mountfloppy package not installing

Bug #29810 reported by daemonicpenguin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
debian-installer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

I'm trying to set up an automated preseed install using the preseed/file=/floppy/preseed.cfg installer option. The problem is, the mounting of the floppy is accomplished with a script in the mountfloppy package. This package exists on the install media (Ubuntu 5.1 install), but it's not being installed as part of the process.

The installer will then complain that it can't find my preseed file. At which point, I can drop to a shell, manually mount the drive, and attempt to reload the config from the installer.

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daemonicpenguin (daemonicpenguin) wrote :
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Attached are the contents of syslog. On about line 522, you see that a script /var/lib/dpkg/info/file-preseed.postinst makes a call to 'mountfloppy', which isn't found.

Jan 26 22:30:19 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1ubuntu22)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1ubuntu22)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-9-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ff75000 (usable)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff75000 - 000000000ff77000 (ACPI NVS)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff77000 - 000000000ff98000 (ACPI data)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff98000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] 255MB LOWMEM available.
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 65397
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 61301 pages, LIFO batch:31
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] DMI 2.3 present.
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000feb90
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd4f6
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd52e
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffd0a4e
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd5a2
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd60e
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: ASF! (v016 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd636
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[...

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Breezy's debian-installer didn't include mountfloppy in the initrds it built. I think this was an unfortunate result of desynchronisation between our release cycle and Debian's, which I didn't notice until it was too late. However, Dapper's debian-installer does include mountfloppy in its initrds, which should fix this bug.

Changed in debian-installer:
assignee: nobody → kamion
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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