Memory Stick" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:944 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Let's assume you have prepared everything from and . Now just plug your USB " "stick into some free USB connector and reboot the computer. The system " "should boot up, and you should be presented with the boot: " "prompt. Here you can enter optional boot arguments, or just hit &enterkey;." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:957 boot-installer.xml:2064 boot-installer.xml:2567 #: boot-installer.xml:2710 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Floppies" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:958 boot-installer.xml:2575 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You will have already downloaded the floppy images you needed and created " "floppies from the images in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:965 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot from the installer boot floppy, place it in the primary floppy " "drive, shut down the system as you normally would, then turn it back on." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:971 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For installing from an LS-120 drive (ATAPI version) with a set of floppies, " "you need to specify the virtual location for the floppy device. This is done " "with the root= boot argument, giving the device that " "the ide-floppy driver maps the device to. For example, if your LS-120 drive " "is connected as the first IDE device (master) on the second cable, you enter " "install root=/dev/hdc at the boot prompt." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:981 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that on some machines, Control Alt Delete does not properly reset the " "machine, so a hard reboot is recommended. If you are " "installing from an existing operating system (e.g., from a DOS box) you " "don't have a choice. Otherwise, please do a hard reboot when booting." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:990 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The floppy disk will be accessed, and you should then see a screen that " "introduces the boot floppy and ends with the boot: prompt." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:996 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Once you press &enterkey;, you should see the message " "Loading..., followed by " "Uncompressing Linux..., and then a " "screenfull or so of information about the hardware in your system. More " "information on this phase of the boot process can be found below in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1005 #, no-c-format msgid "" "After booting from the boot floppy, the root floppy is requested. Insert the " "root floppy and press &enterkey;, and the contents are loaded into memory. " "The installer program debian-installer is automatically " "launched." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1039 #, no-c-format msgid "There are various ways to do a TFTP boot on i386." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1045 #, no-c-format msgid "NIC or Motherboard that support PXE" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1046 #, no-c-format msgid "" "It could be that your Network Interface Card or Motherboard provides PXE " "boot functionality. This is a Intel " "re-implementation of TFTP boot. If so, you may be able to configure your " "BIOS to boot from the network." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1057 #, no-c-format msgid "NIC with Network BootROM" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1058 #, no-c-format msgid "" "It could be that your Network Interface Card provides TFTP boot " "functionality." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1063 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Let us (&email-debian-boot-list;) know how did you manage it. " "Please refer to this document." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1071 #, no-c-format msgid "Etherboot" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1072 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The etherboot project " "provides bootdiskettes and even bootroms that do a TFTPboot." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1081 #, no-c-format msgid "The Boot Prompt" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1082 #, no-c-format msgid "" "When the installer boots, you should be presented with a friendly graphical " "screen showing the Debian logo and the boot prompt: " "\n" "Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot:\n" " At the boot prompt you can either just press " "&enterkey; to boot the installer with default options or enter a specific " "boot method and, optionally, boot parameters." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1094 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Information on available boot methods and on boot parameters which might be " "useful can be found by pressing F2 through F8. If you add any parameters to the boot command line, be sure to type " "the boot method (the default is install) and a space " "before the first parameter (e.g., install fb=false)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1103 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you are installing the system via a remote management device that " "provides a text interface to the VGA console, you may not be able to see the " "initial graphical splash screen upon booting the installer; you may even not " "see the boot prompt. Examples of these devices include the text console of " "Compaq's integrated Lights Out (iLO) and HP's " "Integrated Remote Assistant (IRA). You can blindly press " "F1 In some cases these devices will require special escape " "sequences to enact this keypress, for example the IRA uses " "Ctrl F 1. to bypass this screen and view the help text. " "Once you are past the splash screen and at the help text your keystrokes " "will be echoed at the prompt as expected. To prevent the installer from " "using the framebuffer for the rest of the installation, you will also want " "to add fb=false to the boot prompt, as described in " "the help text." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1178 #, no-c-format msgid "CD Contents" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1180 #, no-c-format msgid "" "There are three basic variations of Debian Install CDs. The " "Business Card CD has a minimal installation that will " "fit on the small form factor CD media. It requires a network connection in " "order to install the rest of the base installation and make a usable system. " "The Network Install CD has all of the packages for a " "base install but requires a network connection to a Debian mirror site in " "order to install the extra packages one would want for a complete system . " "The set of Debian CDs can install a complete system from the wide range of " "packages without needing access to the network." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1196 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The IA-64 architecture uses the next generation Extensible Firmware " "Interface (EFI) from Intel. Unlike the traditional x86 BIOS which knows " "little about the boot device other than the partition table and Master Boot " "Record (MBR), EFI can read and write files from FAT16 or FAT32 formatted " "disk partitions. This simplifies the often arcane process of starting a " "system. The system boot loader and the EFI firmware that supports it have a " "full filesystem to store the files necessary for booting the machine. This " "means that the system disk on an IA-64 system has an additional disk " "partition dedicated to EFI instead of the simple MBR or boot block on more " "conventional systems." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1212 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The Debian Installer CD contains a small EFI partition where the " "ELILO bootloader, its configuration file, the installer's " "kernel, and initial filesystem (initrd) are located. The running system also " "contains an EFI partition where the necessary files for booting the system " "reside. These files are readable from the EFI Shell as described below." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1221 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Most of the details of how ELILO actually loads and " "starts a system are transparent to the system installer. However, the " "installer must set up an EFI partition prior to installing the base system. " "Otherwise, the installation of ELILO will fail, rendering " "the system un-bootable. The EFI partition is allocated and formatted in the " "partitioning step of the installation prior to loading any packages on the " "system disk. The partitioning task also verifies that a suitable EFI " "partition is present before allowing the installation to proceed." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1233 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The EFI Boot Manager is presented as the last step of the firmware " "initialization. It displays a menu list from which the user can select an " "option. Depending on the model of system and what other software has been " "loaded on the system, this menu may be different from one system to another. " "There should be at least two menu items displayed, Boot Option " "Maintenance Menu and EFI Shell (Built-in). " "Using the first option is preferred, however, if that option is not " "available or the CD for some reason does not boot with it, use the second " "option." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1252 #, no-c-format msgid "IMPORTANT" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1253 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The EFI Boot Manager will select a default boot action, typically the first " "menu choice, within a pre-set number of seconds. This is indicated by a " "countdown at the bottom of the screen. Once the timer expires and the " "systems starts the default action, you may have to reboot the machine in " "order to continue the installation. If the default action is the EFI Shell, " "you can return to the Boot Manager by running exit at the " "shell prompt." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1265 #, no-c-format msgid "Option 1: Booting from the Boot Option Maintenance Menu" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1272 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Insert the CD in the DVD/CD drive and reboot the machine. The firmware will " "display the EFI Boot Manager page and menu after it completes its system " "initialization." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1278 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Select Boot Maintenance Menu from the menu with the arrow " "keys and press ENTER. This will display a new menu." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1284 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Select Boot From a File from the menu with the arrow keys " "and press ENTER. This will display a list of devices " "probed by the firmware. You should see two menu lines containing either the " "label Debian Inst [Acpi ... or Removable Media " "Boot. If you examine the rest of the menu line, you will notice " "that the device and controller information should be the same." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1295 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You can choose either of the entries that refer to the CD/DVD drive. Select " "your choice with the arrow keys and press ENTER. If you " "choose Removable Media Boot the machine will immediately " "start the boot load sequence. If you choose Debian Inst [Acpi ... instead, it will display a directory listing of the bootable " "portion of the CD, requiring you to proceed to the next (additional) step." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1306 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You will only need this step if you chose Debian Inst [Acpi .... The directory listing will also show [Treat like " "Removable Media Boot] on the next to the last line. Select this " "line with the arrow keys and press ENTER. This will start " "the boot load sequence." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1318 #, no-c-format msgid "" "These steps start the Debian boot loader which will display a menu page for " "you to select a boot kernel and options. Proceed to selecting the boot " "kernel and options." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1328 #, no-c-format msgid "Option 2: Booting from the EFI Shell" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1329 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If, for some reason, option 1 is not successful, reboot the machine and when " "the EFI Boot Manager screen appears there should be one option called " "EFI Shell [Built-in]. Boot the Debian Installer CD with " "the following steps:" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1340 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Insert the CD in the DVD/CD drive and reboot the machine. The firmware will " "display the EFI Boot Manager page and menu after it completes system " "initialization." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1346 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Select EFI Shell from the menu with the arrow keys and " "press ENTER. The EFI Shell will scan all of the bootable " "devices and display them to the console before displaying its command " "prompt. The recognized bootable partitions on devices will show a device " "name of fsn:. All other " "recognized partitions will be named blkn:. If you inserted the CD just before entering the " "shell, this may take a few extra seconds as it initializes the CD drive." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1360 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Examine the output from the shell looking for the CDROM drive. It is most " "likely the fs0: device although other devices with " "bootable partitions will also show up as fsn." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1367 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Enter fsn: and press " "ENTER to select that device where n is the partition number for the CDROM. The shell will now " "display the partition number as its prompt." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1374 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Enter elilo and press ENTER. This will " "start the boot load sequence." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1381 #, no-c-format msgid "" "As with option 1, these steps start the Debian boot loader which will " "display a menu page for you to select a boot kernel and options. You can " "also enter the shorter fsn:elilo command at the shell prompt. Proceed to selecting the boot kernel " "and options." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1395 #, no-c-format msgid "Installing using a Serial Console" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1397 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You may choose to perform an install using a monitor and keyboard or using a " "serial connection. To use a monitor/keyboard setup, select an option " "containing the string [VGA console]. To install over a serial connection, " "choose an option containing the string [BAUD baud " "serial console], where BAUD is the speed of your " "serial console. Menu items for the most typical baud rate settings on the " "ttyS0 device are preconfigured." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1408 #, no-c-format msgid "" "In most circumstances, you will want the installer to use the same baud rate " "as your connection to the EFI console. If you aren't sure what this setting " "is, you can obtain it using the command baud at the EFI " "shell." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1415 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If there is not an option available that is configured for the serial device " "or baud rate you would like to use, you may override the console setting for " "one of the existing menu options. For example, to use a 57600 baud console " "over the ttyS1 device, enter console=ttyS1,57600n8 into " "the Boot: text window." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1426 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Most IA-64 boxes ship with a default console setting of 9600 baud. This " "setting is rather slow, and the normal installation process will take a " "significant time to draw each screen. You should consider either increasing " "the baud rate used for performing the installation, or performing a Text " "Mode installation. See the Params help menu for " "instructions on starting the installer in Text Mode." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1435 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you select the wrong console type, you will be able to select the kernel " "and enter parameters but both the display and your input will go dead as " "soon as the kernel starts, requiring you to reboot before you can begin the " "installation." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1444 #, no-c-format msgid "Selecting the Boot Kernel and Options" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1446 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The boot loader will display a form with a menu list and a text window with " "a Boot: prompt. The arrow keys select an item from " "the menu and any text typed at the keyboard will appear in the text window. " "There are also help screens which can be displayed by pressing the " "appropriate function key. The General help screen " "explains the menu choices and the Params screen " "explains the common command line options." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1458 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Consult the General help screen for the description " "of the kernels and install modes most appropriate for your installation. You " "should also consult below for any additional " "parameters that you may want to set in the Boot: text " "window. The kernel version you choose selects the kernel version that will " "be used for both the installation process and the installed system. If you " "encounter kernel problems with the installation, you may also have those " "same problems with the system you install. The following two steps will " "select and start the install:" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1476 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Select the kernel version and installation mode most appropriate to your " "needs with the arrow keys." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1481 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Enter any boot parameters by typing at the keyboard. The text will be " "displayed directly in the text window. This is where kernel parameters (such " "as serial console settings) are specified." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1488 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Press ENTER. This will load and start the kernel. The " "kernel will display its usual initialization messages followed by the first " "screen of the Debian Installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1497 boot-installer.xml:1633 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Proceed to the next chapter to continue the installation where you will set " "up the language locale, network, and disk partitions." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1508 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Booting an IA-64 system from the network is similar to a CD boot. The only " "difference is how the installation kernel is loaded. The EFI Boot Manager " "can load and start programs from a server on the network. Once the " "installation kernel is loaded and starts, the system install will proceed " "through the same steps as the CD install with the exception that the " "packages of the base install will be loaded from the network rather than the " "CD drive." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1542 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Network booting an IA-64 system requires two architecture-specific actions. " "On the boot server, DHCP and TFTP must be configured to deliver " "elilo. On the client a new boot option must be defined in " "the EFI boot manager to enable loading over a network." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1553 #, no-c-format msgid "Configuring the Server" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1554 #, no-c-format msgid "" "A suitable TFTP entry for network booting an IA-64 system looks something " "like this: \n" "host mcmuffin {\n" " hardware ethernet 00:30:6e:1e:0e:83;\n" " fixed-address 10.0.0.21;\n" " filename \"debian-installer/ia64/elilo.efi\";\n" "}\n" " Note that the goal is to get elilo.efi running on the client." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1564 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Extract the netboot.tar.gz file into the directory used " "as the root for your tftp server. Typical tftp root directories include " "/var/lib/tftp and /tftpboot. This " "will create a debian-installer directory tree " "containing the boot files for an IA-64 system." msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:1574 #, no-c-format msgid "" "# cd /var/lib/tftp\n" "# tar xvfz /home/user/netboot.tar.gz\n" "./\n" "./debian-installer/\n" "./debian-installer/ia64/\n" "[...]" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1574 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The netboot.tar.gz contains an elilo.conf file that should work for most configurations. However, should you " "need to make changes to this file, you can find it in the debian-" "installer/ia64/ directory. It is possible to have different " "config files for different clients by naming them using the client's IP " "address in hex with the suffix .conf instead of " "elilo.conf. See documentation provided in the " "elilo package for details." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1591 #, no-c-format msgid "Configuring the Client" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1592 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To configure the client to support TFTP booting, start by booting to EFI and " "entering the Boot Option Maintenance Menu. " " Add a boot option. You " "should see one or more lines with the text Load File [Acpi" "()/.../Mac()]. If more than one of these entries exist, choose " "the one containing the MAC address of the interface from which you'll be " "booting. Use the arrow keys to highlight your choice, then press enter. Name the entry Netboot or something similar, save, and exit back to the boot options " "menu. You should see the new boot option " "you just created, and selecting it should initiate a DHCP query, leading to " "a TFTP load of elilo.efi from the server." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1624 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The boot loader will display its prompt after it has downloaded and " "processed its configuration file. At this point, the installation proceeds " "with the same steps as a CD install. Select a boot option as in above and " "when the kernel has completed installing itself from the network, it will " "start the Debian Installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1646 #, no-c-format msgid "Choosing an Installation Method" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1648 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some &arch-title; subarchs have the option of booting using either a 2.4.x " "or 2.2.x linux kernel. When such a choice exists, try the 2.4.x linux " "kernel. The installer should also require less memory when using a 2.4.x " "linux kernel as 2.2.x support requires a fixed-sized ramdisk and 2.4.x uses " "tmpfs." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1656 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you are using a 2.2.x linux kernel, then you need to use the " "&ramdisksize; kernel parameter." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1661 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Make sure root=/dev/ram is one of your kernel " "parameters." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1666 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you're having trouble, check cts's " "&arch-title; debian-installer FAQ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1683 #, no-c-format msgid "Amiga" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1684 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The only method of installation available to amiga is the hard drive (see " "). In other words the cdrom is not " "bootable." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1690 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Amiga does not currently work with bogl, so if you are seeing bogl errors, " "you need to include the boot parameter fb=false." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1699 #, no-c-format msgid "Atari" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1700 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The installer for atari may be started from either the hard drive (see ) or from floppies (see ). In other words the cdrom is not bootable." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1707 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Atari does not currently work with bogl, so if you are seeing bogl errors, " "you need to include the boot parameter fb=false." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1716 #, no-c-format msgid "BVME6000" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1717 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The installer for BVME6000 may be started from a cdrom (see ), floppies (see ), or the net (see )." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1727 #, no-c-format msgid "Macintosh" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1728 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The only method of installation available to mac is from the hard drive (see " "). In other words the cdrom is not " "bootable. Macs do not have a working 2.4.x kernel." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1735 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If your hardware uses a 53c9x-based scsi bus, then you may need to include " "the kernel parameter mac53c9x=1,0. Hardware with two " "such scsi buses, such as the Quadra 950, will need mac53c9x=2,0 instead. Alternatively, the parameter can be specified as " "mac53c9x=-1,0 which will leave autodetection on, but " "which will disable SCSI disconnects. Note that specifying this parameter is " "only necessary if you have more than one hard disk; otherwise, the system " "will run faster if you do not specify it." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1750 #, no-c-format msgid "MVME147 and MVME16x" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1751 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The installer for MVME147 and MVME16x may be started from either floppies " "(see ) or the net (see ). In other words the cdrom is not bootable." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1761 #, no-c-format msgid "Q40/Q60" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1762 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The only method of installation available to Q40/Q60 is from the hard drive " "(see ). In other words the cdrom " "is not bootable." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1773 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from a Hard Disk" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1779 boot-installer.xml:2383 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Booting from an existing operating system is often a convenient option; for " "some systems it is the only supported method of installation." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1785 boot-installer.xml:2389 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot the installer from hard disk, you will have already completed " "downloading and placing the needed files in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1794 #, no-c-format msgid "" "At least six different ramdisks may be used to boot from the hard drive, " "three different types each with and without support for a 2.2.x linux kernel " "(see MANIFEST for details)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1802 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The three different types of ramdisks are cdrom, " "hd-media, and nativehd. These " "ramdisks differ only in their source for installation packages. The " "cdrom ramdisk uses a cdrom to get debian-installer " "packages. The hd-media ramdisk uses an iso image file " "of a cdrom currently residing on a hard disk. Finally, the " "nativehd ramdisk uses the net to install packages." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1823 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from AmigaOS" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1824 #, no-c-format msgid "" "In the Workbench, start the Linux installation process by " "double-clicking on the StartInstall icon in the " "debian directory." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1830 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You may have to press the &enterkey; key twice after the Amiga installer " "program has output some debugging information into a window. After this, the " "screen will go grey, there will be a few seconds' delay. Next, a black " "screen with white text should come up, displaying all kinds of kernel " "debugging information. These messages may scroll by too fast for you to " "read, but that's OK. After a couple of seconds, the installation program " "should start automatically, so you can continue down at ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1845 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Atari TOS" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1846 #, no-c-format msgid "" "At the GEM desktop, start the Linux installation process by double-clicking " "on the bootstra.prg icon in the debian directory and clicking Ok at the program " "options dialog box." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1853 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You may have to press the &enterkey; key after the Atari bootstrap program " "has output some debugging information into a window. After this, the screen " "will go grey, there will be a few seconds' delay. Next, a black screen with " "white text should come up, displaying all kinds of kernel debugging " "information. These messages may scroll by too fast for you to read, but " "that's OK. After a couple of seconds, the installation program should start " "automatically, so you can continue below at ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1868 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from MacOS" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1869 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You must retain the original Mac system and boot from it. It is " "essential that, when booting MacOS in preparation for " "booting the Penguin linux loader, you hold the shift key " "down to prevent extensions from loading. If you don't use MacOS except for " "loading linux, you can accomplish the same thing by removing all extensions " "and control panels from the Mac's System Folder. Otherwise extensions may be " "left running and cause random problems with the running linux kernel." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1880 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Macs require the Penguin bootloader. If you do not have " "the tools to handle a Stuffit archive, &penguin19.hfs; is " "an hfs disk image with Penguin unpacked. describes how to copy this image to a floppy." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1889 #, no-c-format msgid "" "At the MacOS desktop, start the Linux installation process by double-" "clicking on the Penguin Prefs icon in the " "Penguin directory. The Penguin " "booter will start up. Go to the Settings item in " "the File menu, click the Kernel tab. " "Select the kernel (vmlinuz) and ramdisk " "(initrd.gz) images in the install " "directory by clicking on the corresponding buttons in the upper right " "corner, and navigating the file select dialogs to locate the files." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1904 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To set the boot parameters in Penguin, choose File -> " "Settings..., then switch to the " "Options tab. Boot parameters may be typed in to the " "text entry area. If you will always want to use these settings, select " "File -> Save Settings as Default." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1913 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Close the Settings dialog, save the settings and start " "the bootstrap using the Boot Now item in the " "File menu." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1920 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The Penguin booter will output some debugging information " "into a window. After this, the screen will go grey, there will be a few " "seconds' delay. Next, a black screen with white text should come up, " "displaying all kinds of kernel debugging information. These messages may " "scroll by too fast for you to read, but that's OK. After a couple of " "seconds, the installation program should start automatically, so you can " "continue below at ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:1935 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Q40/Q60" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1937 #, no-c-format msgid "FIXME" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1941 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The installation program should start automatically, so you can continue " "below at ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:1953 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Currently, the only &arch-title; subarchitecture that supports CD-ROM " "booting is the BVME6000." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2025 #, no-c-format msgid "" "After booting the VMEbus systems you will be presented with the LILO " "Boot: prompt. At that prompt enter one of the following to " "boot Linux and begin installation proper of the Debian software using vt102 " "terminal emulation:" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2036 #, no-c-format msgid "type i6000 &enterkey; to install a BVME4000/6000" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2041 #, no-c-format msgid "type i162 &enterkey; to install an MVME162" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2046 #, no-c-format msgid "type i167 &enterkey; to install an MVME166/167" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2053 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You may additionally append the string TERM=vt100 to use " "vt100 terminal emulation, e.g., i6000 TERM=vt100 &enterkey;." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2065 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For most &arch-title; architectures, booting from a local filesystem is the " "recommended method." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2070 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Booting from the boot floppy is supported only for Atari and VME (with a " "SCSI floppy drive on VME) at this time." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2086 boot-installer.xml:2133 #, no-c-format msgid "SGI TFTP Booting" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2087 #, no-c-format msgid "" "After entering the command monitor use \n" "bootp():\n" " on SGI machines to boot linux and to begin " "installation of the Debian Software. In order to make this work you may have " "to unset the netaddr environment variable. Type " "\n" "unsetenv netaddr\n" " in the command monitor to do this." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2106 boot-installer.xml:2155 boot-installer.xml:2210 #: boot-installer.xml:2249 #, no-c-format msgid "Broadcom BCM91250A and BCM91480B TFTP Booting" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2107 boot-installer.xml:2211 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On the Broadcom BCM91250A and BCM91480B evaluation boards, you have to load " "the SiByl boot loader via TFTP which will then load and start the Debian " "installer. In most cases, you will first obtain an IP address via DHCP but " "it is also possible to configure a static address. In order to use DHCP, you " "can enter the following command on the CFE prompt: " "\n" "ifconfig eth0 -auto\n" " Once you have obtained an IP address, you can " "load SiByl with the following command: \n" "boot 192.168.1.1:/boot/sibyl\n" " You need to substitute the IP address listed in " "this example with either the name or the IP address of your TFTP server. " "Once you issue this command, the installer will be loaded automatically." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2130 boot-installer.xml:2234 boot-installer.xml:2768 #, no-c-format msgid "Boot Parameters" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2134 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On SGI machines you can append boot parameters to the bootp(): command in the command monitor." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2139 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Following the bootp(): command you can give the path and " "name of the file to boot if you did not give an explicit name via your bootp/" "dhcp server. Example: \n" "bootp():/boot/tftpboot.img\n" " Further kernel parameters can be passed via " "append:" msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:2149 #, no-c-format msgid "bootp(): append=\"root=/dev/sda1\"" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2156 boot-installer.xml:2250 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You cannot pass any boot parameters directly from the CFE prompt. Instead, " "you have to edit the /boot/sibyl.conf file on the TFTP " "server and add your parameters to the extra_args " "variable." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2175 boot-installer.xml:2237 #, no-c-format msgid "Cobalt TFTP Booting" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2176 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Strictly speaking, Cobalt does not use TFTP but NFS to boot. You need to " "install an NFS server and put the installer files in /nfsroot. When you boot your Cobalt, you have to press the left and the " "right cursor buttons at the same time and the machine will boot via the " "network from NFS. It will then display several options on the display. There " "are the following two installation methods:" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2186 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Via SSH (default): In this case, the installer will configure the network " "via DHCP and start an SSH server. It will then display a random password and " "other login information (such as the IP address) on the Cobalt LCD. When you " "connect to the machine with an SSH client you can start with the " "installation." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2195 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Via serial console: Using a null modem cable, you can connect to the serial " "port of your Cobalt machine (using 115200 bps) and perform the installation " "this way. This option is not available on Qube 2700 (Qube1) machines since " "they have no serial port." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2238 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You cannot pass any boot parameters directly. Instead, you have to edit the " "/nfsroot/default.colo file on the NFS server and add " "your parameters to the args variable." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2266 #, no-c-format msgid "s390 Limitations" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2267 #, no-c-format msgid "" "In order to run the installation system a working network setup and ssh " "session is needed on S/390." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2272 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The booting process starts with a network setup that prompts you for several " "network parameters. If the setup is successful, you will login to the system " "by starting an ssh session which will launch the standard installation " "system." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2283 #, no-c-format msgid "s390 Boot Parameters" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2284 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On S/390 you can append boot parameters in the parm file. This file can " "either be in ASCII or EBCDIC format. A sample parm file parmfile." "debian is provided with the installation images." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2344 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Currently, the only &arch-title; subarchitectures that support CD-ROM " "booting are PReP (though not all systems) and New World PowerMacs. On " "PowerMacs, hold the c key, or else the combination of " "Command, Option, Shift, " "and Delete keys together while booting to boot from the CD-" "ROM." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2353 #, no-c-format msgid "" "OldWorld PowerMacs will not boot a Debian CD, because OldWorld computers " "relied on a Mac OS ROM CD boot driver to be present on the CD, and a free-" "software version of this driver is not available. All OldWorld systems have " "floppy drives, so use the floppy drive to launch the installer, and then " "point the installer to the CD for the needed files." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2362 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If your system doesn't boot directly from CD-ROM, you can still use the CD-" "ROM to install the system. On NewWorlds, you can also use an OpenFirmware " "command to boot from the CD-ROM manually. Follow the instructions in for booting from the hard disk, except use the " "path to yaboot on the CD at the OF prompt, such as" msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:2371 #, no-c-format msgid "0 > boot cd:,\\install\\yaboot" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2377 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from Hard Disk" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2398 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting CHRP from OpenFirmware" msgstr "" #. Tag: emphasis #: boot-installer.xml:2402 #, no-c-format msgid "Not yet written." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2407 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting OldWorld PowerMacs from MacOS" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2408 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you set up BootX in , you can use it to " "boot into the installation system. Double click the BootX " "application icon. Click on the Options button and " "select Use Specified RAM Disk. This will give you the " "chance to select the ramdisk.image.gz file. You may " "need to select the No Video Driver checkbox, depending " "on your hardware. Then click the Linux button to shut " "down MacOS and launch the installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2426 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting NewWorld Macs from OpenFirmware" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2427 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You will have already placed the vmlinux, " "initrd.gz, yaboot, and " "yaboot.conf files at the root level of your HFS " "partition in . Restart the computer, and " "immediately (during the chime) hold down the Option, " "Command (cloverleaf/Apple), o, and " "f keys all together. After a few seconds you will be " "presented with the Open Firmware prompt. At the prompt, type " "\n" "0 > boot hd:x,yaboot\n" " replacing x with the " "partition number of the HFS partition where the kernel and yaboot files were " "placed, followed by a &enterkey;. On some machines, you may need to use " "ide0: instead of hd:. In a few " "more seconds you will see a yaboot prompt \n" "boot:\n" " At yaboot's boot: prompt, type " "either install or install video=ofonly followed by a &enterkey;. The video=ofonly " "argument is for maximum compatibility; you can try it if install doesn't work. The Debian installation program should start." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2462 #, no-c-format msgid "Booting from USB memory stick" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2463 #, no-c-format msgid "Currently, NewWorld PowerMac systems are known to support USB booting." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2469 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Make sure you have prepared everything from . To boot a Macintosh system from a USB stick, you will need to use the " "Open Firmware prompt, since Open Firmware does not search USB storage " "devices by default. To get to the prompt, hold down " "Command Option o f all together while booting (see )." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2481 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You will need to work out where the USB storage device appears in the device " "tree, since at the moment ofpath cannot work that out " "automatically. Type dev / ls and devalias at the Open Firmware prompt to get a list of all known devices " "and device aliases. On the author's system with various types of USB stick, " "paths such as usb0/disk, usb0/hub/disk, /pci@f2000000/usb@1b,1/disk@1, and " "/pci@f2000000/usb@1b,1/hub@1/disk@1 work." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2493 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Having worked out the device path, use a command like this to boot the " "installer: \n" "boot usb0/disk:2,\\\\:" "tbxi\n" " The 2 matches the " "Apple_HFS or Apple_Bootstrap partition onto which you copied the boot image " "earlier, and the ,\\\\:tbxi part instructs Open " "Firmware to boot from the file with an HFS file type of \"tbxi\" (i.e. " "yaboot) in the directory previously blessed with " "hattrib -b." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2507 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The system should now boot up, and you should be presented with the " "boot: prompt. Here you can enter optional boot arguments, " "or just hit &enterkey;." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2513 #, no-c-format msgid "" "This boot method is new, and may be difficult to get to work on some " "NewWorld systems. If you have problems, please file an installation report, " "as explained in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2546 #, no-c-format msgid "Currently, PReP and New World PowerMac systems support netbooting." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2550 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On machines with Open Firmware, such as NewWorld Power Macs, enter the boot " "monitor (see ) and use the command " "boot enet:0. PReP and CHRP boxes may have different ways " "of addressing the network. On a PReP machine, you should try boot " "net:server_ipaddr,file," "client_ipaddr. On some PReP systems " "(e.g. Motorola PowerStack machines) the command help boot may give a description of syntax and available options." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2568 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Booting from floppies is supported for &arch-title;, although it is " "generally only applicable for OldWorld systems. NewWorld systems are not " "equipped with floppy drives, and attached USB floppy drives are not " "supported for booting." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2580 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot from the boot-floppy-hfs.img floppy, place it " "in floppy drive after shutting the system down, and before pressing the " "power-on button." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2586 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For those not familiar with Macintosh floppy operations: a floppy placed in " "the machine prior to boot will be the first priority for the system to boot " "from. A floppy without a valid boot system will be ejected, and the machine " "will then check for bootable hard disk partitions." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2593 #, no-c-format msgid "" "After booting, the root.bin floppy is requested. Insert " "the root floppy and press &enterkey;. The installer program is automatically " "launched after the root system has been loaded into memory." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2604 #, no-c-format msgid "PowerPC Boot Parameters" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2605 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Many older Apple monitors used a 640x480 67Hz mode. If your video appears " "skewed on an older Apple monitor, try appending the boot argument " "video=atyfb:vmode:6 , which will select that mode for " "most Mach64 and Rage video hardware. For Rage 128 hardware, this changes to " "video=aty128fb:vmode:6 ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2645 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On machines with OpenBoot, simply enter the boot monitor on the machine " "which is being installed (see ). Use " "the command boot net to boot from a TFTP and RARP " "server, or try boot net:bootp or boot net:" "dhcp to boot from a TFTP and BOOTP or DHCP server." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2699 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Most OpenBoot versions support the boot cdrom command " "which is simply an alias to boot from the SCSI device on ID 6 (or the " "secondary master for IDE based systems)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2711 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Floppy images are currently only available for sparc32, but, for technical " "reasons, not for official releases. (The reason is that they can only be " "built as root, which is not supported by our build daemons.) Look under " "daily built images on the Debian " "Installer project website for links to floppy images for sparc32." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2720 #, no-c-format msgid "" "To boot from floppy on a Sparc, use \n" "Stop-A -> OpenBoot: \"boot floppy\"\n" " Be warned that the newer Sun4u (ultra) " "architecture does not support floppy booting. A typical error message is " "Bad magic number in disk label - Can't open disk label " "package." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2730 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Several Sparcs (e.g. Ultra 10) have an OBP bug that prevents them from " "booting (instead of not supporting booting at all). The appropriate OBP " "update can be downloaded as product ID 106121 from ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2737 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you are booting from the floppy, and you see messages such as " "\n" "Fatal error: Cannot read partition\n" "Illegal or malformed device name\n" " then it is possible that floppy booting is " "simply not supported on your machine." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2749 #, no-c-format msgid "IDPROM Messages" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2750 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you cannot boot because you get messages about a problem with " "IDPROM, then it's possible that your NVRAM battery, which " "holds configuration information for you firmware, has run out. See the " "Sun NVRAM FAQ for more " "information." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2769 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Boot parameters are Linux kernel parameters which are generally used to make " "sure that peripherals are dealt with properly. For the most part, the kernel " "can auto-detect information about your peripherals. However, in some cases " "you'll have to help the kernel a bit." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2776 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If this is the first time you're booting the system, try the default boot " "parameters (i.e., don't try setting parameters) and see if it works " "correctly. It probably will. If not, you can reboot later and look for any " "special parameters that inform the system about your hardware." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2783 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Information on many boot parameters can be found in the Linux BootPrompt HOWTO, " "including tips for obscure hardware. This section contains only a sketch of " "the most salient parameters. Some common gotchas are included below in ." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2792 #, no-c-format msgid "" "When the kernel boots, a message \n" "Memory:availk/totalk " "available\n" " should be emitted early in the process. " "total should match the total amount of RAM, in " "kilobytes. If this doesn't match the actual amount of RAM you have " "installed, you need to use the mem=ram parameter, where ram is " "set to the amount of memory, suffixed with k for kilobytes, " "or m for megabytes. For example, both mem=65536k and mem=64m mean 64MB of RAM." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2808 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you are booting with a serial console, generally the kernel will " "autodetect this (although not on DECstations). If you have a videocard (framebuffer) and a keyboard also attached " "to the computer which you wish to boot via serial console, you may have to " "pass the console=device " "argument to the kernel, where device is your " "serial device, which is usually something like ttyS0." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2821 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For &arch-title; the serial devices are ttya or " "ttyb. Alternatively, set the input-device and output-device OpenPROM variables to " "ttya." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:2832 #, no-c-format msgid "Debian Installer Parameters" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2833 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The installation system recognizes a few additional boot " "parameters With current kernels (2.6.9 or newer) you can " "use 32 command line options and 32 environment options. If these numbers are " "exceeded, the kernel will panic. which may be useful." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2846 #, no-c-format msgid "" "A number of parameters have a short form that helps avoid the " "limitations of the kernel command line options and makes entering the " "parameters easier. If a parameter has a short form, it will be listed in " "brackets behind the (normal) long form. Examples in this manual will " "normally use the short form too." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:2858 #, no-c-format msgid "debconf/priority (priority)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2859 #, no-c-format msgid "This parameter sets the lowest priority of messages to be displayed." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2863 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The default installation uses priority=high. This " "means that both high and critical priority messages are shown, but medium " "and low priority messages are skipped. If problems are encountered, the " "installer adjusts the priority as needed." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2870 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you add priority=medium as boot parameter, you " "will be shown the installation menu and gain more control over the " "installation. When priority=low is used, all messages " "are shown (this is equivalent to the expert boot " "method). With priority=critical, the installation " "system will display only critical messages and try to do the right thing " "without fuss." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:2884 #, no-c-format msgid "DEBIAN_FRONTEND" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2885 #, no-c-format msgid "" "This boot parameter controls the type of user interface used for the " "installer. The current possible parameter settings are: " " DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text " "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt DEBIAN_FRONTEND=gtk " " The default frontend is " "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=newt. " "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text may be preferable for serial " "console installs. Generally, only the newt frontend " "is available on default install media. On architectures that support it, the " "graphical installer uses the gtk frontend." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:2914 #, no-c-format msgid "BOOT_DEBUG" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2915 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Setting this boot parameter to 2 will cause the installer's boot process to " "be verbosely logged. Setting it to 3 makes debug shells available at " "strategic points in the boot process. (Exit the shells to continue the boot " "process.)" msgstr "" #. Tag: userinput #: boot-installer.xml:2924 #, no-c-format msgid "BOOT_DEBUG=0" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2925 #, no-c-format msgid "This is the default." msgstr "" #. Tag: userinput #: boot-installer.xml:2929 #, no-c-format msgid "BOOT_DEBUG=1" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2930 #, no-c-format msgid "More verbose than usual." msgstr "" #. Tag: userinput #: boot-installer.xml:2934 #, no-c-format msgid "BOOT_DEBUG=2" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2935 #, no-c-format msgid "Lots of debugging information." msgstr "" #. Tag: userinput #: boot-installer.xml:2939 #, no-c-format msgid "BOOT_DEBUG=3" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2940 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Shells are run at various points in the boot process to allow detailed " "debugging. Exit the shell to continue the boot." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:2954 #, no-c-format msgid "INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2955 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The value of the parameter is the path to the device to load the Debian " "installer from. For example, INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/floppy/0" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2961 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The boot floppy, which normally scans all floppies it can to find the root " "floppy, can be overridden by this parameter to only look at the one device." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:2971 #, no-c-format msgid "debian-installer/framebuffer (fb)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2972 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some architectures use the kernel framebuffer to offer installation in a " "number of languages. If framebuffer causes a problem on your system you can " "disable the feature by the parameter fb=false. " "Problem symptoms are error messages about bterm or bogl, a blank screen, or " "a freeze within a few minutes after starting the install." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2981 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The video=vga16:off argument may also be used to " "disable the kernel's use of the framebuffer. Such problems have been " "reported on a Dell Inspiron with Mobile Radeon card." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2987 #, no-c-format msgid "Such problems have been reported on the Amiga 1200 and SE/30." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2991 #, no-c-format msgid "Such problems have been reported on hppa." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:2995 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Because of display problems on some systems, framebuffer support is " "disabled by default for &arch-title;. This can result " "in ugly display on systems that do properly support the framebuffer, like " "those with ATI graphical cards. If you see display problems in the " "installer, you can try booting with parameter debian-installer/" "framebuffer=true or fb=true for short." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3009 #, no-c-format msgid "debian-installer/theme (theme)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3010 #, no-c-format msgid "" "A theme determines how the user interface of the installer looks (colors, " "icons, etc.). What themes are available differs per frontend. Currently both " "the newt and gtk frontends only have a dark theme that was " "designed for visually impaired users. Set the theme by booting with " "theme=dark." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3022 #, no-c-format msgid "debian-installer/probe/usb" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3023 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Set to false to prevent probing for USB on boot, if " "that causes problems." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3032 boot-installer.xml:3198 #, no-c-format msgid "netcfg/disable_dhcp" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3033 #, no-c-format msgid "" "By default, the &d-i; automatically probes for network configuration via " "DHCP. If the probe succeeds, you won't have a chance to review and change " "the obtained settings. You can get to the manual network setup only in case " "the DHCP probe fails." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3040 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you have a DHCP server on your local network, but want to avoid it " "because e.g. it gives wrong answers, you can use the parameter " "netcfg/disable_dhcp=true to prevent configuring the " "network with DHCP and to enter the information manually." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3051 #, no-c-format msgid "hw-detect/start_pcmcia" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3052 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Set to false to prevent starting PCMCIA services, if " "that causes problems. Some laptops are well known for this misbehavior." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3062 #, no-c-format msgid "preseed/url (url)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3063 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Specify the url to a preconfiguration file to download and use for " "automating the install. See ." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3072 #, no-c-format msgid "preseed/file (file)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3073 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Specify the path to a preconfiguration file to load for automating the " "install. See ." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3082 #, no-c-format msgid "auto-install/enabled (auto)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3083 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Delay questions that are normally asked before preseeding is possible until " "after the network is configured. See for " "details about using this to automate installs." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3094 #, no-c-format msgid "cdrom-detect/eject" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3095 #, no-c-format msgid "" "By default, before rebooting, &d-i; automatically ejects the optical media " "used during the installation. This can be unnecessary if the system does not " "automatically boot off the CD. In some cases it may even be undesirable, for " "example if the optical drive cannot reinsert the media itself and the user " "is not there to do it manually. Many slot loading, slim-line, and caddy " "style drives cannot reload media automatically." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3104 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Set to false to disable automatic ejection, and be " "aware that you may need to ensure that the system does not automatically " "boot from the optical drive after the initial installation." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3115 #, no-c-format msgid "ramdisk_size" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3116 #, no-c-format msgid "" "This parameter should already be set to a correct value where needed; set it " "only it you see errors during the boot that indicate the ramdisk could not " "be loaded completely. The value is in kB." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3126 #, no-c-format msgid "mouse/left" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3127 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For the gtk frontend (graphical installer), users can switch the mouse to " "left-handed operation by setting this parameter to true." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3136 #, no-c-format msgid "directfb/hw-accel" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3137 #, no-c-format msgid "" "For the gtk frontend (graphical installer), hardware acceleration in " "directfb is disabled by default. To enable it, set this parameter to " "true when booting the installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3147 #, no-c-format msgid "rescue/enable" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3148 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Set to true to enter rescue mode rather than " "performing a normal installation. See ." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3159 #, no-c-format msgid "Using boot parameters to answer questions" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3160 #, no-c-format msgid "" "With some exceptions, a value can be set at the boot prompt for any question " "asked during the installation, though this is only really useful in specific " "cases. General instructions how to do this can be found in . Some specific examples are listed below." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3172 #, no-c-format msgid "debian-installer/locale (locale)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3173 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Can be used to set both the language and country for the installation. This " "will only work if the locale is supported in Debian. For example, use " "locale=de_CH to select German as language and " "Switzerland as country." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3184 #, no-c-format msgid "anna/choose_modules (modules)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3185 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Can be used to automatically load installer components that are not loaded " "by default. Examples of optional components that may be useful are " "openssh-client-udeb (so you can use scp during the installation) and ppp-udeb (which " "supports PPPoE configuration)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3199 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Set to true if you want to disable DHCP and instead " "force static network configuration." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3208 #, no-c-format msgid "mirror/protocol (protocol)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3209 #, no-c-format msgid "" "By default the installer will use the http protocol to download files from " "Debian mirrors and changing that to ftp is not possible during installations " "at normal priority. By setting this parameter to ftp, " "you can force the installer to use that protocol instead. Note that you " "cannot select an ftp mirror from a list, you have to enter the hostname " "manually." msgstr "" #. Tag: term #: boot-installer.xml:3222 #, no-c-format msgid "tasksel:tasksel/first (tasks)" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3223 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Can be used to select tasks that are not available from the interactive task " "list, such as the kde-desktop task. See for additional information." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3237 #, no-c-format msgid "Passing parameters to kernel modules" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3238 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If drivers are compiled into the kernel, you can pass parameters to them as " "described in the kernel documentation. However, if drivers are compiled as " "modules and because kernel modules are loaded a bit differently during an " "installation than when booting an installed system, it is not possible to " "pass parameters to modules as you would normally do. Instead, you need to " "use a special syntax recognized by the installer which will then make sure " "that the parameters are saved in the proper configuration files and will " "thus be used when the modules are actually loaded. The parameters will also " "be propagated automatically to the configuration for the installed system." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3251 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that it is now quite rare that parameters need to be passed to modules. " "In most cases the kernel will be able to probe the hardware present in a " "system and set good defaults that way. However, in some situations it may " "still be needed to set parameters manually." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3258 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The syntax to use to set parameters for modules is: " "\n" "module_name.parameter_name=value\n" " If you need to pass multiple parameters to the " "same or different modules, just repeat this. For example, to set an old 3Com " "network interface card to use the BNC (coax) connector and IRQ 10, you would " "pass:" msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:3268 #, no-c-format msgid "3c509.xcvr=3 3c509.irq=10" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3274 #, no-c-format msgid "Blacklisting kernel modules" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3275 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Sometimes it may be necessary to blacklist a module to prevent it from being " "loaded automatically by the kernel and udev. One reason could be that a " "particular module causes problems with your hardware. The kernel also " "sometimes lists two different drivers for the same device. This can cause " "the device to not work correctly if the drivers conflict or if the wrong " "driver is loaded first." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3284 #, no-c-format msgid "" "You can blacklist a module using the following syntax: " "module_name.blacklist=yes. " "This will cause the module to be blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/" "blacklist.local both during the installation and for the " "installed system." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3292 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that a module may still be loaded by the installation system itself. " "You can prevent that from happening by running the installation in expert " "mode and unselecting the module from the list of modules displayed during " "the hardware detection phases." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3309 #, no-c-format msgid "Troubleshooting the Installation Process" msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3314 #, no-c-format msgid "CD-ROM Reliability" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3315 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Sometimes, especially with older CD-ROM drives, the installer may fail to " "boot from a CD-ROM. The installer may also — even after booting " "successfully from CD-ROM — fail to recognize the CD-ROM or return " "errors while reading from it during the installation." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3322 #, no-c-format msgid "" "There are a many different possible causes for these problems. We can only " "list some common issues and provide general suggestions on how to deal with " "them. The rest is up to you." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3328 #, no-c-format msgid "There are two very simple things that you should try first." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3333 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If the CD-ROM does not boot, check that it was inserted correctly and that " "it is not dirty." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3339 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If the installer fails to recognize a CD-ROM, try just running the option " " Detect and mount CD-ROM a second time. Some DMA related issues with older CD-ROM drives " "are known to be resolved in this way." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3349 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If this does not work, then try the suggestions in the subsections below. " "Most, but not all, suggestions discussed there are valid for both CD-ROM and " "DVD, but we'll use the term CD-ROM for simplicity." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3355 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you cannot get the installation working from CD-ROM, try one of the other " "installation methods that are available." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3363 #, no-c-format msgid "Common issues" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3366 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some older CD-ROM drives do not support reading from discs that were burned " "at high speeds using a modern CD writer." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3372 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If your system boots correctly from the CD-ROM, it does not necessarily mean " "that Linux also supports the CD-ROM (or, more correctly, the controller that " "your CD-ROM drive is connected to)." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3379 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some older CD-ROM drives do not work correctly if direct memory " "access (DMA) is enabled." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3390 #, no-c-format msgid "How to investigate and maybe solve issues" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3391 #, no-c-format msgid "If the CD-ROM fails to boot, try the suggestions listed below." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3396 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Check that your BIOS actually supports booting from CD-ROM (older systems " "possibly don't) and that your CD-ROM drive supports the media you are using." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3402 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you downloaded an iso image, check that the md5sum of that image matches " "the one listed for the image in the MD5SUMS file that " "should be present in the same location as where you downloaded the image " "from. \n" "$ md5sum debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso\n" "a20391b12f7ff22ef705cee4059c6b92 debian-testing-i386-netinst." "iso\n" " Next, check that the md5sum of the burned CD-ROM " "matches as well. The following command should work. It uses the size of the " "image to read the correct number of bytes from the CD-ROM." msgstr "" #. Tag: screen #: boot-installer.xml:3415 #, no-c-format msgid "" "$ dd if=/dev/cdrom | \\\n" "> head -c `stat --format=%s debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso` | \\\n" "> md5sum\n" "a20391b12f7ff22ef705cee4059c6b92 -\n" "262668+0 records in\n" "262668+0 records out\n" "134486016 bytes (134 MB) copied, 97.474 seconds, 1.4 MB/s" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3420 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If, after the installer has been booted successfully, the CD-ROM is not " "detected, sometimes simply trying again may solve the problem. If you have " "more than one CD-ROM drive, try changing the CD-ROM to the other drive. If " "that does not work or if the CD-ROM is recognized but there are errors when " "reading from it, try the suggestions listed below. Some basic knowledge of " "Linux is required for this. To execute any of the commands, you should first " "switch to the second virtual console (VT2) and activate the shell there." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3432 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Switch to VT4 or view the contents of /var/log/syslog " "(use nano as editor) to check for any specific error " "messages. After that, also check the output of dmesg." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3439 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Check in the output of dmesg if your CD-ROM drive was " "recognized. You should see something like (the lines do not necessarily have " "to be consecutive): \n" "Probing IDE interface ide1...\n" "hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6112, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive\n" "ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15\n" "hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)\n" "Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20\n" " If you don't see something like that, chances " "are the controller your CD-ROM is connected to was not recognized or may be " "not supported at all. If you know what driver is needed for the controller, " "you can try loading it manually using modprobe." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3453 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Check that there is a device node for your CD-ROM drive under /dev/" ". In the example above, this would be /dev/hdc. There should also be a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3461 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Use the mount command to check if the CD-ROM is already " "mounted; if not, try mounting it manually: \n" "$ mount /dev/hdc /cdrom\n" " Check if there are any error messages after that " "command." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3471 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Check if DMA is currently enabled: \n" "$ cd /proc/ide/hdc\n" "$ grep using_dma settings\n" "using_dma 1 0 1 rw\n" " A 1 in the first column after " "using_dma means it is enabled. If it is, try disabling " "it: \n" "$ echo -n \"using_dma:0\" >settings\n" " Make sure that you are in the directory for the " "device that corresponds to your CD-ROM drive." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3486 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If there are any problems during the installation, try checking the " "integrity of the CD-ROM using the option near the bottom of the installer's " "main menu. This option can also be used as a general test if the CD-ROM can " "be read reliably." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3501 #, no-c-format msgid "Floppy Disk Reliability" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3503 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The biggest problem for people using floppy disks to install Debian seems to " "be floppy disk reliability." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3508 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The boot floppy is the floppy with the worst problems, because it is read by " "the hardware directly, before Linux boots. Often, the hardware doesn't read " "as reliably as the Linux floppy disk driver, and may just stop without " "printing an error message if it reads incorrect data. There can also be " "failures in the driver floppies, most of which indicate themselves with a " "flood of messages about disk I/O errors." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3517 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you are having the installation stall at a particular floppy, the first " "thing you should do is write the image to a different " "floppy and see if that solves the problem. Simply reformatting the old " "floppy may not be sufficient, even if it appears that the floppy was " "reformatted and written with no errors. It is sometimes useful to try " "writing the floppy on a different system." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3526 #, no-c-format msgid "" "One user reports he had to write the images to floppy three times before one worked, and then everything was fine with the " "third floppy." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3532 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Normally you should not have to download a floppy image again, but if you " "are experiencing problems it is always useful to verify that the images were " "downloaded correctly by verifying their md5sums." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3538 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Other users have reported that simply rebooting a few times with the same " "floppy in the floppy drive can lead to a successful boot. This is all due to " "buggy hardware or firmware floppy drivers." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3547 #, no-c-format msgid "Boot Configuration" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3549 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you have problems and the kernel hangs during the boot process, doesn't " "recognize peripherals you actually have, or drives are not recognized " "properly, the first thing to check is the boot parameters, as discussed in " "." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3556 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Often, problems can be solved by removing add-ons and peripherals, and then " "trying booting again. Internal modems, sound cards, and " "Plug-n-Play devices can be especially problematic." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3562 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you have a large amount of memory installed in your machine, more than " "512M, and the installer hangs when booting the kernel, you may need to " "include a boot argument to limit the amount of memory the kernel sees, such " "as mem=512m." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3573 boot-installer.xml:3658 #, no-c-format msgid "Common &arch-title; Installation Problems" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3574 #, no-c-format msgid "" "There are some common installation problems that can be solved or avoided by " "passing certain boot parameters to the installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3579 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some systems have floppies with inverted DCLs. If you receive " "errors reading from the floppy, even when you know the floppy is good, try " "the parameter floppy=thinkpad." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3585 #, no-c-format msgid "" "On some systems, such as the IBM PS/1 or ValuePoint (which have ST-506 disk " "drivers), the IDE drive may not be properly recognized. Again, try it first " "without the parameters and see if the IDE drive is recognized properly. If " "not, determine your drive geometry (cylinders, heads, and sectors), and use " "the parameter hd=cylinders," "heads,sectors." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3594 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you have a very old machine, and the kernel hangs after saying " "Checking 'hlt' instruction..., then you " "should try the no-hlt boot argument, which disables " "this test." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3601 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If your screen begins to show a weird picture while the kernel boots, eg. " "pure white, pure black or colored pixel garbage, your system may contain a " "problematic video card which does not switch to the framebuffer mode " "properly. Then you can use the boot parameter fb=false " "video=vga16:off to disable the framebuffer console. Only a " "reduced set of languages will be available during the installation due to " "limited console features. See for details." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3615 #, no-c-format msgid "System Freeze During the PCMCIA Configuration Phase" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3616 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some laptop models produced by Dell are known to crash when PCMCIA device " "detection tries to access some hardware addresses. Other laptops may display " "similar problems. If you experience such a problem and you don't need PCMCIA " "support during the installation, you can disable PCMCIA using the " "hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false boot parameter. You can " "then configure PCMCIA after the installation is completed and exclude the " "resource range causing the problems." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3626 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Alternatively, you can boot the installer in expert mode. You will then be " "asked to enter the resource range options your hardware needs. For example, " "if you have one of the Dell laptops mentioned above, you should enter " "exclude port 0x800-0x8ff here. There is also a list " "of some common resource range options in the System resource " "settings section of the PCMCIA HOWTO. Note that you have to omit the " "commas, if any, when you enter this value in the installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3643 #, no-c-format msgid "System Freeze while Loading USB Modules" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3644 #, no-c-format msgid "" "The kernel normally tries to install USB modules and the USB keyboard driver " "in order to support some non-standard USB keyboards. However, there are some " "broken USB systems where the driver hangs on loading. A possible workaround " "may be disabling the USB controller in your mainboard BIOS setup. Another " "option is passing the debian-installer/probe/usb=false parameter at the boot prompt, which will prevent the modules from " "being loaded." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3659 #, no-c-format msgid "There are some common installation problems that are worth mentioning." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3665 #, no-c-format msgid "Misdirected video output" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3666 #, no-c-format msgid "" "It is fairly common for &arch-title; to have two video cards in one machine, " "for example an ATI card and a Sun Creator 3D. In some cases, this may result " "in the video output getting misdirected soon after the system boots. In " "typical cases, the display will only show: \n" "Remapping the kernel... done\n" "Booting Linux...\n" " To work around this, you can either pull out one " "of the video cards, or disable the one not used during the OpenProm boot " "phase using a kernel parameter. For example, to disable an ATI card, you " "should boot the installer with video=atyfb:off." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3680 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that you may also have to manually add this parameter to the silo " "configuration (edit /target/etc/silo.conf before " "rebooting) and, if you installed X11, modify the video driver in /" "etc/X11/xorg.conf." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3691 #, no-c-format msgid "Failure to Boot or Install from CD-ROM" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3692 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Some Sparc systems are notoriously difficult to boot from CD-ROM and even if " "they do boot, there may be inexplicable failures during the installation. " "Most problems have been reported with SunBlade systems." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3698 #, no-c-format msgid "We recommend to install such systems by netbooting the installer." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3707 #, no-c-format msgid "Interpreting the Kernel Startup Messages" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3709 #, no-c-format msgid "" "During the boot sequence, you may see many messages in the form " "can't find something, or something not " "present, can't initialize " "something, or even " "this driver release depends on something. Most of these messages are harmless. You see " "them because the kernel for the installation system is built to run on " "computers with many different peripheral devices. Obviously, no one computer " "will have every possible peripheral device, so the operating system may emit " "a few complaints while it looks for peripherals you don't own. You may also " "see the system pause for a while. This happens when it is waiting for a " "device to respond, and that device is not present on your system. If you " "find the time it takes to boot the system unacceptably long, you can create " "a custom kernel later (see )." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3734 #, no-c-format msgid "Reporting Installation Problems" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3735 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you get through the initial boot phase but cannot complete the install, " "the menu option Save debug logs may be helpful. " "It lets you store system error logs and configuration information from the " "installer to a floppy, or download them using a web browser. This " "information may provide clues as to what went wrong and how to fix it. If " "you are submitting a bug report, you may want to attach this information to " "the bug report." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3746 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Other pertinent installation messages may be found in /var/log/ during the installation, and /var/log/installer/ after the computer has been booted into the installed system." msgstr "" #. Tag: title #: boot-installer.xml:3757 #, no-c-format msgid "Submitting Installation Reports" msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3758 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you still have problems, please submit an installation report. We also " "encourage installation reports to be sent even if the installation is " "successful, so that we can get as much information as possible on the " "largest number of hardware configurations." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3765 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Note that your installation report will be published in the Debian Bug " "Tracking System (BTS) and forwarded to a public mailing list. Make sure that " "you use an e-mail address that you do not mind being made public." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3771 #, no-c-format msgid "" "If you have a working Debian system, the easiest way to send an installation " "report is to install the installation-report and " "reportbug packages (aptitude install " "installation-report reportbug), configure reportbug as explained in , and run the " "command reportbug installation-report." msgstr "" #. Tag: para #: boot-installer.xml:3781 #, no-c-format msgid "" "Alternatively you can use this template when filling out installation " "reports, and file the report as a bug report against the " "installation-reports pseudo package, by sending it to " "submit@bugs.debian.org. \n" "Package: installation-reports\n" "\n" "Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>\n" "Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>\n" "Date: <Date and time of the install>\n" "\n" "Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>\n" "Processor:\n" "Memory:\n" "Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>\n" "\n" "Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:\n" "\n" "Base System Installation Checklist:\n" "[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it\n" "\n" "Initial boot: [ ]\n" "Detect network card: [ ]\n" "Configure network: [ ]\n" "Detect CD: [ ]\n" "Load installer modules: [ ]\n" "Detect hard drives: [ ]\n" "Partition hard drives: [ ]\n" "Install base system: [ ]\n" "Clock/timezone setup: [ ]\n" "User/password setup: [ ]\n" "Install tasks: [ ]\n" "Install boot loader: [ ]\n" "Overall install: [ ]\n" "\n" "Comments/Problems:\n" "\n" "<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments\n" " and ideas you had during the initial install.>\n" " In the bug report, describe what the problem is, " "including the last visible kernel messages in the event of a kernel hang. " "Describe the steps that you did which brought the system into the problem " "state." msgstr ""