Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?> CD
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/i386/iso-cd/debian-506-i386-CD-1.iso
Date: <Date and time of the install> yesterday
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> acer aspire 5732ZG
Processor: pentium dual core
Memory:
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O ]
Detect network card: [E ]
Configure network: [E ]
Detect CD: [O ]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Detect hard drives: [O ]
Partition hard drives: [O/E ]
Install base system: [O ]
Clock/timezone setup: [O ]
User/password setup: [O ]
Install tasks: [O ]
Install boot loader: [E ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.> Graphical
install. Apart from not recognizing atheros AR8132 and
AR5B93 Ethernet and Wireless card automatically, the real problem was
this: I managed to correctly choose my USB Stick for automatic
partitioning as I wanted and went ahead sucessfully until installing
the bootloader, I wanted it on the USB Stick rather than harddrive,
and to make sure to choose the right device designation for it, I went
back to menu and entered Partition hard drives again to look it up,
that's when trouble commenced: when I went back to the menu, I
couldn't re-enter installing the boot loader and was kicked back to
partitioning hard drives, when I finally chose to re-write the
partition table in order to be let out of the circle, after doing so,
installing the bootloader set in automatically without any prompts
(probably because that's where I had interrupted the journey forward
in installation, *but* in fact I hadn't chosen where to put it yet!)
and terminated with an error message to the respect that it couldn't
be installed, sorry, can't be more precise, but I think there was not
much more info. I abandoned installation.
